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 | | Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans), (May 27, 1652 in Heidelberg - 9 October or December 8 1722 in St. Cloud near Paris), a princess of the electoral family of the Rhenish Palatinate, became Duchess of Orleans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV of France. |
 | | When the Wittelsbach branch of (Palatinate-Simmern) became extinct in the male line with the death of Liselotte's brother Karl II, Elector Palatine in 1685, her brother-in-law Louis XIV claimed the Palatinate and started the War of the Palatinian Succession (1688 - 1697). |
 | | After the deaths of Liselotte's husband in 1710 and of Louis XIV in 1715, her son - Philip II, Duke of Orléans - became Regent of France (1715 - 1723), acting for the underage king Louis XV of France — and Liselotte became known as the First Lady of the Kingdom. |
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