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For other people named Elizabeth or Elisabeth of Bohemia, see Elisabeth of Bohemia. For the daughter of Charles I of England, see Princess Elizabeth of England
Elizabeth Stuart
Electress Palatine; Queen of Bohemia
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The widowed Elizabeth Stuart, 1642
The widowed Elizabeth Stuart, 1642
ConsortPalatine: 14 February 1613 – 1623
Bohemia: 4 November 1619 – 8 November 1620
Consort toFrederick V, Elector Palatine
Issue
Frederick Henry von der Pfalz
Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Prince Maurice von Simmern
Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern
Sophia of Hanover
Royal houseHouse of Palatinate-Simmern
House of Stuart
FatherJames VI of Scotland, I of England
MotherAnne of Denmark
Born19 August 1596
Falkland Palace, Fife
Died13 January 1662 (aged 67)
England
Elisabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (born Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland; 19 August 1596 – 13 February 1662) was the eldest daughter to James VI of Scotland and his Queen consort Anne of Denmark. She was thus sister to Charles I. With the demise of the Stuart dynasty in 1714, her direct descendants, the Hanoverian rulers, succeeded to the British throne.

Biography

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Princess Elizabeth Stuart, 1606, by Robert Peake the Elder.
At the time of Elizabeth's birth at Falkland Palace, Fife, her father was still the King of Scots only. She was named in honour of the Queen of England, in an attempt by her father to flatter the old queen, whose kingdom he hoped to inherit. When the younger Elizabeth was six years old, in 1603, her namesake died and James succeeded to the thrones of England and Scotland, making his daughter a much more attractive bride.

Part of the intent of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was to put the nine year old Elizabeth onto the throne of England (and, presumably, Scotland) as a Catholic monarch, after assassinating her father and the Protestant English aristocracy. At the time of the plot she was staying at Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire, from where the conspirators planned to kidnap her.

On 14 February 1613, she married Frederick V, then Elector of the Palatinate, and took up her place in the court at Heidelberg. Frederick was the leader of the association of Protestant princes in the Holy Roman Empire known as the Evangelical Union, and Elizabeth was married to him in an effort to increase James's ties to these princes. In 1619, Frederick was offered and accepted the crown of Bohemia, but his rule was brief, and Elizabeth became known as the "Winter Queen". She was also sometimes called "Queen of Hearts" because of her popularity.

Driven into exile, the couple took up residence in The Hague, and Frederick died in 1632. Elizabeth remained in Holland even after her son, Charles I Louis, regained his father's electorship in 1648. Following the Restoration of the English & Scottish monarchies, she travelled to London to visit her nephew, Charles II, and died while there. Her daughter was known later as Sophia of Hanover; pursuant to the English Act of Settlement 1701, the Electress Sophia and her issue were made heirs to the English & Scottish thrones (later British throne), so that all monarchs of Great Britain from George I are descendants of Elizabeth.

Ancestors

Elizabeth's ancestors in three generations
Elizabeth of BohemiaFather:
James I of England		Paternal Grandfather:
Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany		Paternal Great-grandfather:
Matthew Stuart,
4th Earl of Lennox
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Margaret Douglas
Paternal Grandmother:
Mary I, Queen of Scots		Paternal Great-grandfather:
James V of Scotland
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Marie de Guise
Mother:
Anne of Denmark		Maternal Grandfather:
Frederick II of Denmark		Maternal Great-grandfather:
Christian III of Denmark
Maternal Great-grandmother:
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
Maternal Grandmother:
Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin		Maternal Great-grandfather:
Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Maternal Great-grandmother:
Elizabeth of Denmark


Children

  1. Frederick Henry von der Pfalz (1614-1629) - (Drowned)
  2. Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617-1680)
  3. Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680)
  4. Rupert, Duke of Cumberland (1619-1682)
  5. Maurice (1620-1654) - (Drowned)
  6. Louise Hollandine (18 April 1622-11 February 1709)
  7. Ludwig (21 August 1624-24 December 1624)
  8. Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625-1663)
  9. Henrietta Maria (7 July 1626-18 September 1651); married Prince Sigismund of Siebenbuergen on 16 June 1651
  10. Johann Philip Frederick (26 September 1627-15 December 1650); also reported to have been born on 15 September 1629
  11. Charlotte (19 December 1628-14 January 1631)
  12. Sophia, Electress of Hanover (14 October 1630-8 June 1714)
  13. Gustavus Adolphus (14 January 1632-1641)

See also

Fiction

In WG Sebald's novel Vertigo (1990), a woman appears whom the narrator, travelling through Heidelberg by train in 1987, recognizes instantly "without a shadow of a doubt" as Elizabeth when she enters his carriage.

Biblography

  • Jessica Gorst-Williams, Elizabeth, the Winter Queen (1977) ISBN 0-200-72472-X
  • Josephine Ross, The Winter Queen: The Story of Elizabeth Stuart (1979) ISBN 0-312-88232-7, ISBN 0-297-77603-7
  • Carola Oman, The Winter Queen: Elisabeth of Bohemia (2000) ISBN 1-84212-057-3
  • Jane Stevenson, The Winter Queen: A Novel (2002) ISBN 0-618-14912-0, ISBN 0-618-38267-4
  • Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) devotes its early chapters to describing her 1613 wedding and the reputation she and her husband had in Europe at the time

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Elizabeth of Bohemia
Born: 19 August 1596 Died: 13 February 1662
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Charles I of England		Heir to the English, Scottish and Irish Thrones
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Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.) (August 16 1596 – November 29 1632) was Elector Palatine (1610–23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Fridrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619–20, for his short reign here often nicknamed the Winter King
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Frederick Henry von der Pfalz, (German: Heinrich Friedrich) (1 January 1614 – 7 January 1629 The Netherlands) was the eldest son of Frederick V, the Winter King, and his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I of England.
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Charles Louis, (German: Karl I. Ludwig), Elector Palatine (22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680) was the second son of Frederick V, the Winter King, and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King James I of England (James VI of Scotland).
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Elisabeth von der Pfalz or Elisabeth of Bohemia or Princess Palatine (26 December 1618 – 11 February 1680), Protestant Abbess of Herford, was the eldest daughter of Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, who were briefly elected King and Queen of Bohemia.
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Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria (German: Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Herzog von Bayern), commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 – 29 November 1682), soldier, inventor and amateur artist in mezzotint, was a younger
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Prince Maurice von Simmern KG (December 17, 1620 – September 1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine, was the fourth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of James I, King of England and Scotland and Anne of Denmark.
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Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (5 October 1625, The Hague – 10 March 1663, Paris) was a son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth of Bohemia.

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Electress Sophia of Hanover (born Sophia, Countess Palatine of Simmern; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714) was the youngest daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, of the House of Wittelsbach, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart.
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Palatinate-Simmern (German: Pfalz-Simmern) is one of the collateral lines of the Palatinate line of the House of Wittelsbach.
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James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scots as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I.

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Falkland Palace in Fife, Scotland is a former royal palace of the Scottish Kings. Today it is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and serves as a tourist attraction.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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