Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of Veldenz


Leopold Louis was the Duke of Veldenz from 1634 until 1694.

Life

Leopold Louis was born in Lauterecken in 1625 as the youngest son of George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz, from his second marriage to Maria Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, daughter of Duke John I.
After his father's death in 1634 he succeeded him as his elder brothers had already died. During the Thirty Years' War his lands were occupied, and again during the Nine Years' War by Swedish, Spanish and later French soldiers. Leopold Louis died in Strasbourg in 1694 and was buried in Lützelstein. As he had no surviving sons, Veldenz was inherited by the Palatinate-Kleeburg line, the head of which was Charles XI, king of Sweden.

Marriage

Leopold Louis married Agathe Christine, the youngest daughter of Count Philip Wolfgang of Hanau-Lichtenberg, on 4 Jul 1648 and had the following children:
  1. unnamed daughter
  2. Anne Sophie
  3. Gustav Philip
  4. Elisabeth Johanna
  5. Christine
  6. Christine Louise
  7. Christian Louis
  8. Dorothea
  9. Leopold Louis
  10. Charles George
  11. Agatha Eleanore
  12. Augustus Leopold