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Contents. The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia is the first complete and scholarly edition of Elizabeth’s letters, a corpus of c. 2000 missives, and allows us to trace both her wide network of statesmen, diplomats, mercenaries, and royalty, and also her gradual transformation from political ingénue to independent and influential stateswoman.
Mar 13, 2007 · Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia, daughter of King James the First. Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century by Benger, E. (Elizabeth), 1778-1827
May 17, 2023 · The family moved to Prague, where Frederick was crowned on November 4, 1619; Elizabeth was crowned Queen of Bohemia three days later. In December, their fourth child, Prince Rupert, was born, an ...
19 August 1596 - 13 February 1662. Elizabeth Stuart, the eldest and only surviving daughter of James I and VI and his wife Anne of Demark was born at 2 o'clock in the morning of 19 August 1596 at Dunfermline Palace in Fife. At the time of Elizabeth's birth, her father was King James VI of Scotland and had not yet inherited the English throne.
Jan 8, 2024 · Princess Elizabeth Stuart (Elizabeth of Bohemia) by Robert Peake 1603. After the death of Queen Elizabeth and her father’s ascension to the throne, Elizabeth was sent to live at Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire, under the care of Lord and Lady Harrington. The Harringtons indulged Elizabeth’s love of nature, establishing an aviary, menagerie, and ...
Elizabeth was the only surviving daughter of James I. In 1613 she married Frederick, the Protestant ruler of the Palatinate, an area of present-day Germany. In 1619, following a rebellion against the Catholic Habsburg rulers, Frederick accepted the throne of Bohemia. He and Elizabeth were expelled after less than a year, however, in one of the ...
The daughter of James I, Elizabeth Stuart married Frederick V, Elector Palatine, in 1613 and took up residence at Heidelberg Castle, where a magnificent garden was created for her. In 1619 Frederick was offered the throne of Bohemia, where the couple reigned until their defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620. The brevity of their reign earned them the nicknames Winter King and Winter Queen. The couple spent their remaining years in exile in the Dutch Republic, though Queen ...
