Leopold Ludwig (Palatinate-Veldenz)

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Count Palatine and Duke Leopold Ludwig von Veldenz

Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz (born February 1, 1625 - † September 29, 1694 in Strasbourg ) was Count Palatine of Veldenz from 1634 until his death . With his death in 1694, the Veldenz line of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken family died out .

Life

Leopold Ludwig was the fifth son of Count Palatine Georg Gustav von Veldenz (1564–1634) from his second marriage to Marie Elisabeth (1581–1637), daughter of Count Palatine Johann I von Zweibrücken . Since the Hereditary Prince (the four older brothers had already died) was only 9 years old when his father died, Leopold Ludwig's uncle Georg Johann II von Lützelstein led the reign, who ensured that the prince was carefully brought up.

After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Leopold Ludwig was given back his hereditary land, from which his father had been driven by Spanish troops. After the death of his uncle Georg Johann II. In 1654, Leopold Ludwig received the county of Lützelstein and the rule of Guttenberg back and thus reunited all of the Veldenz countries in his hand. He had to leave his country in the Dutch War and only returned after the Peace of Nijmegen .

He had his eldest son Gustav Philipp imprisoned in Lauterecken in 1678 , where he died in 1679 under unusual circumstances. After the beginning of the reunion, Leopold Ludwig was again driven out by the French and fled to Strasbourg, where he finally submitted to the French.

After the death of Elector Karl II. Of the Palatinate in 1685, Leopold Ludwig claimed the succession in the electoral dignity because of his close relatives, which, however, ultimately, despite all protests, was succeeded by Philipp Wilhelm from the Neuburg line .

In his will of April 8, 1692, Leopold Ludwig determined King Karl XI. from Sweden to the heir of Pfalz-Veldenz, but the other agnates, Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz , Christian August von Pfalz-Sulzbach and Christian II. von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld also made claims. The legal dispute of the Wittelsbach lines about the succession in Pfalz-Veldenz, which was confusing due to the genealogical, territorial and contractual development , was not finally decided until 1733.

Marriage and offspring

Leopold Ludwig married on July 4, 1648 Bischweiler with Agathe (1632-1681), daughter of Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg , with whom he had the following children:

⚭ 1669 Wild and Rhine Count Johann XI. zu Salm-Kyrburg (1635–1688)
  • Christine (1654–1655)
  • Christine Luise (1655–1656)
  • Christian Ludwig (1656-1658)
  • Dorothea (1658-1723)
⚭ 1707 (divorced 1723) Count Palatine Gustav Samuel Leopold von Zweibrücken (1670–1731)
  • Leopold Ludwig (1659-1660)
  • Karl Georg (1660–1686), fallen
  • Agnes Eleonore (1662–1664)
  • August Leopold (1663–1689), fallen

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Joachim: Collection of German coins of the middle and modern times , 1755, p. 964 digitized
  • Georg Bärsch: The Moselle stream from Metz to Coblenz , C. Troschel, 1841, p. 279 f. Digitized
  • Christian von Stramberg: The Moselle valley between Zell and Konz , 1837, p. 341 ff. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar K. Kinzinger: Sweden and Pfalz-Zweibrücken , dissertation, Zweibrücken 1988, pp. 308-317. ISBN 3-924171-02-5
personal data
SURNAME Leopold Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Veldenz (1634–1694)
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1625
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1694
Place of death Strasbourg