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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 ...
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine ( German: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680), was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charles I of England . After living the first half of his life in exile during the German Thirty Years' War and ...
Frederick V's territories and his position as elector were transferred to the Duke of Bavaria, Maximilian I, of a distantly related branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Although technically Elector Palatine, he was known as the Elector of Bavaria.
Frederick I the Victorious in a baroque engraving. Frederick I, the Victorious (der Siegreiche) (1 August 1425, Heidelberg – 12 December 1476, Heidelberg) was a Count Palatine of the Rhine and Elector Palatine from the House of Wittelsbach in 1451–1476. Biography. He was a son of Louis III, Elector Palatine and his second wife Matilda of Savoy.
Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Mother. Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. Charles II ( German: Karl II.; 10 April 1651, in Heidelberg – 26 May 1685, in Heidelberg) was Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685. [1] He was the son of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine of the House of Wittelsbach, and Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel .
Rupert (III) of Germany (1352 – 1410) Elector Palatine from 1398 and German King from 1400. Knight of the Garter. Louis III (1378 –1436) Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Louis IV (1424–1449) Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Frederick I, the Victorious (1425–1476) Elector Palatine of the Rhine, Ancestor of the morganatic House of Löwenstein ...
Bibliography 1949 Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868.
