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In 1644, Charles Louis returned to England at the invitation of Parliament. He took up residence in the Palace of Whitehall and took the Solemn League and Covenant, even though his brothers, Rupert and Maurice, were Royalist generals.
After his death in 1632, Frederick's daughter Princess Elizabeth and wife Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, worked tirelessly to have the Palatinate restored to her son Charles Louis and the Protestant cause.
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.
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine ( German: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680), was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charles I of England.
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 ...
Nov 25, 2023 · There he distanced himself from the royalist cause in the Civil War, fearing that Charles would sell him out for Spanish support. In 1644, Charles Louis returned to England at the invitation of Parliament.
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Electorate. Next year the hopes of the large fatherless family rose; for Gustavus Adolphus's Swedes, fighting their way south through Germany, reached the Palatinate and forced the Imperialists to surrender Heidelberg. Nominally the Palatinate was restored to the heir, Charles's uncle Philip acting as regent for him. But Oxenstierna, the
