Frederick V of the Palatinate
Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632
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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."
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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 a…
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