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2 giorni fa · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
3 giorni fa · Louis XIV had pretensions in the Palatinate in the name of his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte, and threatened further annexations of the Rhineland. Thus, Frederick-William, spurning his French subsidies, ended his alliance with France and reached agreements with William of Orange, the Emperor and King Charles XI of Sweden , the ...
3 giorni fa · Review Article: Early Stuart Foreign Policy. Book: The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match. Glyn Redworth. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN: 300101988X; 214pp. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War. Brennan Pursell.
3 giorni fa · From 1708: Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate in the Trianon-sous-Bois wing; 1711–1712: The Duke and Duchess of Burgundy, son of the above and his wife; 1712–1714: The Duke and Duchess of Berry, brother of the above; 1717: Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia and his entourage; c. 1720: Madame la Duchesse, daughter of Louis XIV and Madame ...
2 giorni fa · In the early morning hours of November 6th, Charlotte‘s condition rapidly deteriorated. With a grief-stricken Leopold at her side, the princess lost consciousness and died at 2:30 AM, likely from postpartum complications such as a pulmonary embolism or amniotic fluid embolism. She was just 21 years old.
2 giorni fa · The Swiss Reformation. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN: 719051177X; 392pp.; Price: £49.99. The conventional textbook treatment of the continental Reformation reflects the tremendous impact of the sixteenth century’s two theological giants, Martin Luther and Jean Calvin. Luther and Germany receive the most attention as the ...
5 giorni fa · Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devout Catholics. In 1590, when Ferdinand was 11 years old, they sent him to study at the Jesuits' college in ...
