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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:02:54.781Z

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name: "Frederick V of the Palatinate"
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description: "He took a crown that lasted one winter. Frederick V accepted the throne of Bohemia in 1619 during a Protestant rebellion, was crushed at the Battle of White Mountain a year later, and spent the rest of his life in exile — remembered mostly for the brevity of his reign and the nickname it earned him: \"the Winter King.\""
tagline: "Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632"
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birthDate: "1596-08-26"
deathDate: "1632-11-29"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born at a hunting lodge in the Palatinate in 1596, son of an Elector and grandson of William the Silent, Frederick inherited the Electorate of the Rhine at fourteen and married England's Princess Elizabeth Stuart at seventeen. When Bohemia's Protestant nobility revolted against their Catholic king in 1618, they offered Frederick the crown, hoping he'd bring the Protestant Union and English support with him. He was crowned in November 1619, but his father-in-law James I opposed the move, his allies signed a treaty of neutrality, and Imperial forces crushed him at White Mountain exactly a year and four days later. Stripped of Bohemia and the Palatinate both, he fled to The Hague and lived in exile until 1632, when he died in Mainz after failing to persuade Gustavus Adolphus to restore him. His son Charles Louis eventually reclaimed the Palatinate in 1648; another son, Prince Rupert, became a legend; his daughter Sophia founded the Hanoverian line that would rule Britain.