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Personal data Elizabeth Stuart 

• She was born on August 19, 1596 in Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
• Title: Queen Consort of BohemiaSource 1
• (Crowned) on November 7, 1619: Prague Cathedral, Bohemia.Source 1
• She died February 1662 in Leicester House, Leicester Fields, London, England, she was 65 years old.Source 1
• She is buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.Source 1
• A child of James VI & I Stuart and Anne Oldenburg


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Household of Elizabeth Stuart

She is married to Frederick Henry of Wittelsbach.

They got married on February 14, 1613 at Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, London, England, she was 16 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. See notes below  

Notes about Elizabeth Stuart

Elizabeth
She was born on 19 August, 1596, at Dunfermline Palace, Fife. She married Frederick Henry of Wittelsbach, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and later Frederick V, King of Bohemia (1596-1632), on 14 February, 1613, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, London, and had issue:
1 Frederick Henry (1614-drowned 1629).
2 Charles Louis, Duke of Bavaria, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (1618-1680); he married firstly Charlotte (1627-1687), daughter of William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, and had issue, although they were later divorced. He married secondly, morganatically, Marie Susanne Louise (1634-1677), Raugräfin of Degenfeld, daughter of Baron Martin Christopher von Degenfeld, and had issue.
3 Elizabeth, Abbess of Hervorden (or Herford) (1618-1680).
4 Rupert, Duke of Cumberland (1619-1682); he married, morganatically, Frances Baird (d.1708). He also had illegitimate issue.
5 Maurice (1621-drowned 1654).
6 Louise Hollandine, Abbess of Maubisson, Pontoise (1622-1709).
7 Louis (1623-1624).
8 Edward (1625-1663); he married Anne (1616-1684), daughter of Charles I de Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers and Mantua, and had issue.
9 Henrietta Maria (1626-1651); she married Sigismund Ragotski, Prince of Siebenbürgen, Transylvania (1623?-1652).
10 John Philip Frederick (1627-killed 1650).
11 Charlotte (1628-1631).
12 Sophia; she married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, and became the mother of George I
(see here, under George I).
13 Gustavus Adolphus (1632-1641).
Elizabeth became Queen Consort of Bohemia upon the accession of her husband to the throne of Bohemia on 27 August, 1619, and was crowned as such on 7 November, 1619, at Prague Cathedral, Bohemia. She was driven into exile with her husband in 1620 after he was deposed, and was afterwards known as ‘the Winter Queen’. There is no foundation in the rumour that, after Frederick’s death, she married secondly William Craven, Earl of Craven. She died on 3, 12, 14 or 23 February, 1662, at Leicester House, Leicester Fields, London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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