Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria

Charles Theodore
Painted by Anna Dorothea Therbusch in 1763
Elector Palatine Count Palatine of Neuburg
Reign	31 December 1742 – 30 December 1777
Predecessor	Charles III Philip
Elector of Bavaria Count Palatine of the Rhine
Reign	30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799
Predecessor	Maximilian III Joseph
Successor	Maximilian IV Joseph
Born	(1724-12-11)11 December 1724 Drogenbos, Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
Died	16 February 1799(1799-02-16) (aged 74) Munich Residenz, Bavaria
Burial	Theatine Church, Munich
Spouse	Countess Palatine Elisabeth Augusta of Sulzbach Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este
Issue	(see below)
House	House of Wittelsbach
Father	John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
Mother	Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne
Religion	Catholicism
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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 from his father Johann Christian in 1733, at the age of six. 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.