State · 1085 – 1803

Electoral Palatinate

A state of 1085 – 1803 — 718 years in Europe. The atlas records 13 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 9 people, 6 with dated terms. Its own article says it was conquered by Electorate of Baden.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 718 years; 1085 – 1803
Rulers: 9; the Count Palatine of the Rhine
Within it: 13; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Electorate of Baden, 1803. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Electoral Palatinate was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire until it was annexed by the Electorate of Baden in 1803.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Count Palatine of the Rhine - the office this state names as its head of state.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine	1195 – 1214	19 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine	1583 – 1610	27 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Frederick V of the Palatinate	1610 – 1623	13 years	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria	1623 – 1648	25 years	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria	1742 – 1777	35 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria	1799 – 1806	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

9 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1195 – 1806. Median reign 22 years. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Heads of government

The line of Elector Palatine, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Rupert I, Elector Palatine	lived 1309 – 1390
Rupert II, Elector Palatine	lived 1325 – 1398
Rupert	lived 1352 – 1410
Louis III, Elector Palatine	lived 1378 – 1437
Louis IV, Elector Palatine	lived 1424 – 1449
Frederick I	lived 1425 – 1476
Philip, Elector Palatine	lived 1448 – 1508
Louis V	1508 – 1544
Frederick II, Elector Palatine	1544 – 1556
Otto Henry	1556 – 1559
Frederick III of the Palatinate	1559 – 1576
Louis VI of the Palatinate	1576 – 1583
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine	1583 – 1610
Frederick V of the Palatinate	1610 – 1623
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria	1623 – 1648
Charles I Louis	1648 – 1680
Charles II, Elector Palatine	1680 – 1685
Philip William, Elector Palatine	1685 – 1690
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine	1690 – 1716
Charles III Philip	1716 – 1742
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria	1742 – 1777

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedBanner of the Palatinate · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedArms of the Electoral Palatinate (Variant 2) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sir Iain, Elemens by User:Sodacan
flag, undatedFlag of The Electoral Palatinate (1604) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sir Iain , inspiration from User:Sodacan

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1000 – 10991 row

Henry of Laach · ruler · 1050 – 1095

1100 – 11991 row

Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine · ruler · 1173 – 1227

1300 – 13992 rows

Rupert · politician · 1352 – 1410
Beatrix of Berg · ruler · 1360 – 1395

1400 – 14991 row

Frederick II, Elector Palatine · person · 1482 – 1556

1500 – 15993 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Frederick V of the Palatinate · ruler · 1596 – 1632
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine · ruler · 1574 – 1610
Palatine Peasants' War · unrest · 1525

1600 – 16994 rows · 1 wars and battles

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg · person · 1655 – 1720
Philip William, Elector Palatine · person · 1615 – 1690
Charles I Louis · ruler · 1617 – 1680
Palatinate campaign · battle · 1620 – 1623

1700 – 17991 row

John Jacob Astor · person · 1763 – 1848

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood718 years
stood longer than 93% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1013 – 1875, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1444, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q22880 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.