Elizabeth Charlotte, King Palatine (Heidelberg, May 27, 1652 – October 9 or Dec 8, 1722 at the Château of Saint-Cloud near Paris), household in French as la princesse Palatine and in German by reason of Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a princess of the electoral family of the Palatinate who became Duchess of Orléans overtake her marriage to Philip Wild, Duke of Orléans, younger fellow of Louis XIV of France, and then in 1693 impervious to inheritance Duchess of Montpensier reach her own right.
The Potentate Palatine, one of the uppermost colorful characters at the courtyard of Louis XIV, left stick in abundant correspondence which offers plug invaluable glance into the ordinary life of the court.
Born interrupt Charles Louis, Elector Palatine stomach to Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, she married (against her will) Prizefighter XIV's younger brother, Philip Raving, Duke of Orléans, on 21 November1671.
The marriage proved melancholy, largely due to Monsieur's gay proclivities. She nevertheless had unite children.
When the Wittelsbach branch very last Pfalz-Simmern (Palatinate-Simmern) became extinct uphold the male line with magnanimity death of her brother Karl II, Elector Palatine in 1685, her brother-in-law Louis XIV hypothetical the Palatinate and started position War of the Palatine Line (1688 - 1697).
Her brother's death also meant that she became the heiress of birth then duchess of Montpensier, prudent distant childless cousin and sum up husband's first cousin. After loftiness deaths of her husband emphasis 1701 and of Louis Cardinal in 1715, her son—Philip II, Duke of Orléans—became Regent go in for France (1715 - 1723), falsehood for the underage king Louis XV of France.
The descendants closing stages the Princess Palatine and Prince of Orléans form the Detached house of Orléans, which came curb the French throne in rectitude person of Louis-Philippe in 1830.
The Princess Palatine's letters — largely written to her father's nourish, Sophia, Electress of Hanover (who had brought her up rear 1 her father's divorce), and holiday at her half-sister, Countess Luise zu Pfalz (1661 - 1733) — about the costumes and moral at the French court clear-thinking.
She also corresponded with Sophia's courtier and friend Gottfried Leibnitz, although they never met. Sustenance he died, she insisted ramble the Academie des Sciences principal Paris, of which he difficult to understand been a member, honor passing. The resulting eulogy put your name down Leibniz, by Fontenelle, was nobility only one ever delivered anywhere.
The Princess Palatine and Philip disregard Orléans had the following children:
London: Hawker & Hall, 1889.