Ludwig V (Palatinate)

Elector Ludwig V.

Ludwig V of the Palatinate the "Friedfertige" (* July 2, 1478 in Heidelberg ; † March 16, 1544 ibid) from the Wittelsbach family was Count Palatine and Elector of the Palatinate from February 28, 1508 to March 16, 1544 .

His parents were Philip the Sincere Elector of the Palatinate and Princess Margarete of Bavaria-Landshut .

Life

Ludwig received his education from the humanist Johannes Reuchlin and his humanistic education from the preacher Jodocus Gallus (1459–1517) and Adam Werner von Themar . After his mother's death, he was sent to the French court in 1502 to train as a gentleman. After he succeeded his father as elector in 1508, he had to limit the consequences of the Landshut War of Succession . At the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1518 he achieved the repeal of the imperial ban on the Electoral Palatinate. In 1519 he voted for Charles V when he was elected emperor after receiving high bribes from the Habsburgs.

He had the Ruprecht building of Heidelberg Castle increased by one storey, while he also expanded the library room (Ludwig himself wrote a twelve-volume work on medicine) with an oriel window that is still preserved today, and he was considered one of the most eager to build electors.

In 1525 he tried to negotiate with rebellious farmers in the Palatinate Peasants' War on May 10th in Forst an der Weinstrasse and in the uprising areas on the Rhine and in Franconia, but failed and then took on several battles in alliance with Archbishop Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads of Trier the peasants participated, for example in the defense of the Marienberg fortress in Würzburg and in the battle of Pfeddersheim .

In 1529, on his behalf, due to the Anabaptist mandate, 350 Anabaptists were executed in Alzey for their beliefs without judgment, the men beheaded and the women drowned in the Rossschwemme ( martyrs of the Anabaptist movement ). Ludwig had his chancellor Florence von Venningen (* around 1466, † 1538) write a memorandum on the process in 1528 and commissioned expert opinions from the legal faculties in Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Freiburg, Ingolstadt, Tübingen, Leipzig and Heidelberg.

Marriage and offspring

Elector Ludwig V married on February 23, 1511 in Heidelberg Sibille (1489–1519), daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria and his wife Archduchess Kunigunde of Austria , daughter of Emperor Friedrich III. This marriage remained childless.

His daughter Margareta von Lützelstein (March 14, 1523– July 3, 1560 Harburg (Swabia) ), from a liaison, married Count Ludwig XVI in 1543 . von Oettingen-Oettingen (1508–1569). From this marriage, Ludwig's first of three, had eleven children.

After his death in 1544, his brother Friedrich II succeeded him.

Fonts

Beginning around 1525, he wrote a twelve-volume collection of German-language medical texts (Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 261-272), called the Twelve-Volume Book of Medicine , which he was assisted in preparing by the office secretary and chamber clerk Sebastian Heuring and the clerkship clerk Peter Harer whose fascicles were arranged in 13 volumes in 1554 by the Palatine court preacher Ottmar Stab after his death . The twelve-volume book of medicine was formerly part of the Bibliotheca Palatina , was taken away with the entire collection to the Vatican Library in 1622 and returned to Heidelberg in 1816 with the German-language manuscripts . It is kept in the university library and is available online as part of the project to digitize the "Codices palatini germanici" .

Ludwig also made a copy of a medical work by Isaak Levi, son of Meyer Levi (Meïr Levi), whom Ludwig allowed to settle in Kreuznach in 1525 , which was published in the Heidelberg Cod. Pal. Germ. 241 can be found on pages 65 to 87 as a translation from Hebrew into German. Another manuscript compiled by a Jew from Kreuznach who was probably identical to Isaak Levi exists as a copy made by Ludwig (Cod. Pal. Germ. 786).

literature

Albrecht Luttenberger: Ludwig V. the peacemaker, elector of the Palatinate. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 412 f. ( Digitized version ).
Jakob Wille : Ludwig V, Elector Palatinate . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 575-577.
Gundolf Keil : Ludwig V, Count Palatine near the Rhine. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd ed., Volume 5, Col. 1016-1030.

