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The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347–1410; By Ivan Hlaváček; Edited by Michael Jones, University of Nottingham; Book: The New Cambridge Medieval History; Online publication: 28 March 2008; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521362900.025
Mar 17, 2015 · The History Learning Site, 17 Mar 2015. 4 May 2024. Prince Rupert was the foremost Royalist military commander in the English Civil War. Prince Rupert was very much a cavalry soldier and the Royalists may have lost the war a lot sooner had it not been for his military ability. Palestine 1918 to 1948.
Dec 17, 2013 · The year 1644 was the turning-point of the war….Rupert was sent from Oxford to retrieve the situation, and in particular to raise the siege of York. At first he was singularly successful, for he compelled the Parliamentary forces before Newark to capitulate, and then captured Stockport, Bolton, and Liverpool.
Oct 24, 2019 · Summary. James I's daughter, Elizabeth, married Elector Palatine Frederick V on Valentine's Day 1613. This ‘Palatine match’ was one of the most spectacular events of the Jacobean age, allegedly costing over L93,000 or more than a decade's expenditure on all royal palaces.
Rupert soon realised that it was not, and ordered a withdrawal, which he covered from the south west of the city, where he fought the first battle of the war, at Powick Bridge (23 September 1642), a small battle, with only 1,000 men on each side, which Rupert won with a cavalry charge, much enhancing his own reputation on both sides.
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France. The Electoral Palatinate ( German: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate ( Pfalz ), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate ( Kurfürstentum Pfalz ), was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire. [1] The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of Lotharingia in 915; it was then restructured under the Counts ...
Palatinate , German Pfalz, Historical region, now part of Germany. The region was once under the jurisdiction of the counts palatine (secular princes), who in the 14th century became electors of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 16th and 17th centuries the Palatinate was a stronghold of Protestantism. It was divided into two parts: the Lower, or ...
