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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 .
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.
At the time there were two surviving branches of the Wittelsbach family: Palatinate-Zweibrücken (headed by Maximilian Joseph) and Palatinate-Birkenfeld (headed by Count Palatine William). Maximilian Joseph inherited Charles Thedore's title of Elector of Bavaria, while William was compensated with the title of Duke in Bavaria.
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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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 ...
Count Palatine of Neumarkt, governor of the Upper Palatinate. Wolfgang Prince of the Palatinate Palatine aka Wittelsbach (31 Oct 1494 - 2 Apr 1558)
BARD THOMPSON. Emory University. 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 1563,1 containing the Heidelberg Catechism and the Palatinate liturgy, introduced a perma-. nent Reformed tradition to Germany.
