WI: Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern, dies in 1670

That's sort of crack at a "Rupertine Wittelsbachs on the English throne" challenge.
This guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henry,_Count_Palatine_of_Simmern-Kaiserslautern
was a first cousin to Rupert and Charles-Louis of Palatinate, and held a von Simmern secundogeniture.
So WI he dies a bit earlier than in OTL, so on asking Rupert to marry and produce a spare legitimate heir for Palatinate in the beginning of 1670ies Charles-Louis may offer something Rupert lacks desperately - land AND proper princely title. Bonus points if Rupert upon accepting the offer marries a WIDOW of Louis Henry - Maria of Nassau, the youngest aunt of Willem III of Orange since it may create some MASSIVE butterflies for Third Anglo-Dutch War (even in case Rupert accepts title and marriage offer but stays at English court, despite being titular landholder in Germany).
In 1685 Palatinate is inherited by a son of Rupert and Maria (let's name him Frederick after both the Winter King and Maria's father), born in 1671 (or maybe married Rupert won't go to theatre in 1682 and won't get pneumonia, thus living five-six years more that he did OTL (longevity of his sisters Louise-Hollandine and Sophia is highly impossible with Rupert's wounds, but five or six years more than he lived OTL is reality).
I think that the Rupert of Rhine, Duke of Simmern-Kaiserslautern timeline was never tried here:) So here's my attempt to collect feedback for trying one.
 
Interesting. Very interesting. It would be hard for even Charles Louis to deny the justice of such a reversion as a secundature.

An interesting facet, is that if such a settlement did allow Rupert to marry, and he had issue, a lawful protestant son, such issue would have a claim much superior to Sophie to the British crowns (as you say), but would also prevent the merging of the Palatine into the Bavarian line. Double interesting.

Issue, a daughter, the Palatine merges as OTL, but the British claim is still good
 
The son is more interesting, cause merging as OTL BUT with Rupertine Wittelsbachs is "Rupert recognizing his secret marriage to Frances Bard in 1664". Marriage to the daughter of mere Viscount will be legal in England but illegal in Germany, thus Dudley, son of Rupert and Frances, will be able to inherit the title of Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness, but won't be able to inherit anything in Germany cause his mother was a low born (there was a loophole with imperial tax that allowed such morganatic marriages to be recognized as legal, basically "buying" the Imperial diginity for wives (a marriage of Prince of Anhalt-Dessau to the daughter of postman springs to mind) but I don't think Rupert will have money and/or interest in paying such a tax for Frances).
If the marriage is recognized AND Dudley doesn't die in Hungary as OTL, we can have King Dudley the 1st on English throne in 1715 (Duke Dudley Cumberland will be 51 years old by then, being born in 1666). Another funny thing with such marriage being legal yet morganatic by German standards is - a)we don't have Prince George of Denmark titled Duke of Cumberland (he may be granted a new title - Duke of Glouchester or Duke of Clarence); b) Dudley, Earl of Holderness, may marry one of illegitimate daughters of Charles II.
This one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Lee,_Countess_of_Lichfield
is the most interesting candidate. As you can see from her fertility, her marriage to Dudley means that the Dukes of Cumberland will never be on the verge of extinction.

In fact, I may try to write timeline on one of two PODs (Rupert gets a Palatinate secundogeniture after death of his cousin OR Rupert's marriage to Frances Bard is recognized). Or maybe merge them in "bi-POD" timeline (Rupert being granted secundogeniture in 1674 after being married to Frances Bard for 10 years and using the income from secundogeniture to pay the Imperial tax required for marriage with Frances to be recognized legal in Germany).
 
we can have King Dudley the 1st on English throne in 1715

An admittedly trivial point and apologies for the tangent, but - Dudley Rupert Bard despised his first name; if the crown came to him, he would Anglicise his middle name and reign as Robert IV.

Otherwise, interesting discussion :)
 
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