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Frederick died in Linz in 1493. He had been suffering from senile gangrene, a tissue necrosis that leads to parts of the body dying off due to an insufficient supply of blood and therefore oxygen. One of Frederick’s legs had become affected, and to prevent it poisoning the rest of his body it had to be amputated.
Frederick V was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign in Bohemia earned him the derisive sobriquet "the Winter King". Frederick was born at the hunting lodge in Deinschwang, Palatinate.
Frederick V, IV and III. Frederick, the fifth monarch to bear this name in the House of Habsburg, was the fourth Frederick to bear the title of Roman-German king and the third Frederick to reign as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1440 Frederick was elected Roman-German king by the prince-electors of the Empire.
Elector Palatinate Frederick V - the Winter King - would be an insignificant figure in the history of Europe were it not for the tremendous conflagration that he helped to ignite. Frederick’s conflict with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II over the throne of Bohemia plunged Europe into thirty years of savage violence, fiery devastation, and terrible privation during the first half of the ...
Frederick V was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620.
Frederick’s conflict with his younger brother Albrecht IV over their paternal inheritance culminated in 1462 in the siege of the Hofburg at Vienna, where Frederick barricaded himself in against his brother, who had successfully mobilized the Viennese citizenry against the emperor. After four months salvation appeared in the guise of a Bohemian army sent by George of Poděbrady,
individual; ruler; royal/imperial; Danish; Male. Life dates. 1723-1766. Other dates. 1746-1766 (ruled) Biography. Son of Christian VI of Denmark. Married (1) Louisa, daughter of King George II (q.v.); (2) in 1752, Juliana Maria, daughter of Duke Ferdinand Albert II of Brunswick Luneburg. Succeeded by his son, Chrisian VII.
