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Book contents. Frontmatter; Part I General Themes; Part II The States of the West; 13 The British Isles; 14 France; 15 Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch; 16 The empire (a) From Adolf of Nassau to Lewis of Bavaria, 1292–1347 (b) The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347–1410; 17 The Low Countries, 1290–1415; 18 The Iberian ...
Dec 17, 2013 · Prince Rupert, Count Palatinate. by Gerrit van Honthorst. Oil on panel, feigned oval, circa 1641-1642 29 1/4 in. x 23 1/4 in. (743 mm x 591 mm).
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Mar 17, 2015 · Between 1664 and 1667, Rupert fought in the navy during the Second Dutch War. During the Third Dutch War of 1673 he was appointed to the Board of the Admiralty. When he was not involved in some aspect of the military, Rupert had developed a passion for experimentation, particularly with firearms. He had his own laboratory at Windsor Castle.
Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun.
The next month Rupert took England’s second largest city by storm. In 14 vicious hours of fighting on July 26, 1643, the 23-year-old Royalist commander, leading each well-coordinated major attack on the town’s defenses, captured Bristol, giving his king a major port and a vital bastion in the West Country.
Oct 24, 2019 · The third part identifies the Palatinate's role in escalating regional problems into full-scale war in 1619. The final section underscores the Stuarts’ dilemma; there was no obvious way they could intervene effectively in continental affairs. Defining the Thirty Years’ War. To many Britons, the Thirty Years’ War was a struggle between ...
Jan 15, 2022 · Rupert’s Land and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, are named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine. Early Life and Exile Rupert was born in Prague, the fourth of 13 children of Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) and Anne of Denmark.
