Genealogy John Muijsers » Karel i Lodewijk van de Palts (1617-1680)

Personal data Karel i Lodewijk van de Palts 

• He was born on December 22, 1617.
• Profession: keurvorst van de Palts.
• He died on August 28, 1680, he was 62 years old.
• A child of Frederick v van de Palts and Elizabeth Stuart

Household of Karel i Lodewijk van de Palts

(1) He is married to Charlotte van Hessen-Kassel.

They got married on February 22, 1650, he was 32 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Karl ii van de Palts  1651-1685
2. "Elisabeth" Charlotte (Liselotte) van de Palts  1652-1722 
3. Friedrich van de Palts  1653-1653

(2) He is married to Marie Louise van Degenfeld.

They got married on January 6, 1658, he was 40 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Karl Ludwig van de Palts  1658-1688
2. Karoline van de Palts  1659-1696
3. Louise van de Palts  1661-1733
4. Ludwig van de Palts  1662-1662
5. Amalie Elisabeth van de Palts  1663-1709
6. George Ludwig van de Palts  1664-1665
7. Frederike van de Palts  1665-1674
8. Friedrich Wilhelm van de Palts  1666-1667
9. Karl Eduard van de Palts  1668-1690
10. Sophie van de Palts  1669-1669
11. Karl Moritz van de Palts  1671-1702
12. Karl August van de Palts  1672-1691
13. Karl Kasimir van de Palts  1675-1691

(3) He is married to Elisabeth Hollander van Bernau.

They got married December 1679, he was 61 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Karl Ludwig van de Palts  1681-????

Notes about Karel i Lodewijk van de Palts

Charles Louis, (German: Karl I. Ludwig), Elector Palatine KG (22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680) was the second son of German elector Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and his wife, Elizabeth of England.

After the death of his older brother, Henry Frederick, in 1629, and of his father in 1632, Charles Louis inherited his exiled father's possessions in the Electorate of the Palatinate. Along with his younger brother Rupert, he spent much of the 1630s at the court of his maternal uncle, Charles I of England, hoping to enlist English support for his cause. The young Elector Palatine was largely unsuccessful in this, and became gradually estranged from the King, who feared that Charles Louis might become a focus for opposition forces in England. Indeed, in the English crisis leading up to the outbreak of the English Civil War, Charles Louis had considerable sympathy for the parliamentary leaders, especially the Earl of Essex, feeling them more likely to come to the aid of the Palatinate on the continent. The Prince Palatine supported the execution of Strafford. Although Charles Louis was involved in the early stages of the Civil War with his uncle, he was mistrusted for his parliamentary sympathies, and soon returned to his mother in The Hague. There he distanced himself from the royalist cause in the Civil War, fearing that Charles would sell him out for Spanish support.

Engraving of Charles I Louis
In 1644, Charles Louis returned to England at the invitation of Parliament. He took up residence in the Palace of Whitehall and took the Solemn League and Covenant, even though his brothers, Rupert and Maurice, were Royalist generals. Contemporaries (including King Charles) and some in subsequent generations believed that Charles Louis' motive in visiting Roundhead London was that he hoped that Parliament would enthrone him in place of his uncle. Charles Louis' endorsement of the Parliamentary party was a cause of enmity between uncle and nephew, and when a captive Charles I met his nephew once again in 1647, the elder Charles accused the Prince of angling for the English throne. Charles Louis was still in England in October 1648 when the Peace of Westphalia restored the Lower Palatinate to him (the Upper Palatinate, to his great disappointment, remained under the Elector of Bavaria). He remained in England long enough to see the execution of his uncle in January 1649, which appears to have come as a shock. The two had not reconciled prior to the King's death – Charles refused to see his nephew before his execution.

Electorate
After this unhappy dénouement to Charles Louis's participation in English politics, he at last returned to the now devastated Electorate of the Palatinate in the autumn of 1649. Over the more than thirty years of his reign there, he strove with some success to rebuild his shattered territory. In foreign affairs, he pursued a pro-French course, marrying his daughter Elizabeth Charlotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, Louis XIV's brother, in 1671. After his restoration, his relations with his relatives continued to deteriorate – his British relations never forgave him for his course in the Civil War, while his mother and siblings resented his parsimony.

The most notable facet of his reign was probably his unilateral divorce of his wife, Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and subsequent bigamous marriage to Marie Luise von Degenfeld. This second wife was given the unique title of Raugravine (Raugräfin, countess of uninhabited or uncultivated lands), and their children were known as the Raugraves.

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