Luise Marie of the Palatinate (''Luise Marie von der Plafz''; 23 July 1647 – 11 March 1679) was a

Palatine A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.

princess who married Charles Theodore, the Prince ('' Fürst'') of

Salm-Salm The Principality of Salm-Salm (german: Fürstentum Salm-Salm; french: Principauté de Salm-Salm) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was located in the present-day French departments of Bas-Rhin and Vosges; it was one of a number of partitions ...

. A great-granddaughter of

James I of England James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

and niece of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, she and her family, as Catholics, were excluded from the line of succession to the British throne.

Early life

She was the eldest daughter of the landless Prince Palatine Edward and his French-Italian wife, Anna Gonzaga. She was probably named after her mother's sister,

Ludwika Maria Gonzaga Marie Louise Gonzaga ( pl, Ludwika Maria; 18 August 1611 – 10 May 1667) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage to two kings of Poland and grand dukes of Lithuania, brothers Władysław IV and John II Casimir. Together w ...

, Queen of Poland (in German, ''Louise Marie''). Her younger sisters were Anne Henriette, wife of Henri Jules, Prince de Condé and Benedicta Henrietta, wife of

John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg John Frederick (german: Johann Friedrich; 25 April 1625 in Herzberg am Harz – 18 December 1679 in Augsburg) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He ruled over the Principality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, from 1665 until his death. T ...

. On her father's side, she was a first cousin of

George I of Great Britain George I (George Louis; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first ...

and

Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans Princess Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (german: Prinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz), (french: Princesse Élisabeth-Charlotte du Palatinat); known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, 27 May 1652 – 8 December 1722) was a German m ...

Marriage

On March 20, 1671, she married Charles Theodore, Prince of Salm. They had four children: * Princess Louise Apollonia of Salm, born 23 February 1672; died on 22 May 1678 at the age of 6.Geni
website * Louis Otto, Prince of Salm, born on 24 October 1674.Geni
website * Princess Louise-Apollonia of Salm (1677–1678) * Princess Eleonore Christine of Salm, was born on March 14, 1678; married Conrad Albert, first Duke of Ursel, with whom she had issue; and died March 23, 1737, at the age of 59.Geni
website

Ancestry

Notes and references

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