Frederick V, Elector Palatine

Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.) was Elector Palatine (1610-23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Friedrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619-20). He was the son and heir of Frederick IV and of Louise Juliana von Orange-Nassau, the daughter of William I of Orange and Charlotte de Bourbon-Monpensier. He was born on August 16 1596 at Jagdschloss (Hunting Lodge) Deinschwang near Amberg and died November 29 1632 in exile in Mainz.

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German - Elector Palatine - 1610 - 23 - Czech - King of Bohemia - 1619 - 20 - Frederick IV - Orange-Nassau - William I of Orange - August 16 - 1596 - Amberg - November 29 - 1632 - Mainz

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Frederick V succeeded his father as Elector of the Rhenish Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire in 1610. In 1619 the Protestant estates of Bohemia rebelled against the Roman Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and offered the crown of Bohemia to Frederick as an influential member of the Protestant Union, an organization founded by his father for the protection of Protestants in the Empire.

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Rhenish Palatinate - Holy Roman Empire - 1610 - 1619 - Protestant - Bohemia - Roman Catholic - Holy Roman Emperor - Ferdinand II - Protestant Union - Protestant

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After Frederick accepted the crown his allies in the Union abandoned him, and his brief reign as the King of Bohemia ended with his defeat at the Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620) - only two months after his coronation - and earned him the derisive nickname of 'the Winter King'. After this battle Imperial forces invaded Frederick's Palatinate lands and he had flee to Holland in 1622. An Imperial edict formally deprived him of the Palatinate in 1623. He lived the rest of his life in exile with his wife and family, mostly at the Hague.

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Battle of White Mountain - 8 November - 1620 - Holland - 1622 - 1623 - Hague

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He married Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England and of Anne of Denmark in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall on February 14 1613 and had, among others, the following children (see here for a complete list):

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Elizabeth Stuart - James I of England - Anne of Denmark - February 14 - 1613 - Here

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• Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617-1680), who gained a new title of Elector Count Palatine of the Rhine, Archtreasurer of the Empire, as well as most of his father's lands as part of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 at the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War.
• Rupert von Simmern (1619-1682), otherwise known as Prince Rupert of the Rhine, of English Civil War fame.
• Maurice von Simmern (1620-1652) who also served in the English Civil War.
• Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), who married Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, afterwards elector of Hanover, and became the mother of George I of Great Britain.