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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.
Palatinate campaign. / 49.500°N 8.017°E / 49.500; 8.017 ( Lower Palatinate) The Palatinate campaign (30 August 1620 – 27 August 1623), also known as the Spanish conquest of the Palatinate or the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War was a campaign conducted by the Imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire against the Protestant ...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland. Bohemian Prince Rupert fought for the Crown against Parliament in England’s Civil War. This article appears in: August 2003.
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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") by her ...
Map 7 The Hundred Years War to 1360. Map 15 Russia, ... Summary. political development under charles iv (1346–1378) ... The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate ...
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).
Rupert remained in Charles's service until the end, marching out of Oxford on 22 June 1646, two days before the city surrendered, and was ordered into exile by Parliament. On his exile, Rupert joined the Prince of Wales at St. Germain (July 1646), where he was appointed mareschal-de-camp, with command of the English troops in French service.
