Life
Of Charles Philip's six children (five daughters and one Stillbirth, stillborn son), Elisabeth Auguste was the only one to reach adulthood. She was the third daughter of Charles III Philip, then Count Palatine of Neuburg, and his first wife, Ludwika Karolina Radziwill, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł. One of her sisters, Maria Anna, died before Elisabeth Auguste was born, aged one or two, and her sister Leopoldine died the year she was born, aged three. Her mother died on 25 March 1695, when Elisabeth Auguste was about two years old, and her father remarried when she was about eight years old to Princess Teresa Lubomirska. Her two half-sisters from her father's second marriage both died before turning three. In 1716, her father succeeded his brother Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Johann Wilhelm as the Elector of the Palatinate. By then it was evident that the Palatinate-Neuburg line (established by two grandsons of Duke George of Bavaria, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, Otto Henry and Philip, Count Palatine, Philip) would become extinct, as Charles III Philip and his brothers had all failed to produce a legitimate male heir. It was also obvious that the related Palatinate-Sulzbach line would succeed them. Joseph Charles, the eldest son of the Count Palatine of Sulzbach, was the clear heir. On 2 May 1717, Elisabeth Auguste married Joseph Charles in a move that united the two lines. The sons of the union would be the indisputable heirs of the Electorate of the Palatinate, preventing another Landshut War of Succession, succession war. However, all their sons died in infancy and only three daughters survived. Elisabeth Auguste died in childbirth in 1728. Her husband died the following year in Oggersheim. The inheritance of the Electorate of the Palatinate passed to her husband's brother, John Christian, Count of Palatinate-Sulzbach, John Christian Joseph's family. Upon her father's death in 1742, her husband's nephew, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Charles Theodore, became Elector Palatine, Elector. Their daughter, also named Countess Elizabeth Augusta of Sulzbach, Elizabeth Augusta, married Charles Theodore and became Electress.Children
She was married in Innsbruck in 1717 to Joseph Charles, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Count Palatine Joseph Charles Emanuel August of Sulzbach, son of Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach and Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg. They had the following children: * Charles Philip (1718–1724) * Innocenza Maria (1719–1719) * Elizabeth Augusta of Sulzbach, Elisabeth Auguste (1721–1794); married Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria * Maria Anna (1722–1790); married Clement, Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine * Maria Francisca of Sulzbach, Maria Francisca (1724–1794); married Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken, Frederick Michael, second son of Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Christian III, Duke of Zweibrücken * Charles Philip August (1725–1728) * a son, Pfalzgraf von der Pfalz (1728–1728) Through her daughter Maria Francisca, she was a grandmother of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. He succeeded Charles Theodore as Elector Palatine in 1799.Sources