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- Between October 1635 and August 1642, Charles Louis spent over two and a half years in his uncle’s kingdom, in which he attempted to procure military, financial, and diplomatic support for his restoration, and witnessed the final breakdown in the king’s relations with parliament before absconding from the royalist camp in August 1642 and returning to his family’s court-in-exile.1 Clarendon later wrote that the return of the young prince in England in the midst of the Civil War two years later...
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In 1644, Charles Louis returned to England at the invitation of Parliament. He took up residence in the Palace of Whitehall and took the Solemn League and Covenant, even though his brothers, Rupert and Maurice, were Royalist generals.
Charles Louis, the exiled Elector of the Palatinate, has been accused by successive generations of scholars of either harboring ambitions for his uncle’s throne, or having a long-standing friendship with leading parliamentarians which made his eventual allegiance an inevitability.
After living the first half of his life in exile during the German Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War, in 1649 Charles Louis reclaimed his father's title of Elector Palatine, along with most of his former territories.
Jun 22, 2023 · Parliament praised Charles Louis’s decision to return to The Hague, with the House of Lords recommending on 19 September 1642 (OS) that financial payments to the elector should continue as he ‘hath shewed his Respect to the Parliament, in going away, and not be employed against it’. 21 Eight days later, the Lords were presented with a ...
Nov 25, 2023 · There he distanced himself from the royalist cause in the Civil War, fearing that Charles would sell him out for Spanish support. In 1644, Charles Louis returned to England at the invitation of Parliament.
Jun 22, 2023 · Permissions. Share. Abstract. This work examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648).
Electorate. Next year the hopes of the large fatherless family rose; for Gustavus Adolphus's Swedes, fighting their way south through Germany, reached the Palatinate and forced the Imperialists to surrender Heidelberg. Nominally the Palatinate was restored to the heir, Charles's uncle Philip acting as regent for him. But Oxenstierna, the
