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Elisabeth of Greater Poland ( Polish: Elżbieta Mieszkówna; Czech: Eliška Polská) ( c. 1152 – 2 April 1209) was a Polish princess of the House of Piast and, by her two marriages, Duchess of Bohemia and Margravine of Lusatia . She was a daughter of Mieszko III the Old, Duke of Greater Poland and from 1173 High Duke of Poland, by his first ...
Elisabeth of Greater Poland ( Polish: Elżbieta Mieszkówna; Czech: Eliška Polská) ( c. 1152 – 2 April 1209) was a Polish princess of the House of Piast and, by her two marriages, Duchess of Bohemia and Margravine of Lusatia. Coat-of-arms of the House of Piast.
Elizabeth Stuart (19 August 1596 – 13 February 1662) was Electress of the Palatinate and briefly Queen of Bohemia as the wife of Frederick V of the Palatinate. The couple's selection for the crown by the nobles of Bohemia was part of the political and religious turmoil setting off the Thirty Years' War.
- 17 February 1662, Westminster Abbey, London
- Stuart
Elizabeth of Bohemia (Czech: Eliška Přemyslovna) (20 January 1292 – 28 September 1330) was a princess of the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty who became Queen of Bohemia as the first wife of King John the Blind. She was the mother of Emperor Charles IV, King of Bohemia, and a daughter of Judith of Habsburg, member of the House of Habsburg.
- 20 January 1292
- 1310–1330
- 7 February 1311
- 28 September 1330 (aged 38), Bohemia
Jan 1, 2024 · Princess Elisabeth will make history when she ascends to the throne as the country’s first Queen Regnant. A decade before her birth, the primogeniture was altered to allow for female...
- Rebecca Cope
Aug 20, 2013 · First published Tue Aug 20, 2013; substantive revision Tue Aug 17, 2021. Elisabeth, Princess Palatine of Bohemia (1618–1680) is most well-known for her extended correspondence with René Descartes, and indeed these letters constitute what we currently know of her extant philosophical writings. In that correspondence, Elisabeth presses ...
Elizabeth Stuart of Bohemia, the 'Winter Queen' Discover the romantic marriage and brave life of the 'Winter Queen', daughter of James I, and hidden figure of British history. She was named after Elizabeth I; according to pamphleteer John Reynolds, ‘She inherited the name and virtues, the majesty and generosity of our immortal queen Elizabeth.’.
