Philip, Elector Palatine

Philip the Righteous, also called Philip the noble (* July 14, 1448 in Heidelberg, † February 28, 1508 in Germersheim ), from the family of Wittelsbach was Count Palatine and 1476-1508 Elector of the Palatinate.

Family

Origin

Philip's parents were Elector Ludwig IV and Margaret of Savoy. Because of their already lengthy childlessness they undertook in 1447 a personal pilgrimage to the grave of St.. Philipp in Zell ( Zeller Valley ) west of Worms. As they awaited the heir to the throne was born in 1448, they gave him the name in honor of St. Philip. Because of the birth of the prince became St. Philip of cell -regional awareness and advanced to emergency responders in childlessness or child wishes.

Become one year old orphan, Prince Philip came under the tutelage of his uncle, the Elector Frederick I, who adopted it later. On April 17, 1474 married in Amberg Philip and Margaret of Bavaria -Landshut ( 1456-1501 ), daughter of Duke Louis IX. of Bavaria- Landshut and his wife Princess Amalie of Saxony ( Amberger wedding). The couple Philip and Margaret has been put on the wedding fountain at Amberger marketplace a monument.

Progeny

From this marriage 14 children were born:

  • Louis V (1478-1544), Elector of the Palatinate
  • Philipp (1480-1541), Bishop of Freising and Naumburg
  • Ruprecht (1481-1504)
  • Frederick II (1482-1556), Elector of the Palatinate
  • Elisabeth (1483-1522)
  • Georg (1486-1529), Bishop of Speyer
  • Heinrich (1486-1552), bishop of Utrecht, Freising and Worms
  • Johann III. (1487-1538), Bishop of Regensburg
  • Amalie (1490-1524)
  • Barbara (1491-1505)
  • Helene (1493-1524)
  • Wolfgang (1494-1558), Count Palatine of Neumarkt, governor of the Upper Palatinate
  • Otto Heinrich ( * / † 1496 )
  • Catherine (1499-1526), abbess in Neuburg am Neckar

Reign

With his marriage Philip initially received the Upper Palatinate as dominion. After his adoptive father Friedrich I. had died in 1476, Philip took over beside the Palatinate and the electoral dignity. 1481 he took the humanist Johann von Dalberg, Bishop of Worms, to the University of Heidelberg. 1499 fell Pfalz- Mosbach and Pfalz- Neumarkt back to the Palatinate. After the Landshut War of Succession, in the Philippines in 1504 implicated by his third son Ruprecht, 1505 had several areas of the Palatinate, which lay in what is now Bavaria, be assigned. Philip died in 1508 Germersheim and was buried in Heidelberg Church of Holy Spirit. His successor as the Elector was his eldest son, Louis V.

Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou Louis V, Elector Palatine Sibylle of Bavaria Philip of the Palatinate Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising) Frederick II, Elector Palatine William III, Landgrave of Hesse Philip I, Margrave of Baden George of the Palatinate John III of the Palatinate Amalie of the Palatinate George I, Duke of Pomerania Helen of the Palatinate Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg Wolfgang of the Palatinate Neuburg Abbey House of Palatinate-Neumarkt Neue Deutsche Biographie Lexikon des Mittelalters Integrated Authority File
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