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Persoonlijke gegevens Frederik iii "(de vrome)" van Simmern 

• Roepnaam is (de vrome).
• Hij is geboren op 14 februari 1515.
• Beroep: keurvorst van de Palts.
• Hij is overleden op 26 oktober 1576, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Johan ii van de Palts van Simmern en Beatrix van Baden

Gezin van Frederik iii "(de vrome)" van Simmern

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Marie van Brandenburg - Kulmbach.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1537, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Alberta van Simmern  1538-1553
2. Ludwig vi van Simmern  1539-1583 
3. Elisabeth van de Palts  1540-1594 
4. Herman Ludwig van Simmern  1541-1556
5. Johan Casimir van Palts-Simmern  1543-1592 
6. Dorothea Suzanne van Simmern  1544-1592 
7. Albrecht van Simmern  1546-1547
8. Anna Elisabeth van de Palts  1549-1609
9. Christoph van Simmern  1551-1574
10. Karl van Simmern  1552-1555
11. Kunigunde Jacobäa van de Palts  1556-1586 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Amalia van Neuenahr.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1569, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.

Notities over Frederik iii "(de vrome)" van Simmern

Frederick III of Simmern, the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (February 14, 1515 – October 26, 1576) was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach, branch Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. He was a son of John II of Simmern and inherited the Palatinate from the childless Elector Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine (Ottheinrich) in 1559. He was a devout convert to Calvinism, and made the Reformed confession the official religion of his domain by overseeing the composition and promulgation of the Heidelberg Catechism. His support of Calvinism gave the German Reformed movement a foothold within the Holy Roman Empire.

Frederick was strictly educated in the Roman faith at his father's court and at Cologne, but, influenced by his wife, the pious princess Maria of Brandenburg, whom he married in 1537, he followed the Reformation, and in 1546 made a public profession of his faith. He succeeded his father John II as duke of Simmern on 18 May 1557, and became elector on 12 February 1559, on the death of Otto Henry. Under his predecessor strict Lutherans like Tilemann Heshusius, Melanchthonians, and Calvinists had found a place in the Palatinate. In the summer of 1559 bitter controversies arose among them. Theses on the Lord's Supper prepared by the Heidelberg deacon Wilhelm Klebitz provoked a bitter controversy between him and Heshusius.

When efforts at mediation failed Frederick deposed both men on 16 September 1559. To get a clear understanding of the controversy Frederick spent days and nights in theological studies and was thus led more and more to the Reformed confession. A disputation held in June 1560 between the Saxon theologians Johann Stössel and Joachim Mörlin and the Heidelbergers Pierre Boquin, Thomas Erastus, and Paul Einhorn increased Frederick's dislike for the Lutheran zealots. After the Naumburg Convention (January, 1561) Frederick fully adopted the Reformed dogmas.

In March 1561 he invited Emmanuel Tremellius to Heidelberg, and in September the famous Zacharius Ursinus. The whole Church was now transformed. Caspar Olevianus had been there since January 1560. Images of the saints, vestments, baptismal fonts, and other "idolatrous works," even organs, were ruthlessly removed from the churches. In the celebration of the Lord's Supper the breaking of bread was introduced. The revenues from monasteries and foundations were confiscated and applied to Evangelical church purposes or charity. The Heidelberg Catechism, prepared by a committee of theologians and ministers likely led by Ursinus, now served as the norm of doctrine and for the instruction of the youth.

The church order of 15 November 1563 and the consistory order of 1564 consolidated the changes. The opposition of ministers inclining to Lutheranism was suppressed by their dismissal. Among the Lutherans, Frederick's measures caused a great sensation. The religious colloquy held at Maulbronn in April 1564 increased the animosity. In 1565 the Emperor Maximilian ordered the changes to be annulled. A unanimous decree of the 1566 Diet of Augsburg also demanded the abolition of the changes. Frederick, however, declared in the 14 May session of the Diet that a matter was concerned over which God alone has the rule, and if it was intended to proceed against him, he would find comfort in the promises of his Saviour. The decree was not carried out.

After completing the work of reform in the Rhine Palatinate, Frederick endeavored to continue it in the Upper Palatinate; but here he was resisted by the zealous Lutheran estates. He continued his work of reform on the Rhine by introducing in 1570 a strict church discipline. Frederick pronounced the sentence of death on the Antitrinitarian Johann Sylvan based on the opinion signed by Olevianus, Ursinus, and Boquin, on 23 December 1572.

In 1562 Frederick gave Frankenthal as a refuge to the Evangelicals driven from the Netherlands. He sent his like-minded son Johann Casimir in 1567 and again in 1576 to France in aid of the Huguenots. In 1569 he assisted also the Count Palatine Wolfgang of Pfalz-Zweibrücken on his way to France.

Frederick's last years were troubled by domestic afflictions. As his older son Louis was a strict Lutheran, he could not hope that after his death his work would be carried out in his own spirit.

Frederick III was married twice. Firstly, he married in 1537 Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519 – 1567), daughter of Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Susanna of Bavaria. Their children were:

Alberta (4 April 1538 – 19 March 1553)
Louis VI, Elector Palatine (4 July 1539 – 22 October 1583)
Elisabeth (30 June 1540 – 8 February 1594), married in 1558 to Duke Johann Frederick II of Saxony
Hermann Ludwig (6 October 1541 – 1 July 1556)
Johann Casimir (7 March 1543 – 16 January 1592)
Dorothea Susanne (15 November 1544] – 8 April 1592), married in 1560 to John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Albert (30 September 1546 – 30 April 1547)
Anna Elisabeth (23 July 1549 – 20 September 1609), married:
in 1569 to Landgrave Philipp II of Hesse-Rheinfels;
in 1599 to Count Palatine John August of Veldenz
Christof (13 June 1551 – 14 April 1574)
Karl (28 December 1552 – 12 September 1555)
Kunigunde Jakobäa (9 October 1556 – 26 January 1586), married in 1580 to Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg
Secondly, he married in 1569 Amalia of Neuenahr ( 1539 – 1602), but this marriage was childless.

He died in 1576, and was succeeded as Elector Palatine by his son Louis VI. Frederick had carved out a territory from the Lower Palatine land dubbed "Pfalz-Lautern" for his second surviving son Johann Casimir as an enclave to enable the continued existence of the Reformed faith. Johann Casimir would serve as regent for the Electorate of the Palatinate upon Louis VI's death and would oversee the return of the Reformed faith to the Palatinate.

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