Louis Henry (German: Ludwig Heinrich) (11 October 1640 - 3 January 1674) was the
Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern from 1653 until 1673.
Life
Louis Henry was born in 1640 as the only surviving son of
Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern
Louis Philip (German: Ludwig Philipp) (23 November 1602 – 6 January 1655) was the Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern from 1610 until 1655. Philip acted as Administrator of the Palatinate between 1632 and 1648.
Philip was born in Heid ...
. He succeeded his father in 1655, and was under the regency of his mother,
Marie Eleonore von Brandenburg
Marie Eleonore von Brandenburg (1607-1675) was a princess of Brandenburg, Countess Palatine and from 1655 to 1658, regent of Simmern.
Biography
Marie Eleonore was the only child of Elector Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg from his second mar ...
, till 1658. He retired from ruling in 1673. He died less than a year later, and was buried in the St-Stephan's Church in
Simmern
Simmern (; officially Simmern/Hunsrück) is a town of roughly 7,600 inhabitants (2013) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the district seat of the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, and the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Simmern-Rheinböllen. In the Rhinelan ...
.
Marriage
Louis Henry married
Maria
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
* Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...
of
Orange-Nassau (5 September 1642 - 20 March 1688) in 1666, daughter of the Dutch prince
Frederick Henry. The marriage remained childless.
References
Literature
* Felix Joseph Lipowsky: ''Karl Ludwig Churfürst von der Pfalz.'' Seidel, 1824, S. 53
* Heinrich August Pierer: ''Universal-lexikon der gegenwart und vergangenheit: oder, Neuestes encyclopädisches wörterbuch der wissenschaften, künste und gewerbe, bearb von mehr als 220 gelehrten'', Band 18, H. A. Pierer, 1843, S. 14
Digital version
1640 births
1674 deaths
House of Palatinate-Simmern
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