Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate

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Dorothea Sophie von Pfalz-Neuburg, Duchess of Parma, artist unknown, around 1700, oil on canvas, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf

Dorothea Sophie von der Pfalz (* July 5, 1670 in Neuburg an der Donau , † September 15, 1748 in Parma ) was a princess from the Neuburg line of the House of Wittelsbach and by marriage Duchess of Parma and Piacenza .

Life

Dorothea Sophie was a daughter of Elector Philipp Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1615–1690) from his second marriage to Elisabeth Amalie (1635–1709), daughter of Landgrave Georg II of Hesse-Darmstadt . Among their sixteen siblings were the Electors Johann Wilhelm and Karl Philipp von der Pfalz, as well as the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Franz Ludwig . Her eldest sister Eleanor was the wife of Emperor Leopold I. Other sisters were queens of Spain and Portugal (see below).

On September 17, 1690, she married Hereditary Prince Odoardo II. Farnese of Parma (1666–1693) in Parma , who died before his father.

Dorothea married on December 7, 1695 in Parma with papal dispensation the brother of her husband Francesco I Maria Farnese of Parma (1678–1727), who had succeeded his father as Duke of Parma and Piacenza in 1694 and not because of his enormous obesity was able to father children. That is why the great powers decided in 1720 that he would be his stepdaughter and niece and her husband as successors in the Duchy of Parma.

Dorothea Sophie commissioned the Farnesian clock , which was completed in 1725 by Bernardo Facini from Venice. Dorothea Sophia, who was a sister of both the Roman-German Empress and the queens of Spain and Portugal , arranged for her daughter to be married into one of the first families in Europe.

On March 16, 1731, Emperor Charles VI confirmed . Dorothea Sophie together with the Grand Duke of Tuscany as regent of Infante Carlos , who was intended as Duke for Parma, until his arrival in the Duchy in early 1732. The Duchess was buried in the Madonna della Steccata church in Parma.

progeny

In the three years up to the death of her first husband, Dorothea Sophie had two children:

  • Alessandro Ignazio (1691–1693)
  • Elisabetta (1692–1766)
⚭ 1714 King Philip V of Spain (1683–1746). Parma and Piacenza fell to the Spanish crown through their marriage. The descendants of Philip V and Elisabeth Farnese also include the Spanish kings Juan Carlos I and his son Felipe VI.

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Philipp Ludwig (Pfalz-Neuburg) (1547-1614)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wolfgang Wilhelm (Pfalz-Neuburg) (1578–1653)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (1552–1632)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Philipp Wilhelm (Palatinate) (1615–1690)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wilhelm V (Bavaria) (1548–1626)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Magdalene of Bavaria (1587–1628)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Renata of Lorraine (1544–1602)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ludwig V (Hessen-Darmstadt) (1577–1626)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
George II (Hessen-Darmstadt) (1605–1661)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Magdalena of Brandenburg (1582–1616)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elisabeth Amalia of Hessen-Darmstadt (1635–1709)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Johann Georg I (Saxony) (1585–1656)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sophie Eleonore of Saxony (1609–1671)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia (1586–1659)
 
 
 
 
 
 

literature

  • Society for Franconian History: Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 44, Beck, 1981, p. 303 ff.
  • Gustav Prümm: A Profit for Whole Life , Books on Demand, 2009, p. 39
  • Barbara Schildt-Specker: La Serenissima Sposa. The wedding of Dorothea von Pfalz-Neuburg and her trip to Parma in 1690 . In: Landes- und Reichsgeschichte. Festschrift for Hansgeorg Molitor on his 65th birthday. Bielefeld 2004, pp. 221-259

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothea Sophia von Pfalz-Neuburg in pfalzneuburg.de
  2. ^ Franz Dominicus Häberlin, Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi, Eobald Toze, Johann Friedrich Le Bret, Johann Georg Meusel: The general world history prepared by a society of scholars in Germany and Engelland:, Gebauer, 1790, p. 488
  3. New Rhenish Conversations Lexicon: Or encyclopaedic concise dictionary for educated classes , Volume 4, Comptoir for art and literature, 1833, p. 974
  4. Helge Gamrath: Farnese: pomp, power and politics in Renaissance Italy , L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 2007, p. 204
  5. Johannes-Paul Reinhard: Introduction to the Secular Stories of the Most Noble States , Christian Henrich Cuno, 1761, p. 281