palatinate

What if instead of marrying Maria Theresa of Spain (while his brother Philippe married first Henrietta of England and after her Lieselotte of the Palatinate), Louis XIV married Henrietta (as her mother wanted) and after her death at a young age married the Princess Palatine, while his brother...

Philip William (1615-1690) Duke of Neuburg and later Elector Palatine was married twice, from his first marriage with Anna Catherine Constance Vasa he had one son, who was born on 18 July 1645 and died the same day. Say that their son (lets call him Sigismund Wolfgang) is healthy and lives to...

What the title says. I can't remember when exactly the marriage idea was proposed, but what if Marie were to marry Philipp of the Palatinate? Would he (with his territories near Marie's) be in a better position than Maximilian to defend them? How might this affect the future of the Burgundian...

OTL, the Wittelsbachs tried to get hold of the Southern Netherlands in the late 18th century. Unfortunately, Prussia and friends curbstomped that idea. I vaguely recall there may have been a suggestion that the Southern Netherlands go to a dispossessed Bavarian elector after the WotSS (Max II...

So, I see Pfalz survival threads with his brother, Rupert, duke of Cumberland, and nephew, Elector Karl II, but did you know that Eduard had a short-lived/stillborn son by his wife, Anna Gonzaga? The boy was born on the 27 December 1650 and died at some point in the course of 1651. So, let's...

Of late I’ve been looking at the last generation of Medicis to rule Tuscany, the three children of Cosimo III and his estranged French wife. All three had marriages where one of the partners had syphilis. None left children. Now, of the three matches – two (that of Giovan’ Gastone and his...