Rhine
The Rhenish Palatinate was a collection of lordships centred on Heidelberg, with the Upper Palatinate near the Danube. In 1337 Rudolf II of Wittelsbach ruled lands restored to his family by the Treaty of Pavia in 1329.
The Golden Bull of 1356 confirmed the count palatine as an elector. Frederick III turned the Palatinate Calvinist from 1559, and Frederick V accepted the Bohemian crown in 1619. French armies devastated Heidelberg in 1689 and 1693. The electorate united with Bavaria in 1777, and Baden annexed its Rhenish lands in 1803.
Characters
- Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- Agnes of Hohenstaufen
- Anna of Carinthia-Tyrol
- Anne of the Palatinate
- Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- Irmengard of Oettingen
- Conrad of Hohenstaufen
- Mechtild of Nassau
- Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- Rupert II, Elector Palatine
- Rupert I, Elector Palatine