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Frederick III of Simmern, the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (14 February 1515 – 16 October 1576) was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach, branch Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. He was a son of John II of Simmern and inherited the Palatinate from the childless Elector Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine ( Ottheinrich ) in 1559.
Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, ( German: Ottheinrich; 10 April 1502, Amberg [1] – 12 February 1559, Heidelberg) [2] a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1557 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Rupert, Count Palatine, third son of Philip, Elector Palatine ...
Calvinism. Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine ( German: Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and Elisabeth of Hesse, [1] called "Frederick the Righteous" ( German: Friedrich Der Aufrichtige; French: Frédéric IV le juste ).
May 2, 2023 · To secure his position, Henry arranged political marriages for his six children. His eldest daughter, Blanche, was earmarked for Louis III, Elector Palatine, from the German House of Wittelsbach. He was the Prince Elector of the Palatine region of Germany which was an outpost of the Holy Roman Empire.
May 23, 2018 · Unfortunately, the marriage of the Palatine princess "Liselotte" (Elisabeth Charlotte, princess palatine and the duchess of Orleans) into the French royal house later provided a casus belli upon the death of the childless Elector Charles II (ruled 1680 – 1685) and the contested succession of Philip William (ruled 1685 – 1690) of Palatinate ...
The Bavarian elector Charles Albert (died 1745) was Holy Roman emperor, as Charles VII, from 1742. With his son Maximilian III Joseph the Bavarian line of Wittelsbachs died out in 1777. The elector Palatine, Charles Theodore , also a Wittelsbach, then succeeded to Bavaria, by virtue of a dynastic treaty of 1724.
