Frederick Bernard, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (28 May 1697 in

Gelnhausen Gelnhausen () is a town, and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approximately 40 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main, between the Vogelsberg mountains and the Spessart range at the river Kinzig (Main), Kinzig. ...

– 5 August 1739, ibid.) was

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and

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of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen.

Life

Frederick Bernard was the eldest son of the Duke and Count Palatine

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of Gelnhausen (1638-1704) from his second marriage, Esther Maria (1665-1725), the daughter of Baron George Frederick of Witzleben-Elgersburg. In 1704, he succeeded his father as Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen. He served in the French army as a colonel of the Royal Alsatian regiment. He was a knight of the

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. A treaty of 1736 with Caroline, the regent of Zweibrücken, granted Frederick Bernard an annual allowance of . Frederick Bernard died in 1739 without a male heir.Hardt: ''Wilhelm Herzog in Bayern'', Verl. d. Literar.-Artist.-Inst., 1838, p. 6 Gelnhause was inherited by his younger brother

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Marriage and issue

Frederick Bernard married on 30 May 1737 in

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to Ernestine Louise (1705-1782), the daughter of prince Frederick Anton Ulrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her mother was Frederick Bernard's cousin Louise of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. Frederick Bernard and Ernestine Louise had two daughters: * Caroline Louise (1738-1782) * Ernestine Friederike Auguste (1739-1746)

Ancestors

References

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: ''Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste.'' Section 2, H–N, part 21, ''Johann (Infant von Castilien) – Johann-Boniten'', p. 189 * Maximilian V. Sattler: ''Lehrbuch der bayerischen Geschichte'', Lindauer, 1868, p. 412 * Carl Renatus Hausen: ''Abhandlungen und Materialien zum neuesten deutschen Staatsrechte und Reichsgeschichte'', vol. 5, p. 160 ff

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frederick Bernhard, Count Palatine of Geinhausen People from Gelnhausen House of Wittelsbach Counts Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire Dukes in Germany 1697 births 1739 deaths 18th-century German nobility