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Herzogtum Pfalz-Neuburg
Palatinate-Neuburg

State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806)

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1505 – 1808

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Coat of arms

Neuburg Castle

Capital

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Religion

Government

Count Palatine

- 1505–59

- 1653–90

- 1742–99

Historical era

- Established

July 30, 1505

- Ceded to Zweibrücken

1557

- Sulzbach separated

1614

- Merged with Electorate

1685

- Disestablished

1808

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History

The Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg was created in 1505 as the result of the Landshut War of Succession and existed until 1799 or 1808. The Landshut war of succession resulted from an agreement between the duchies of Bavaria-Munich ( Bayern-München) and Bavaria-Landshut ( Bayern-Landshut) both After the so-called Kölner Spruch (Verdict of Cologne) the Duchy was created from the territories north of the Danube for Otto Henry and Philipp, the sons of Ruprecht, Bishop of Freising. The Danube (In Donau from earlier Danuvius, Celtic *dānu, meaning "to flow run" Slovak and Polish Dunaj Otto-Henry Elector Palatine, (Ottheinrich Amberg, 10 April 1502 &ndash 12 February 1559 in Heidelberg) a member While they were minors, first their grandfather, Philipp, ruled the Duchy until his death in 1508, and then Frederick II. Frederick II Count Palatine of the Rhine (9 December 1482 in Winzingen Castle near Neustadt an der Weinstraße – 26 February 1556 in Alzey) a member of the In 1557 Otto Henry ceded his duchy (the so-called Young Palatinate) to Wolfgang of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. The eldest son of Wolfgang, Philipp Louis, founded in 1569 the elder line of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Neuburg, from which the Palatinate-Sulzbach lineage was separated in 1614. Pfalz-Neuburg joined the Protestant Union in 1608. The Protestant Union or League of Evangelical Union (also known as the Evangelical Union or Union of Auhausen) was a coalition of Protestant

The Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg was abolished in 1808. In the partition of Bavaria in 1837 Pfalz-Neuburg was joined with Swabia but became a part of Upper Bavaria in the 1970s. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Swabia, Suabia, or Svebia ( German: Schwaben, Schwabenland or Ländle) is both a historic and linguistic Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south of Bavaria around the city of Munich

Counts Palatine of Neuburg

Two brothers, first under regency of Frederick II, Elector Palatine
- Otto Henry, 1505–59 (Elector Palatine from 1556)
- Philipp, 1505–48
Wolfgang, 1559–69
Philipp Ludwig, 1569–1614
Wolfgang Wilhelm, 1614–53
Philipp Wilhelm, 1653–90 (Elector Palatine from 1685)
Johann Wilhelm, 1690–1716
Karl, 1716–42
Karl Theodor, 1742–99

History

Counts Palatine of Neuburg

See also