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Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (German: Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and Elisabeth of Hesse, called "Frederick the Righteous" (German: Friedrich Der Aufrichtige; French: Frédéric IV le juste).
Frederick IV was the elector Palatine of the Rhine, the only surviving son of the elector Louis VI. Frederick’s father died in October 1583, when the young elector came under the guardianship of his uncle John Casimir, an ardent Calvinist.
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Frederick V (German: Friedrich; 26 August 1596 – 29 November 1632) [1] [2] was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620.
Mannheim, a village in the Palatine not far from Heidelberg with a population in the mid-1560s of under a thousand, received a city patent in 1607 from Elector Friedrich IV, a year after he had laid the foundation for the Friedrichsburg fortress there.
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine ( German: Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and Elisabeth of Hesse, called "Frederick the Righteous" ( German: Friedrich Der Aufrichtige; French: Frédéric IV le juste ).
Frederick V (1596 –1632) Elector Palatine of the Rhine (1610–23) and, as Frederick I, King of Bohemia (1619–20) “The Winter King”. Knight of the Garter. Married Elizabeth Stuart (1596 – 1662) daughter of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland.
Frederick V was the elector Palatine of the Rhine, king of Bohemia (as Frederick I, 1619–20), and director of the Protestant Union. Brought up a Calvinist, partly in France, Frederick succeeded his father, Frederick IV, both as elector and as director of the Protestant Union in 1610, with Christian.
