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Born into a royal family with powerful affiliations to many Protestant countries all over Europe, the dramatic change of the family fortune – the loss of the Kingdom of Bohemia and of the Palatinate – and the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War brought Elisabeth and her family as exiles to The Hague.
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A. Biographies of Elisabeth. laze de Bury, Marie Pauline...
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(Includes translation of much of the Descartes-Elisabeth...
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When the Wittelsbach line of Palatinate-Simmern ended in 1685 with the death of Liselotte's brother, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Louis XIV raised a claim to the Electoral Palatinate on behalf of Liselotte, contrary to her marriage contract, and began the Palatinate War of Succession.
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
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Coordinates: 49°30′N 8°1′E. 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 Union in the Lower Palatinate, during the Thirty Years' War. [1]
- 30 August 1620 – 27 August 1623
- Protestant defeat
Sep 9, 2020 · Elisabeth of the Palatinate and the Mind-Body Problem. Simonetta Carr. Wednesday, September 9th 2020. In 1643, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate asked the philosopher René Descartes for some explanations about his theories on the distinction about the body and the mind – the same mind he had made the starting point for the confirmation of ...
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Oct 25, 2022 · Elisabeth of Bohemia, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Princess-Abbess of Herford Abbey, Elisabeth Simmern van Pallandt (birth name) Family. Elisabeth of Bohemia was the third child and oldest daughter of Elizabeth Stuart, Princess of England, and Frederick V of the Palatinate. The couple had 13 children.
Jun 22, 2023 · 22 June 2023. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. 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).