Web links

Commons : Louis V, Elector Palatine - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

House of Bavarian History Biography and portrait of Elector Ludwig V the Peacemaker of the Palatinate

Individual evidence

^ A parallel report in the same source speaks of 9 men and some women; Josef Beck (arr.): The history books of the Anabaptists in Austria-Hungary . (Austrian historical sources - Fontes rerum Austriacarum II, 43). Gerold, Vienna 1883, p. 29f and p. 30f ( Google Books ).
^ After Ernst Friedrich Peter Güß: The Electoral Palatinate Government and Anabaptism up to the Thirty Years' War . (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg 12). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960, p. 117, 14 executions are documented; Clausdieter Schott: Advice and verdict from the Faculty of Law Freiburg i. Br. (Contributions to the history of science and universities in Freiburg). Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965, pp. 26, 36, 146, 170, 194 and 205.
↑ Christian Hege: The Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate. A contribution to the history of the Reformation in Baden-Palatinate , Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 57.
^ Clausdieter Schott: Advice and verdict from the Faculty of Law Freiburg i. Br. (Contributions to the history of science and universities in Freiburg). Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965, pp. 26 and 205, u. a.
↑ Gundolf Keil : 'Twelve Volume Book of Medicine' (Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 261–272 and Cpg. 244). In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 1535.
↑ Hellmut Salowsky: The twelve-volume "Book of Medicine" in Heidelberg. An autograph of Elector Ludwig V. In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher. Volume 17, 1973, pp. 27-46.
↑ Ludwig V of the Palatinate: Book of Medicine , 1st volume (Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 261) .
↑ Eva Shenia Shemyakova: 'Des Juden buch von kreuczenach'. Investigation and edition of the recipe part of the Heidelberg Cpg 786. In: Fachproseforschung - Grenzüberreitungen. Volume 8/9, 2012/13, pp. 207-265.
↑ Volker Zimmermann: The treatise on “daz lively water” from the Heidelberg manuscript Cod. Pal. Germ. 786 - 'The Jew's Book of Kreuczenach'. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 4/5, 2008/2009, pp. 113-123.

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip	Elector Palatinate 1508–1544	Friedrich II.

personal data
SURNAME	Ludwig V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pfalz, Ludwig V. of the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count Palatine and Elector Palatinate (1508–1544)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1478
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1544
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] A parallel report in the same source speaks of 9 men and some women; Josef Beck (arr.): The history books of the Anabaptists in Austria-Hungary . (Austrian historical sources - Fontes rerum Austriacarum II, 43). Gerold, Vienna 1883, p. 29f and p. 30f ( Google Books ).

[2] After Ernst Friedrich Peter Güß: The Electoral Palatinate Government and Anabaptism up to the Thirty Years' War . (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg 12). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960, p. 117, 14 executions are documented; Clausdieter Schott: Advice and verdict from the Faculty of Law Freiburg i. Br. (Contributions to the history of science and universities in Freiburg). Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965, pp. 26, 36, 146, 170, 194 and 205.

[3] Christian Hege: The Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate. A contribution to the history of the Reformation in Baden-Palatinate , Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 57.

[4] Clausdieter Schott: Advice and verdict from the Faculty of Law Freiburg i. Br. (Contributions to the history of science and universities in Freiburg). Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965, pp. 26 and 205, u. a.

[5] Gundolf Keil : 'Twelve Volume Book of Medicine' (Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 261–272 and Cpg. 244). In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 1535.

[6] Hellmut Salowsky: The twelve-volume "Book of Medicine" in Heidelberg. An autograph of Elector Ludwig V. In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher. Volume 17, 1973, pp. 27-46.

[7] Ludwig V of the Palatinate: Book of Medicine , 1st volume (Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 261) .

[8] Eva Shenia Shemyakova: 'Des Juden buch von kreuczenach'. Investigation and edition of the recipe part of the Heidelberg Cpg 786. In: Fachproseforschung - Grenzüberreitungen. Volume 8/9, 2012/13, pp. 207-265.

[9] Volker Zimmermann: The treatise on “daz lively water” from the Heidelberg manuscript Cod. Pal. Germ. 786 - 'The Jew's Book of Kreuczenach'. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 4/5, 2008/2009, pp. 113-123.