Sophia of Wittelsbach [SEP] mother
Sophia of Wittelsbach
Sophia of Wittelsbach (1170–1238) was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, who was Count Palatine and later Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon.
In 1196, Sophia married Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia; she was his second wife. They had the following children:
- Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt
- Louis IV (1200–1227)
- Herman (1202–1216)
- Conrad (1204–1247), grand master of the
the Holy Roman Empire Palatinate branch.
Christopher III of the House of Palatinate-Neumarkt was king of Denmark, Sweden and Norway in 1440/1442–1448, but he left no descendants. The House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken contributed to the monarchy of Sweden again 1654–1720 under Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII and Ulrika Eleonora. The Wittelsbach princess Sophia of Hanover (1630–1714) was the mother of George I of Great Britain; she died as Heiress Presumptive of Great Britain a few weeks before the case of succession. The line of Jacobite