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After this unhappy dénouement to Charles Louis's participation in English politics, he at last returned to the now devastated Electorate of the Palatinate in the autumn of 1649. Over the more than thirty years of his reign there, he strove with some success to rebuild his shattered territory.
Charles Louis, the exiled Elector of the Palatinate, has been accused by successive generations of scholars of either harboring ambitions for his uncle’s throne, or having a long-standing friendship with leading parliamentarians which made his eventual allegiance an inevitability.
After living the first half of his life in exile during the German Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War, in 1649 Charles Louis reclaimed his father's title of Elector Palatine, along with most of his former territories.
Jun 22, 2023 · Parliament praised Charles Louis’s decision to return to The Hague, with the House of Lords recommending on 19 September 1642 (OS) that financial payments to the elector should continue as he ‘hath shewed his Respect to the Parliament, in going away, and not be employed against it’. 21 Eight days later, the Lords were presented with a ...
Jun 22, 2023 · This work examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648).
Jun 22, 2023 · When it was proposed in autumn 1641 that the Palatines could receive the Lower Palatinate in exchange for repaying Bavarian war costs, marrying a Habsburg princess and sharing the electoral title with Maximilian, Charles Louis regarded it as ‘the shortest way to obtaine Possession, which is said to be eleven points in the law’. 29 The ...
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Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 1617-1680' AN EARLY EXPERIMENT IN LIBERALISM By J. H. CLAPHAM Those who know their seventeenth century in England, or have read one recent novel, will recall the exiled Elector Palatine moving across the English stage and will remember who he was-the eldest survivor of the thirteen children of
