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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.
Jun 22, 2023 · 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).
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.
Charles Louis (1617 –1680) Elector Palatine. By the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Charles Louis was restored to the Lower Palatinate, and given a new electoral title, also called "Elector Palatine", but lower in precedence than the other electorates.
Jun 22, 2023 · When it was proposed in autumn 1641 that the Palatines could receive the Lower Palatinate in exchange for repaying Bavarian war costs, marrying a Habsburg princess and sharing the electoral title with Maximilian, Charles Louis regarded it as ‘the shortest way to obtaine Possession, which is said to be eleven points in the law’. 29 The ...
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
