Name Louis Elector | ||
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Born 2 July 1478Heidelberg ( 1478-07-02 ) Role Former Count Palatine of the Rhine Previous office Count Palatine of the Rhine (1508–1544) Parents Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Philip, Elector Palatine Grandparents Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou Great-grandparents Antipope Felix V, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria | ||
Similar Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising), George of the Palatinate, Amalie of the Palatinate Similar 16 March 1544 (aged 65) Heidelberg | ||
Louis V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (German: Ludwig V. von der Pfalz) (2 July 1478, in Heidelberg – 16 March 1544, in Heidelberg), also Louis the Pacific, was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was prince elector of the Palatinate. His parents were Philip, Elector Palatine, and Margaret, a daughter of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut.
Biography
Louis succeeded his father in 1508 and had to cope with the consequences of the lost Landshut War of Succession against Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. With the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in 1518 Louis achieved the annulment of the Imperial Ban against the Palatinate. In 1519 Louis voted for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
During the German Peasants' War, Louis found himself surrounded by 8,000 armed peasants in Neustadt, where he invited their leaders to dinner and complied with their demands.
Louis married Sibylle, daughter of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria but had no children by her. He was succeeded by his brother Frederick.