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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Princess Elizabeth Stuart was buried in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. She was the only surviving daughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England and his wife Anne of Denmark. She was born at Falkland Palace in August 1596.
Introduction. When Elizabeth Stuart died in 1662, having returned to England the previous year after forty years of exile, she had been welcomed into the world as the daughter of Scotland, been heir apparent to the three thrones of the Stuart kingdom, became Electress Palatine of the Rhine and Queen of Bohemia, brought on the Thirty Years ...
Then, during her marriage to Frederick, Count of the Palatine of the Rhine, Elizabeth became Queen of Bohemia for just one year, earning herself the title, The Winter Queen. Elizabeth may have been a thwarted Queen, however, she continued to be a forceful and energetic ruler who fought for her children’s territorial rights.
May 17, 2023 · The “Winter Queen” of Bohemia. Elizabeth and Frederick spent six years living in Heidelberg, where they had three children. In 1619, Bohemian Protestant nobles, revolting against the Catholic...
Jan 8, 2024 · In adulthood, Elizabeth became a prominent champion for the Protestant cause in Europe and briefly reigned as the titular Queen of Bohemia. Her husband’s rule in Bohemia lasted just one winter, earning Elizabeth the nickname of ‘the Winter Queen’.
The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia is the first complete and scholarly edition of Elizabeth’s letters, a corpus of c. 2000 missives, and allows us to trace both her wide network of statesmen, diplomats, mercenaries, and royalty, and also her gradual transformation from political ingénue to independent and influential ...
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.
