death of the electoral prince in 1700, a second treaty was signed, by which the crown of Spain was settled on the archduke; Naples and Sicily were again given to the dauphin, and some alterations made in favour of France respecting the other Italian dominions. In the meantime the Spanish court became a scene of intrigue; in which the Austrian party were supported by the queen and count Harasch, and that of France by the marquis de Harcourt, who by his insinuating address secured cardinal Portocarrero and other men of great influence. The king, wrought upon by Portocarrero, and disgusted at hearing that his monarchy was arbitrarily divided by the partitioning powers, determined if possible to defeat their purpose by bequeathing his crown and dominions entire to Philip, duke of Anjou, grandson of Lewis the Fourteenth.-CHARLES died november 1700.According to the president Henault, the order of his heirs was as follows1. The children of Maria Theresa, wife of Lewis the Fourteenth, daughter by the first queen of Philip the Fourth.-2. The electoral prince of Bavaria, whose mother was the archduchess Mary Ann, daughter of the emperor Leopold by Margaret Theresa, daughter by the second queen of Philip the Fourth.-3. The duke of Orleans, brother of Lewis the Fourteenth, and younger son of Ann of Austria, wife of Lewis the Thirteenth, and eldest daughter of Philip the Third.-4. The archduke Charles, whose grandmother Mary Ann of Austria, wife of the emperor Ferdinand the Third, was a younger daughter of Philip the Third-5. The duke of Savoy in right of Catharine his great-grandmother, daughter of Philip the Second.

HOUSE OF BAVARIA PALATINE.

DESCENT.

THE two houses of Bavaria and the Palatine of the Rhine derive their origin from Otto or Otho count of Wittlesbach, to whom the emperor Frederic the First (Barbarossa) granted the duchy of Bavaria in 1180, upon the expulsion of Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Bavaria. And, according to Busching, the emperor Frederic the Second in 1215 granted

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to Lewis, son of Otho, the palatinate of the Rhine; whose son Otho the Second in 1225 married Agnes, heiress of Henry count Palatine, son of Henry the Lion. From Otho it descended to Lewis the Second; upon whose death in 1294 his dominions were divided between his two sons.Rodolph, the eldest, had the palatinate of the Rhine and was also invested with the electorate. And Upper Bavaria was given to Lewis.-From Rodolph the palatinate passed to Adolphus, Rodolph the Second, Robert, Robert the Second and Robert the Third, who divided his domains between his four sons; of whom Stephen, the youngest, obtained the duchy of Simmeren and Deux Ponts, and was the founder of that branch. The palatinate descended to his eldest son, Lewis the Third, and from him to Lewis the Fourth-Philip the First-Robert the Fourth-and Otho Henry, in whom this line became extinct, 1559.-Stephen, duke of Simmeren, &c. alienated the duchy of Deux Ponts in favour of his second son, Lewis, who thus became the founder of the branch of Deux Ponts; and the duchy of Simmeren passed to Frederic, John the First, and John the Second, whose son Frederic the Third, upon failure of heirs to Otho Henry, 1559, succeeded to the palatinate. From him it descended to Lewis the Fifth-Frederic the Fourth-Frederic the Fifth, who married Elizabeth daughter of James the First of England-Charles Lewis the First -and Charles the Second, who died without heirs 1685.-The duchy of Deux Ponts descended from Lewis duke of Deux Ponts, son of Stephen duke of Simmeren, in succession to Alexander-Lewis-and Wolfgang.The last of these, who had the duchy of Neuburg from Otho Henry, Elector Palatine, divided his dominions between his five sons.-To his eldest, Philip Lewis, he gave the duchy of Neuburg, whose grand-son, Philip William became elector Palatine on the death of the above Charles the Second: and whose third son, Augustus, was the founder of the branch of Sultzbach, which succeeded to the electorate on the extinction of the line of Philip William in his son Charles Philip in 1742.-His second son, John, continued the line of Deux Ponts, from which sprang the branches of Landsberg and Kleburg. (Vide infra.)-His third son, Otho Henry, count of Sultzbach, died without male heirs. As did also his fourth son, Frederic count of Veldentz.-His fifth son, Charles, was duke of Birkenfeld.—On the extinction of the direct line of Deux Ponts in 1661, † Charles duke

+ Moreri dates it 1661 and Busching 1681.

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of Bavaria Kleburg succeeded to that duchy. And on the extinction of the Kleburg branch by the death of Gustavus Samuel Leopold, heir of Charles the Twelfth without issue 1731, it passed to Christian the Third of Birkenfeld.

Charles Theodore of Bavaria Sultzbach, was born 1718.-Succeeded to the palatinate and electoral dignity on the extinction of the Neuburg line in Charles Philip, 1742. And to the duchy of Bavaria in 1777.-Charles Theodore has no son; and the duke of Deux Ponts Birkenfeld is his presumptive heir.

