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Soldier, statesman, privateer, and scientist. Signature. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 ( O.S.) [27 December 1619 (N.S.)] [1] – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) [9 December 1682 (N.S)]) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist ...
Jan 15, 2022 · Rupert returned to Europe in 1653 and became a mercenary. The Restoration Court. In 1660, the monarchy was restored in England, and Rupert’s cousin King Charles II became king. Rupert held the titles of Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness and was a prominent figure at Charles II’s court.
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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 ...
- 21 August 1400 – 18 May 1410
- Beatrice of Aragon
Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325-1398) "Rupert II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (German: Ruprecht II., der Harte (der Ernste)) (12 May 1325, Amberg – 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398. He was the elder son of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Countess Irmengard ...
Dec 17, 2013 · Something that should be made clear is that his cousins were the future Charles II and James II, who were at this time twelve and nine years old, and: Above all there was the boys’ hero and cousin, the dashing Prince Rupert, whose cavalry exploits gave promise of an early victory for the Royalists. – Charles II, by Christopher Falkus, page 20.
Oct 26, 2016 · Rupert certainly left his mark on the map of Canada. For two hundred years, from 1670 to 1870, the Hudson Bay drainage basin was known as Rupert’s Land, honouring the prince’s founding role as first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This vast territory ultimately became the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as southern ...
Soldier. Prince Rupert (1619-1682), Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Cumberland and Bavaria, was buried on 6th December 1682 in a vault with his mother in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. Born in Prague he was a son of Frederick V, sometime King of Bohemia and his wife Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), the "Queen ...
