Elizabeth Stuart

Elizabeth Stuart

▪ queen of Bohemia
born Aug. 19, 1596, Falkland Palace, Fifeshire, Scot.
died Feb. 13, 1662, Westminster, London, Eng.

      British princess who from 1619 was titular queen of Bohemia.

      The daughter of James VI of Scotland (later James I of Great Britain) and Anne of Denmark, Elizabeth in 1606 came to the British royal court, where her beauty and charm attracted much attention and where she soon became a favourite subject of the poets. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Philip III of Spain, and Frederick V, the Elector Palatine, all sought her hand. Her mother actively favoured the Spanish match, but her father, hoping to strengthen his ties with the German Protestant rulers, chose Frederick. After the wedding (February 1613), the couple left for Heidelberg. Their first child, Frederick Henry, was born in January 1614; their most famous son, Prince Rupert (Rupert, Prince) (q.v.), was born in December 1619.

      In 1619 the Bohemians, in defiance of their Habsburg king Ferdinand, offered the crown of Bohemia to Frederick. In November 1619 he was crowned king (as Frederick I), but in November 1620 the Bohemian forces were defeated by the Catholic League acting for Ferdinand (then Holy Roman emperor). Elizabeth and Frederick fled, ultimately finding refuge at The Hague with Prince Maurice of Orange.

      Elizabeth spent the ensuing 40 years in exile. Her eldest son died in 1629 and her husband in 1632. When in 1648 her second son, Charles Louis, was restored to the Palatinate, he ignored her pleas to join him, and in 1650 a pension from the House of Orange ceased. Help from England stopped owing to the English Civil Wars (1642–51) between supporters of Elizabeth's brother, King Charles I, and the Parliamentarians. In 1661 her nephew Charles II grudgingly allowed her to return to England.

      Elizabeth's letters were published in 1953, edited by L.M. Baker.

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