Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt

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Mosbach , in the copper engraving Merian's
Pfalzgrafenschloss Neumarkt

The Pfalzgrafschaft Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt was created in 1448 through the union of the rulers Pfalz-Mosbach and Pfalz-Neumarkt and was ruled by the Pfalz-Mosbach line of the Palatinate Wittelsbach family until they died out in 1499 . It consisted of free float with a focus on the Odenwald around Mosbach and in the Upper Palatinate around Neumarkt .

The Palatine line of the Wittelsbacher divided after the death of Ruprecht III. from the Palatinate in 1410 in four lines, the Kurlinie with the capital Heidelberg and the lines Pfalz-Neumarkt , Pfalz-Simmern and Pfalz-Mosbach .

The Pfalz-Mosbach line was founded by Ruprecht's youngest son Otto I , who moved his residence to Mosbach. His marriage to Johanna von Bayern-Landshut had nine children.

When the Palatinate-Neumarkt line died out in 1448, its ownership in the Upper Palatinate fell to the Mosbach line and Neumarkt was used by Count Palatine Otto I as a second residence.

His son Otto II (1435–1499) continued the line, but moved his seat of government to Neumarkt. Otto II died there childless, with which the Pfalz-Mosbach line also died out. The territory fell back to the Elector Philip of the Palatinate (Kurlinie) and was reunited with the Electoral Palatinate domain.

The Prince of Leiningen took after Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 among others the title "Count Palatine to Mosbach" to; this is not related to the Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt line discussed here.

List of the Count Palatine of Pfalz-Mosbach

  • 1410–1461: Otto I (Pfalz-Mosbach) (1390–1461), the youngest son of Elector Ruprecht III. and Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg
  • 1461–1499: Otto II. (Pfalz-Mosbach) (Otto Mathematicus; 1435–1499), Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt

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