Luise Marie of the Palatinate

Luise Marie of the Palatinate was a Palatine princess who married Charles Theodore, the Prince of Salm-Salm. A great-granddaughter of James I of England and niece of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, she and her family, as Catholics, were excluded from the line of succession to the British throne.

Early life

She was the eldest daughter of the landless Prince Palatine Edward and his French-Italian wife, Anna Gonzaga. She was probably named after her mother's sister, Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, Queen of Poland. Her younger sisters were Anne Henriette, wife of Henri Jules, Prince de Condé and Benedicta Henrietta, wife of John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. On her father's side, she was a first cousin of George I of Great Britain and Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans.

Marriage

On 20 March 1671, she married Charles Theodore, Prince of Salm, member of the House of Salm. They had four children:

Princess Louise Apollonia of Salm, died at the age of 6.
Louis Otto, Prince of Salm
Princess Louise-Apollonia of Salm
Princess Eleonore Christine of Salm ; married Conrad Albert, first Duke of Ursel. They had three children.