HOUSE OF BAVARIA KLEBURG ON THE THRONE OF SWEDEN.

JOHN CASIMIR, duke of Bavaria Kleburg, of the branch of Deux Ponts, married 1615 Catharine, daughter of Charles the Ninth king of Sweden and half-sister of the great Gustavus Adolphus; by whom he had, beside other children, Charles Gustavus, who was raised to the throne of Sweden, 1654, on the abdication of his cousin-german, Christina, by the name of Charles the Tenth.

Charles the Tenth, king of Sweden and duke of Bavaria Kleburg, was succeeded on the throne, in 1660, by Charles the Eleventh, his son by Hedwige Eleanora of Holstein Gottorp.-Charles the Eleventh married the princess Ulrica of Denmark, and had by her, beside other children, Charles the Twelfth, who succeeded him in 1697.-That celebrated monarch was killed at Fredericshall in 1718, and, not having been married, he was succeeded on the throne by his sister Ulrica, who was before married to Frederic landgrave of Hesse, to whom she resigned the sovereign authority.—On Frederic's death in 1751 without children, the crown of Sweden passed to the house of Holstein.

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HOUSE OF UPPER BAVARIA.

THE common ancestor of the Palatine and Bavarian families was, as has been already seen, Lewis the Second, duke of Bavaria and count Palatine.Lewis, (who died 1294) dividing his dominions between his two sons, Upper Bavaria was given to his younger son, Lewis.-He married first Beatrix, daughter of the duke of Glogaw; and afterwards Margaret, heiress of William count of Hainault, &c. During his time Lower Bavaria, which had been the portion of a younger branch, devolved to him; and was again alienated by him in favour of his younger son Albert, who became count of Hainault in right of his mother: but it returned again to the house of Bavaria by the death of his son William without male heir 1417.-The emperor Sigismund would have granted it to his son-in-law Albert the Fifth of Austria, son of Albert the Fourth and Jane, daughter of the above Albert, count of Hainault. But it being a male fief, the measure was opposed by the German princes as contrary to the spirit of the Germanic constitution." Stephen, son of the above Lewis, dividing his domains between his three sons, Stephen the eldest had the duchy of Ingolstadt-Frederic had Landshut-and John had Munich.-The two first becoming extinct in 1445 and 1503, the whole domains devolved to Albert the Fifth, duke of Bavaria Munich. A regulation was afterwards made to prevent any future dismemberments. The electoral dignity was granted to Maximilian the First, 1623, on the forfeiture of it by Frederic elector Palatine.

From this prince descended Maximilian Emanuel, duke and elector of Bavaria, who was distinguished by the part he bore in the war for the Spanish succession in 1712.

He was succeeded in 1726 by Charles Albert, his son by Theresa, daughter of John Sobieski king of Poland; a prince who is brought forward by Johnson as an example of the adverse fortune attending on elevated stations, in his beautiful imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire:

All times their scenes of pompous woes afford,

from Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord.

He was raised to the imperial throne in 1742, and died of grief in

1745.

Charles Maximilian, his son by Amelia, daughter of the emperor Joseph the First, succeeded him in the duchy and electorate; and having no children by Anne Sophia of Saxony, he was succeeded in 1778 by Charles. Theodore, elector Palatine.

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HOUSE OF BOURBON.

THE common ancestor of the different branches of the family of Bourbon was Lewis the Ninth, who died 1270.-He had six sons-four of whom left no male heirs. His second son, Philip the Third of France, had four sons. (1.) Lewis, who died young. (2.) Philip, who succeeded to the crown, and was the father of Lewis the Tenth, Philip the Fifth, and Charles the Fourth, the last sovereign of the direct Capetian line.-(3.) Charles, count of Valois, father of Philip de Valois, who, (in opposition to Edward the Third of England) succeeded Charles the Fourth and was the ancestor of the three branches of the house of Valois, which terminated in Charles the Eighth-Lewis the Twelfth, the last sovereign of the line of Valois-Orleans -and Henry the Third, the last of that of Valois-Orleans d'Angoulesme.(4.) Lewis count d'Evreux, whose son Philip was king of Navarre in right of his wife, the heiress of that crown.-The sixth son of Lewis the Ninth was Robert de Clermont, signeur de Bourbon, who was the ancestor of the three houses of Bourbon Clermont, Montpensier and La Marche.-On the extinction of the house of Valois in Henry the Third, the direct line of Clermont having expired in 1487, the right to the crown would have descended to the second of these. But that having become extinct in Charles, duke of Bourbon, constable of France, who fell at the siege of Rome in 1527, and the direct line of La Marche being also extinct, it devolved

Or Saint Lewis.