Palatinate-Neumarkt
Pfalz-Neumarkt was a palatinate county around the capital Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate as well as the name of the ruling branch line of the Palatinate Wittelsbacher . The first sovereign and founder of the line was Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt , Duke in Bavaria and Count Palatine near the Rhine.
Johann's father was Elector Ruprecht III. from the Palatinate . When he died in 1410, he bequeathed his four living sons their own territories, where they established their own lines of the Palatinate Wittelsbach family. The oldest, Ludwig III. , received the Electoral Palatinate with the capital Heidelberg and founded the Kurlinie. Johann received Pfalz-Neumarkt with the capital Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Stefan received Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Otto I. Pfalz-Mosbach .
When he died in 1443, Johann left Pfalz-Neumarkt to his son Christoph von Pfalz-Neumarkt , who had risen to become King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway ( Kalmar Union ) after the deposition of his uncle Erik VII in 1439 . With Christoph's childless death in 1448, the Wittelsbach line from Palatinate to Neumarkt expired. The territory of Pfalz-Neumarkt fell to Christoph's uncle Otto I of Pfalz-Mosbach, who merged it with his territory of Pfalz-Mosbach to form the Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt County .
List of the Count Palatine of Pfalz-Neumarkt
literature
- Wilhelm Volkert : The Palatine branch lines since the 15th century . In: Andreas Kraus (Ed.): Handbook of Bavarian History . 3. Edition. tape III / 3 . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39453-1 , p. 111-124, especially pp. 111-115 .