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2 days ago · He will meet more resistance, on the other hand, in making his further claim that in pursuing the Match the English were prepared to sacrifice the interests of James's son-in-law, Frederick V Elector Palatine, whose principality had been conquered by Spanish and other Catholic armies.
May 21, 2024 · Bavaria was able to keep the Upper Palatinate, while the Rhenish Palatinate was restored to Charles Louis, the son of the elector palatine Frederick V. Two other important results of the territorial settlement were the confirmation of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Swiss Confederation as independent republics, thus formally ...
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5 days ago · To summarize the story told in Pauline's link: In February 1613 (at sixteen) she married Frederick V, the Elector Palatine (ruler of the Palatinate, a major German state on the Rhine, and one of the seven men who traditionally elected the Holy Roman Emperor); when he was offered the crown of Bohemia by the Czechs rebelling against the Catholic ...
May 14, 2024 · The House of Wittelsbach has held the County Palatine since 1214, but inherits England and Scotland only at the death of Elizabeth (not till 1662, OTL). Henry Frederick would inherit the County and Electorate when his father Frederick V dies (1632 OTL), though not actual possession.
16 hours ago · Another option was Frederick V, Elector Palatine, a Calvinist who succeeded his father in 1610, and in 1613 married Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England. Four of the electors were Catholic, and three were Protestant; if this balance changed, it would potentially result in the election of a Protestant emperor.
16 hours ago · Clarendon sold the estate in April 1667 to Sir Jeremy Whichcott (Whichcote) of Hendon, who had been Solicitor-General to the Prince Elector Palatine, Charles Lewis, son of Frederick V. In the following September a patent was issued constituting the Fleet Prison to be at Caron House and granting the office of warden to Sir Jeremy.
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6 days ago · Rupert's father was Frederick V of the Palatinate, of the Palatinate-Simmern branch of the House of Wittelsbach. As Elector Palatine, Frederick was one of the most important princes of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also head of the Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states.
