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Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine. Wolfgang of the Palatinate (nicknamed the Elder; 31 October 1494 in Heidelberg – 2 April 1558 in Neumarkt) was a German nobleman from the House of Wittelsbach. He was Count Palatine of Neumarkt and governor of the Upper Palatinate .
Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken ( German: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken; 26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532.
Palatinate-Neuburg ( German: Herzogtum Pfalz-Neuburg) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, founded in 1505 by a branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Its capital was Neuburg an der Donau. Its area was about 2,750 km 2, with a population of some 100,000.
Palatinate, in German history, the lands of the count palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between two small territorial clusters: the Rhenish, or Lower, Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate.
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Thereafter, Christopher of Wiirtemberg and Wolfgang of Zweibriicken began a systematic effort to exclude the Palatinate from the Peace of Augsburg. In January, 1566, Frederick received the announcement and agenda for an Imperial Diet, scheduled for Augsburg in March.
The ground and provocation of the German Reformed Church are first considerations in the appreciation of its character. It is under-stood that the Palatinate Church Order of 1563/ containing the Heidelberg Catechism and the Palatinate liturgy, introduced a perma-nent Reformed tradition to Germany. It should also be understood that that kirchenordnung represented the effort of a Melanchthonian ...
Wolfgang of the Palatinate (nicknamed the Elder; 31 October 1494 in Heidelberg - 2 April 1558 in Neumarkt) was a German nobleman from the House of Wittelsbach. He was Count Palatine of Neumarkt and governor of the Upper Palatinate .
