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Rupert of the Palatinate (German: Ruprecht von der Pfalz; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany from 1400 until his death.
May 14, 2024 · Rupert was a German king from 1400 and, as Rupert III, elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1398. A member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, he was chosen king by the German ecclesiastical electors on Aug. 22, 1400, to succeed Wenceslas, who had been deposed the day before by the German princes.
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Dec 17, 2013 · Now, Rupert’s probably best known as a military man and for his involvement in the English Civil Wars, for he was one of the Royalist commanders. Something that should be made clear is that his cousins were the future Charles II and James II, who were at this time twelve and nine years old, and:
May 23, 2018 · The nephew of Rupert i, Rupert ii (1390–98), and his son Rupert iii (1398–1410), king of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (1400), expelled Jews from the Palatinate. In the course of the 14 th and 15 th centuries, however, Jews expelled from German cities managed to return and to settle in the villages of the Palatinate.
The Rhenish Palatinate's union with Bavaria was finally dissolved following the reorganisation of German states during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II. Today the Palatinate occupies roughly the southernmost quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz).
At the sieges of Louvain (1635) and Bfeda (1637) Rupert distinguished himself in open combat and learned the many fine points of siege warfare. In 1638 the young royal assumed his first command as colonel of cavalry in his brother’s ill-fated expedition to retake the Palatinate from the Hapsburgs.
A younger son of Elizabeth, the 'Winter Queen' of Bohemia, and a nephew of King Charles I, Rupert fought on land for his uncle throughout the Civil War (1642-49) principally as a cavalry commander, and became commander-in-chief of the Royalist land forces in 1644.
