Background
Born in Düsseldorf, he was the tenth child but seventh son of Philip William, Elector Palatine and Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Born in Düsseldorf, he was the tenth child but seventh son of Philip William, Elector Palatine and Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Initially destined to the Church, in 1677 he was appointed Coadjutor and in 1685 Canon in Konstanz. Also, he studied at the Heidelberg University, where he was Rector in 1685. Later, Frederick Wilhelm abandoned the church career and entered in the Imperial army, where he obtain the rank of General.
He fell in the Nine Years" War during in the Siege of Mainz (1689), where, during a visit in the trenches, one arquebus shot to the head killed instantly.
He was buried in Saint Andrew"s Church, Düsseldorf.