Charles I Louis

Charles I Louis
Portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck, c. 1641
Elector Palatine
Reign24 October 1648 – 28 August 1680
PredecessorMaximilian I
SuccessorCharles II
Born(1617-12-22)22 December 1617
Heidelberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died28 August 1680(1680-08-28) (aged 62)
near Edingen, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse
(m. 1650; div. 1657)
(m. 1658; died 1677)
Elisabeth Hollander von Bernau
(m. 1679)
Issue
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Ludwig von Seltz
Charles II, Elector Palatine
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine
Raugravine Caroline Elisabeth
HousePalatine Simmern
FatherFrederick V, Elector Palatine[1]
MotherElizabeth Stuart[1]
ReligionCalvinism

Charles I Louis (German: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680) was Elector Palatine from 1648 until his death. He was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and the British princess Elizabeth Stuart.

After living the first half of his life in exile during the German Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War, in 1649 Charles Louis reclaimed his father's title of Elector Palatine, along with most of his former territories.[2]

  1. ^ a b Chisholm 1911a, p. 286.
  2. ^ Großkopf, Gertrud (1987). "Wilhelm Curtius. Lebensspuren eines kurpfälzischen Adeligen aus Bensheim im Dienst der englischen Krone" [William Curtius. The path of a Palatine nobleman, from Bensheim to the service of the English Crown]. In Historischer Verein für Hessen (ed.). Archive für hessische Geschichte und Altertumskunde (in German). Vol. Neue Folge 45. Band 1987. ISSN 0066-636X.