Palatinate-Sulzbach

Territory of the Holy Roman Empire

The County Palatine of Pfalz- Sulzbach, also known as the Duchy of Pfalz- Sulzbach, was an independent, imperial immediacy principality of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, which had emerged by the Neuburger main comparison of 1656 from the Duchy of Wittelsbach Palatinate -Neuburg. However, it never had a seat in the Fürstenkolleg the Reichstag, as it formally was only a branch line of the Wittelsbach dynasty, which was never formally invested with it. The Duchy comprised the royal residence Sulzbach associated with the district court and the rule Breitenstein, the Office Pleystein (since 1764), the neuburgische half of the official Community Park stone - willow (since 1714) and the Pflegamt raft with the court Vohenstrauß.

History

The dynasty of the Counts of Sulzbach, which was influential and powerful in the 11th and 12th century, died from 1305, which the possession was for the most part to the Wittelsbach family. Sulzbach was in 1505 part of the boys Palatinate. After Count Palatine Otto Heinrich I. had inherited from the Palatinate Neuburg, he joined the Neuburg and Sulzbach area in the Heidelberg contract of 1557 from Wolfgang von Pfalz -Zweibrücken. Wolfgang gave Sulzbach first as an appanage to his son, the Count Palatine Otto Heinrich II, who lived from 1582 at a local chateau. After this had died in 1604 without heirs, Sulzbach but fell back to Wolfgang's eldest son, the interim founder of modern Neuburger line, Philipp Ludwig. With his death in 1614 Sulzbach Count Palatine August was again as appanage, this time for his younger son, separated, but remained under suzerainty of the main line. His son Christian August gained in Neuburg main comparison of 1656 as Duke 's sovereignty Pfalz- Sulzbach. 1742 died from the main line of Neuburg Palatinate Count, whereby the branch Sulzbach with Karl Theodor who succeeded there. 1777 was also the Bavarian Wittelsbach heir, so that under Karl Theodor major countries Wittelsbach Palatinate and Bavaria were united for the first time in many centuries back. After the extinction of the line Sulzbach 1799 its territories fell again to Palatinate - Birkenfeld - Bischweiler -Zweibrücken.

The Duchy Pfalz-Neuburg/Sulzbach was repealed in 1808 and was now completely in the new Kingdom of Bavaria on. In the country's division in 1837 Bavaria Neuburg was merged with Swabia to a Government District (District ).

Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate -Sulzbach

Other family members

  • Elisabeth Auguste of the Palatinate- Sulzbach (1721-1794), by marriage Electress of the Palatinate and of Bavaria
  • Ernestine Theodora von Pfalz -Sulzbach (1697-1775), prioress of the Carmelite convent in Neuburg
  • Franziska Christine von Pfalz- Sulzbach (1696-1776), Abbess of the pen Food
  • Hedwig of the Palatinate- Sulzbach (1650-1681), Archduchess of Austria; Duchess of Saxe- Lauenburg
  • Johann Ludwig von Pfalz- Sulzbach (1625-1649), Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War
  • Joseph Karl von Pfalz- Sulzbach (1694-1729), Prince of Pfalz- Sulzbach
  • Florinus Philipp of the Palatinate -Sulzbach (1630-1703), Count Palatine of the Palatinate and Imperial Field Marshal
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