Eduard of the Palatinate

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Prince Edward of the Palatinate

Eduard von der Pfalz (born October 5, 1625 in The Hague , † March 13, 1663 in Paris ) was a Palatinate prince from the Pfalz-Simmern line .

Life

Eduard was a son of Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) from his marriage to Elisabeth Stuart (1596–1662), daughter of King James I of England . Eduard was born in The Hague, where the "Winter King" fled with his family after losing the Bohemian royal crown.

He was brought up Calvinist , but converted to Catholicism in 1645, to the annoyance of his mother, so that he could marry Anna Gonzaga (1616–1684), a daughter of Carlo I Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua, Montferrat, Nevers and Rethel, whom he could marry had met on a trip to the French court. The marriage was secretly closed on April 24, 1645 and the change of faith caused some loss of face for Edward's brother, the Protestant elector Karl I. Ludwig von der Pfalz . Because of his conversion, against which his Protestant relatives took decisive action, Eduard turned to the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn , who should represent his inheritance and legal claims.

At the end of 1657 Edward's sister Luise Hollandine fled to France, who also changed to the Catholic faith through the influence of her brother and his wife. Eduard lived in Paris until his death, where he died at the age of 37.

As a result of his conversion, Eduard was excluded from the succession in the Palatinate. Through the Act of Settlement of 1701, the son of Edward's sister Sophie von der Pfalz was crowned King of Great Britain as George I in 1714 . Edward's daughters, as members of the Catholic faith, were thus excluded from the English throne. Eduard himself was accepted into the English Order of the Garter in 1649, despite his religion .

progeny

Eduard had the following children from his marriage:

⚭ 1671 Prince Karl Theodor zu Salm (1645–1710), imperial field marshal
⚭ 1663 Henri III. Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1643–1709)
⚭ 1668 Duke Johann Friedrich of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1625–1679)

literature

  • Anna Wendland : Count Palatine Eduard and Princess Luise Hollandine, two converts of the Palatinate-Simmern Kurhaus. In: New Heidelberg Yearbooks. 16, 1909, pp. 44-80.
  • Ludwig Häusser : History of the Rhenish Palatinate according to its political, ecclesiastical and literary conditions. 2nd edition. Volume 2. Mohr, Heidelberg 1856, p. 517, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Petko: The phenomenon of princely conversions - effects, backgrounds, affected. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-83924-2 , p. 10.
  2. ^ Kuno Fischer : History of the modern philosophy. Volume 2: Leibniz and his school. 2nd completely reworked edition. Ms. Bassermann, Heidelberg 1867, p. 234.
  3. ↑ Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture. A manual on the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-24505-4 , p. 102 (also: Frankfurt / Main, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2005).
personal data
SURNAME Eduard of the Palatinate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eduard von Pfalz-Simmern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of the Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1663
Place of death Paris