
Also known as Charles Theodore, Prince-Elector, Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria, Karl Theodor, Charles Theodore
Elector Palatine (1742-1777), Elector of Bavaria (1777-1799)
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Charles Theodore (German: Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) was a German nobleman of the Sulzbach branch of the House of Wittelsbach. He became Count Palatine of Sulzbach at the age of six following the death of his father Johann Christian in 1733. With the death of his cousin, Charles III Philip, he became Prince-elector and Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1742, being eighteen. In his fifties, he became Prince-Elector of Bavaria at the death of another cousin, Maximilian III Joseph, in 1777.
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