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Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (Jan Wellem in Low German, English: John William; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Neuburg (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Berg (1679–1716), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham (1707–1714).
Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (Jan Wellem in Low German, English: John William; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Neuburg (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Berg (1679–1716), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham (1707–1714).
Johann Wilhelm II (1658 –1716) Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke Palatine of Neuburg/Danube (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Berg (1679–1716), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham (1707–1714). From 1697 onwards Johann Wilhelm was also Count of Megen. Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Grand Master of the Order of St Hubert.
Charles Philip succeeded his brother Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine on his death in 1716. He moved the Palatinate's capital from Heidelberg to the new city of Mannheim in 1720, but not before promoting his favorite court jester, Perkeo of Heidelberg, to be in charge of the castle's wine stocks.
- 8 June 1716 – 31 December 1742
- House of Wittelsbach
German, 1658 - 1716. von der Pfalz, Johann Wilhelm Elector Palatine; von Pfalz-Neuburg, Johann Wilhelm. Works of Art.
Johann Wilhelm succeeded as elector in 1690, changing his residence first to Düsseldorf, then back to Heidelberg and finally Mannheim in 1720. Like his father, he was a Catholic, which under the 1555 Peace of Augsburg meant the Protestant majority in the Palatinate was theoretically obliged to convert to Catholicism.
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.
