page_title: Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
section_title: Succession
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine / Succession
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Kurfürst Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg und die Kurfürstin Anna Maria Luisa. English: Portrait of Johann Wilhelm II (1658-1716), Elector Palatine, and his second consort Anna Maria Luisa de&#39; Medici (1667-1743).
context_page_description: Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine, Duke of Neuburg, Duke of Jülich and Berg, and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham. From 1697 onwards Johann Wilhelm was also Count of Megen.
context_section_description: As a gift to Johann Wilhelm and his new bride, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Johann Wilhelm's father ceded to them the Duchies of Jülich and Berg in 1679.
  Johann Wilhelm later also succeeded his father as Elector Palatine in 1690. In the Peace of Rijswijk (1697), he was restored to many of the possessions which had been taken by the French, with the provision that the Electorate of the Palatinate not revert to Protestantism. This provision did not make him popular in the Palatinate and with Protestants.
  During the War of the Spanish succession Johann Wilhelm received also the Bavarian Upper Palatinate, which was returned to Bavaria in 1714. He died in Düsseldorf and was buried in the St. Andreas Church. Having no son, Johann Wilhelm was succeeded by his brother Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine.
caption: Double portrait of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz and Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
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