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Charles Louis, Elector Palatine (German: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680), was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charles I of England.
By the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Charles Louis was restored to the Lower Palatinate and was given a new electoral title, also that of "Elector Palatine" but lower in precedence than the other electorates.
RulerBornReignDeath23 December 11731214–123115 September 12317 April 12061231–125329 November 125313 April 12291253–12942 February 12944 October 12741294–131712 August 1319In 1670, Charles II's sister Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate married Philippe of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV; on this basis, Louis claimed the Rhineland territories of the Palatinate for France.
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine ( German: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680), was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charles I of England.
Charles Louis, the exiled Elector of the Palatinate, has been accused by successive generations of scholars of either harboring ambitions for his uncle’s throne, or having a long-standing friendship with leading parliamentarians which made his eventual allegiance an inevitability.
Feb 20, 2024 · Against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, Robert Sidney, second earl of Leicester, was dispatched to Paris in May 1636 to negotiate an anti-Habsburg Franco-Stuart alliance to aid in the restitution of the king’s nephew, Charles I Louis, the dispossessed Prince Elector Palatine, to his dignities and lands, which had been lost in the early ...
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When Charles I Louis Elector of Palatine was born on 1 January 1618, in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Frederick V Wittelsbach of the Palatinate, King of Bohemia, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Stuart, was 21.
