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El Electorado del Palatinado o Palatinado Electoral ( Kurpfalz) es la denominación del territorio de ese príncipe, que fue de hecho un Estado independiente hasta 1803. La capital fue primero Heidelberg y luego, a partir de 1720, Mannheim. Como entidad territorial era una agregación de dominios espacialmente discontinuos.
The Elector Palatine, now based in Heidelberg, adopted Lutheranism in the 1530s; when the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.
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 ...
The elector had already witnessed such a reconciliation following the end of the Second Bishops’ War in late-1640, which resulted in 10,000 Scottish troops being pledged to the Palatine cause until the force was diverted to suppress the Irish Rebellion. 10 Charles Louis therefore had no cause to suspect that the outbreak of hostilities in August 1642 would result in any greater political ...
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 ...
They won the right to participate in the election of the emperor, a right confirmed by the Golden Bull of 1356, which made the elector palatine the chief secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. The Palatinate remained Roman Catholic during the early Reformation but adopted Calvinism in the 1560s under Elector Frederick III.
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 ...
