Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen

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Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen is a branch line of the House of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld of the Wittelsbach family .

history

After the death of Christian I of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , his eldest son Christian II succeeded him as Count Palatine of Bischweiler according to the Wittelsbach house contract . The younger brother Johann Karl received a pension and the Palatinate rights in the pledged imperial city of Gelnhausen . He thus became the founder of the Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line. These two lines are the only two Wittelsbach lines that still exist today. While the older line produced Maximilian I Joseph, the first king of Bavaria , from 1806 , the younger line carried the title of Duke in Bavaria from 1799 .

After the Palatinate had sold its rights to Gelnhausen to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel in 1746 , the part of the name “Gelnhausen” was no longer associated with any sovereign rights, it was only a part of the name.

Regents

Count Palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen were:

  • 1654–1704: Johann Karl (1638–1704)
  • 1704–1739: Friedrich Bernhard (1697–1739), his son
  • 1739–1780: Johann (1698–1780), his brother
  • 1780–1789: Karl (1745–1789), his son
  • 1789–1799: Wilhelm (1752–1837), his brother

Other well-known members of the family were Wilhelm (1701–1760), Hungarian field marshal and Dutch general of the cavalry and Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (Sisi).

See also

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ At that time, half of Gelnhausen was pledged by the Reich to Hanau and the Palatinate (cf. also: History of the City of Gelnhausen ).