Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern

Louis Philippe ( born November 23, 1602 Heidelberg, † January 8, 1655 in Crossen ) was the son of the Elector Frederick IV and younger brother of the " Winter King " Frederick V and after his death in 1632 guardian of the Elector of the Palatinate and administrator.

Life

The younger brother of Frederick V. was loud paternal Testament simmering, the sponheim'schen parts of the territory and the Principality of simmering, but which had to fall back on the electoral line to an agreement of 1653. Louis Philippe succeeded his brother to Bohemia and held the Bishopric of Breslau for the short time until the Battle of White Mountain.

Although Emperor Ferdinand II had recognized his innocence at the Bohemian adventure, its lands were occupied by the Spaniards. The intervention of Sweden in the Thirty Years' War brought him back simmering and then revoking as a Swedish administrator of the Palatinate, but he had already retire in 1634 after the Swedish defeat at Nördlingen to Frankenthal and Sedan. Only by the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia Louis Philippe was reinstated in his country.

Louis Philippe was incorporated in 1624 as " The Dangerous " in the Fruitbearing society. After 1646 he was returned to his residence city of Kaiserslautern, he took 14 members on the Fruitbearing society.

Progeny

Louis Philippe married 1631 Marie Eleonore ( 1607-1675 ), daughter of the Elector Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg, with whom he had the following children:

  • Karl Friedrich (1633-1635)
  • Gustav Ludwig (1634-1635)
  • Karl Philipp (1635-1636)
  • Ludwig Kasimir (1636-1652)
  • Elisabeth Marie Charlotte (1638-1664)
  • Ludwig Heinrich Moritz (1640-1674), Count Palatine of simmering
  • Luise Sophie Eleonore (1642-1643)
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