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Dec 17, 2013 · The year 1644 was the turning-point of the war….Rupert was sent from Oxford to retrieve the situation, and in particular to raise the siege of York. At first he was singularly successful, for he compelled the Parliamentary forces before Newark to capitulate, and then captured Stockport, Bolton, and Liverpool.
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Mar 17, 2015 · Prince Rupert was the foremost Royalist military commander in the English Civil War. Prince Rupert was very much a cavalry soldier and the Royalists may have lost the war a lot sooner had it not been for his military ability. Prince Rupert was born in 1619. He was the third son of Frederick of the Palatinate and Elizabeth, the daughter of James I.
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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.
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 ...
Prince Rupert. Prince Rupert (also called Rupert of the Rhine) was the most well known commander in the English Civil War. Rupert’s military ability as a cavalry soldier was of great benefit to the Royalist army. Born at Prague in Bohemia on 17 December 1619, Prince Rupert was the third son of Charles I 's sister Elizabeth (the "Winter Queen ...
Oct 24, 2019 · Summary. James I's daughter, Elizabeth, married Elector Palatine Frederick V on Valentine's Day 1613. This ‘Palatine match’ was one of the most spectacular events of the Jacobean age, allegedly costing over L93,000 or more than a decade's expenditure on all royal palaces.
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.
