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Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (German: Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and Elisabeth of Hesse, called "Frederick the Righteous" (German: Friedrich Der Aufrichtige; French: Frédéric IV le juste).
Frederick IV (born March 5, 1574, Amberg, Palatinate—died Sept. 19, 1610, Heidelberg) was the elector Palatine of the Rhine, the only surviving son of the elector Louis VI.
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Frederick V (German: Friedrich; 26 August 1596 – 29 November 1632) 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 V was the elector Palatine of the Rhine, king of Bohemia (as Frederick I, 1619–20), and director of the Protestant Union. Brought up a Calvinist, partly in France, Frederick succeeded his father, Frederick IV, both as elector and as director of the Protestant Union in 1610, with Christian.
Elector Palatine 1583-1610. Mannheim, a village in the Palatine not far from Heidelberg with a population in the mid-1560s of under a thousand, received a city patent in 1607 from Elector Friedrich IV, a year after he had laid the foundation for the Friedrichsburg fortress there.
The Elector Palatine, now based in Heidelberg, adopted Lutheranism in the 1530s; when the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine ( German: Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and Elisabeth of Hesse, called "Frederick the Righteous" ( German: Friedrich Der Aufrichtige; French: Frédéric IV le juste ).
