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Hace 5 días · Previous accounts have mostly assumed that the Palatinate's restoration was a central objective of Stuart policy, and that a diplomatic solution tied to the Spanish Match provided an alternative to war.
Hace 4 días · 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 initiator and locus respectively of the evangelical movement to mid-century, while Calvin emerges as the key ...
Hace 1 día · Although Imperial forces quickly suppressed the Bohemian Revolt, Frederick's participation expanded the fighting into the Palatinate, whose strategic importance drew in the Dutch Republic and Spain, then engaged in the Eighty Years' War.
Hace 4 días · The Lord Keeper, according to His Majesty's Commandment, declared, "That the King's main Reason of calling the Parliament (besides the looking on the Faces of His Subjects) is, to let them understand the great Engagements for the Recovery of the Palatinate imposed on His Majesty by the late King His Father and by themselves; and that ...
Hace 2 días · Nassau, originally a county, but part of the duchy of Franconia, developed on the lower Lahn river in what is known today as Rhineland-Palatinate. The town of Nassau was founded in 915. As noted above, Dudo of Laurenburg held Nassau as a fiefdom as granted by the Bishopric of Worms.
Hace 2 días · From the early 1620s, moreover, the English political nation was deeply troubled by the events in Europe and particularly by the seizure of the Palatinate. Arguably, the greatest fault line in English political life – and political thinking – concerned the means by which the Palatinate could be recovered.
Princess-Abbess Elisabeth III of Herford Abbey (r. 1667-1680), born Princess of the Palatinate. A highly educated woman, she made correspondence with some of the most renowned philosophers & intellectuals of her time, such as Anna Maria van Schurman and René Descartes.
