Electoral Palatinate (deu)

Electoral Palatinate

Electoral Palatinate ranks 3,866th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Winchester, Massachusetts, Tordesillas, and Stoneham, Massachusetts. Memorable people born in Electoral Palatinate include Frederick V of the Palatinate, Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine, and Louis III, Elector Palatine. Electoral Palatinate has been the birth place of many politicians, and noblemen. Electoral Palatinate is located in Germany.

The Electoral Palatinate or the Palatinate, officially the Electorate of the Palatinate, was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of Lotharingia in 915; it was then restructured under the Counts Palatine of the Rhine in 1085. From 1214 until the Electoral Palatinate was merged into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1805, the House of Wittelsbach provided the Counts Palatine or Electors. These counts palatine of the Rhine would serve as prince-electors from "time immemorial", and were noted as such in a papal letter of 1261; they were confirmed as electors by the Golden Bull of 1356. Read more on Wikipedia