Charlotte of the Palatinate (''Princess Palatine Charlotte''; 19 December 1628 – 14 January 1631), was the fourth daughter of

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(of the House of Wittelsbach), the "Winter King" of Bohemia, by his consort, the English princess Elizabeth Stuart. Charlotte was born in the

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, where her family had sought refuge after the sequestration of their

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during the

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. Charlotte's brother Charles Louis was, as part of the Peace of Westphalia, restored to the Palatinate.Georg Wilhelm Hopf: ''Bayerische Geschichte in Zeittafeln'', Schmid, 1865, S. 134

Biography

Princess Charlotte was born in

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, where her parents lived in exile after her father lost the

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and was driven from the thrones of both Bohemia and the Palatinate. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick IV and Louise Juliana of Nassau and maternal grandparents were James VI of Scotland and

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. She died on 14 January 1631, and her father, a

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, died on 29 November 1632, the year after her.

Ancestry

References

Bibliography

* Carl Eduard Vehse: ''Geschichte der deutschen Höfe seit der Reformation: 4. Abth., Geschichte der Höfe der Häuser Baiern, Würtemberg, Baden und Hessen''; 2. Th, Band 24, Hoffmann und Campe, 1853, S. 101 (in German)

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Simmern, Edward, Count Palatine of 1628 births 1631 deaths

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