Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
August von Pfalz- Sulzbach ( born October 2, 1582 in Neuburg an der Donau, † August 14, 1632 in Weinheim) was Count Palatine and Duke of Sulzbach.
Life
He was the third son of Philipp Ludwig von Pfalz -Neuburg (1547-1614) from his marriage to Anna (1552-1632), daughter of Duke William of Jülich -Cleves -Berg.
His education began in 1609 at the University of Tübingen. Then he made a grand tour through Italy, England, France, Sweden and numerous German princely courts. After the death of his father in 1614 he shared with his brother Wolfgang Wilhelm heritage. Wolfgang Wilhelm received Neuburg, August Sulzbach. Conflicts arose when his brother converted to Catholicism and wanted to take the Counter-Reformation in Sulzbach. August was a devout Lutheran and vigorously opposed.
In 1618, he founded a school in Sulzbach. In 1630 he traveled to Leipzig, where the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf was staying with his army. Then he went with the king by Germany, but he must have earned his trust. 1632, the king sent him from Nuremberg to Saxony to dissuade the local Elector Johann Georg I of an alliance with Wallenstein. Following the successful negotiations he died on August 14 in 1632.
Family
On July 17, 1620 he married in Husum Hedwig ( 1603-1657 ), daughter of Duke Johann Adolf of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp and had with her the following children:
- Anna Sophie (1621-1675)
- Christian August (1622-1708), Count Palatine of Sulzbach
- Adolf Friedrich (1623-1624)
- Sophie Auguste (1624-1682)
- Johann Ludwig (1625-1649), Swedish General
- Florinus Philipp (1630-1703), Imperial Field Marshal
- Dorothea Susanne (1631-1632)