Gustavus Adolphus Of The Palatinate
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Elector Gustav Adolphus of the Palatinate (Gustav Adolphus, Duke of Palatinate, January 14, 1632 - January 9, 1641) was the ``winter king'' of Bohemia, Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate (Wittelsbach family). He is the last son born to his wife. He is British Princess Elizabeth Stuart. Gustav was born in the Dutch Republic, where his family had taken refuge after the conquest of their constituency during the Thirty Years' War. Gustav's younger brother Charles Louis returned to the Palatinate as part of the Peace of Westphalia.
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Prince Gustav was born in The Hague, where his parents lived in exile after his father was defeated at the Battle of the White Mountains and deposed from the thrones of both Bohemia and the Palatinate. He was named after King Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, a close friend of his parents. His paternal grandparents were Frederick IV and Louise Juliana of Nassau, and his maternal grandparents were James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. His father, a Calvinist, died on November 29, 1632, when Gustav was a baby. Gustav died of epilepsy on January 9, 1641 at the age of eight.
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Carl Eduard Weese: History of the German Courts since the Reformation: Section 4, History of the Courts of the Houses of Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse. 2 Th, Volume 24, Hoffmann and Kampe, 1853, page 101 (German)
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Gustavus
Noun
- the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973 king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950 king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837 king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792 king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632 king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560
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- a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine