Elizabeth of the Palatinate (16 November 1483,

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– 24 June 1522,

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) was a member of the

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and a Countess Palatine of

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and by marriage, successively Landgravine of

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and Margravine of

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Life

Elizabeth was a daughter of the elector

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(1448–1508) from his marriage to

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(1456–1501), daughter of Duke Louis IX. of Bavaria-Landshut. She first married on February 12, 1496 in Heidelberg with Landgrave William III of Hesse-Marburg (1471–1500). The nuptials took place in 1498 in

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. The marriage tied William III closer to the Palatinate house while his cousins in Kassel were considered to be partisans of the

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. In the event he would die without an heir, William had promised Elizabeth almost the entire

county of Katzenelnbogen The County of Katzenelnbogen was an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire. Chatti Melibokus is a very old tribe who stayed on a high hill in the Bergstraße region of Hesse (the part that lies south), in Germany. It existed between 109 ...

wittum Wittum (), Widum or Witthum is a medieval Latin legal term, known in marital and ecclesiastical law. Provide for a widow at the wedding The term referred initially to steps taken by a husband to provide for his wife if she became a widow. The wi ...

. However, when William III died, his whole territory, including Katzenelnbogen, was inherited by his cousin William II of Hesse-Kassel. The Palatinate party then proposed that Elisabeth should marry William II. William declined, and married a princess close to the

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. William II also participated in the imperial ban against Elisabeth's father and brother, because of the dispute over Elisabeth's wittum. Three years after the death of her first husband Elisabeth married on January 3, 1503 in

with Margrave

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of Baden-Sponheim (1479–1533). In a contract concluded in 1508 with respect to Elizabeth's dowry, it was stipulated that the part of

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that Baden had ceded to the Palatinate in 1463, was to be returned to Baden. Elizabeth died on June 14, 1522 and was buried in the Collegiate Church in

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Offspring

From her second marriage to Margrave Philip of Baden Elisabeth had the following children: * Marie Jakobäa (1507–1580) : married in 1522 Duke

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(1493–1550) * Philipp (1508–1509) * Philipp Jakob (* / † 1511) * Eva Marie (* / † 1513) * Johann Adam (* / † 1516) * Max Kaspar (* / † 1519)

References

* Hermann Wiesflecker: ''Emperor Maximilian I: the Empire, Austria and Europe at the turn of the Modern Age'', Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1986, p. 29 * Historical Society of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: ''Archive for Hessian History and Archaeology'', volume 11, privately published by the Historical Society for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1867, p. 141 ff * Pauline Puppel:' 'The Regent: guardianship rule in Hessen 1500-1700'', Campus Verlag, 2004, p. 158 ff * Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: ''Statistical-topographic-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Volume 4, CW Leske, 1831, p. 22 * Gerhard Kattermann: ''Margrave Philip I of Baden (1515–1533) and his chancellor, Dr. Hieronymus Veus'', GH Nolte, 1935, p. 5 ff

Footnotes

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