Frederick V of the Palatinate
Elector Palatine (1610-23), and King of Bohemia (1619-20), the Winter King; died 1632 · Germany · Historical Figures · Lived 1596 to 1632 · aged 36
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Something wrong?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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Peter Oliver - Portrait of Frederick V, Elector of the Rhine Palatinate - Walters 38216
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Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
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Louise Hollandine of the PalatinateEdward, Count Palatine of Simmern
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Gustavus Adolphus of the Palatinate
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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 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.
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