Louis V, Elector Palatine

Louis V
Elector Palatine Louis V
Elector Palatine
Reign	28 February 1508 – 16 March 1544
Predecessor	Philip
Successor	Frederick II
Born	2 July 1478 Heidelberg
Died	16 March 1544(1544-03-16) (aged 65) Heidelberg
Spouse	Sibylle of Bavaria
House	House of Wittelsbach
Father	Philip, Elector Palatine
Mother	Margaret of Bavaria
Religion	Lutheran (from 1530s) Roman Catholic (until 1530s)

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. He was prince elector of the Palatinate. His parents were Philip, Elector Palatine, and Margaret, a daughter of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut.

He converted to Lutheranism in the 1530s.

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.^[1]

Louis married Sibylle, daughter of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria but had no children by her. He was succeeded by his brother Frederick.

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