Ludwig Heinrich (Palatinate-Simmern)

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Ludwig Heinrich Moritz von Pfalz-Simmern (born October 11, 1640 in Sedan , † January 3, 1674 in Kreuznach ) was a Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern-Kaiserslautern .

Life

Ludwig Heinrich Moritz was the only surviving son of Count Palatine Ludwig Philipp von Simmern-Kaiserslautern (1602–1655) from his marriage to Marie Eleonore (1607–1675), daughter of Elector Joachim Friedrich of Brandenburg . The prince was born in Sedan, where his parents fled the Thirty Years War .

He followed his father in 1655 in the Principality of Simmern , under the tutelage of his mother and the Elector Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz . He married on September 23, 1666 in Kleve Marie (1642–1688), daughter of Prince Friedrich Heinrich of Orange . The marriage, which, unlike that of her sisters, was concluded more out of inclination than for political reasons, remained childless.

Ludwig Heinrich Moritz died without leaving any heirs, which is why the so-called younger line Pfalz-Simmern died out and the principality of Simmern fell to Elector Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz, the next agnate of the Count Palatine.

Ludwig Heinrich Moritz was buried in the town church of St. Stephan in Simmern .

literature

  • Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Karl Ludwig Elector Palatinate. Seidel, 1824, p. 53
  • Heinrich August Pierer: Universal lexicon of the present and the past: or, Latest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and trade, edited by more than 220 scholars , Volume 18, HA Pierer, 1843, p. 148 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wolf: Nassauische Lebensbilder , Part 5, Carl Ritter, p. 52
  2. ^ Ludwig Heinrich (Pfalz-Simmern), Royality (travel) Guide, In: web.archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwig Heinrich Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern-Kaiserslautern
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedan
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1674
Place of death Kreuznach