Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen

Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen was a state of the Holy Roman Empire seated in Gelnhausen in the south of modern Hesse, Germany.

Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
1654–1799

Capital
Circle
Bench		 Gelnhausen
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Partitioned from P.-B.-Bischweiler 1654
Duchy in Bavaria 1799

Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen was partitioned from Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler in 1654. It was a mediate state with few rights. In 1799 the Counts Palatine were granted the title "Duke in Bavaria" by their distant relations, the Duke of Bavaria, which, in 1806, became the first King of Bavaria.

These two lines are the only branches of the House of Wittelsbach which did not eventually become extinct.

Name

Reign

John Charles1654–1704
Frederick Bernard1704–1739
John1739–1780
Charles John Louis1780–1789
William1789–1799

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