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- {geni:occupation} Duke of Cumberland, Earl of Holderness
{geni:about_me} Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria (German: Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Herzog von Bayern), commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 X 29 November 1682),
Duke of Cumberland
Earl of Holderness
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*'''Wikipedia:'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine English] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruprecht_von_der_Pfalz,_Duke_of_Cumberland Deutsch]
- Rupert, Prince (1619-82), third son of Frederick V, elector Palastine
(1596-1632), and nephew of King Charles I of England, born in Prague.
After a year and a half at the English court, he fought (1637-38) against
the imperialists during the Thirty Years' War. In 1648 he commanded the
portion of the English Fleet that remained loyal to the king during the
wars of the English Revolution, but in 1650 he was defeated by the
parliamentary admiral Robert Blake. After ten years in exile, Rupert
returned to England at the time of the Restoration. In 1670 he became one
of the founders of the Hudson's Bay Company, and part of the Canadian
territory was named Rupert's Land in his honor. In 1673 he sailed against
the Dutch as an admiral of the English Fleet. Rupert also conducted
scientific experiments and pursued the art of mezzotinting, at which he
distinguished himself.
- Of English protestant and catholic civil war fame.
- DUKE OF CUMBERLAND; KG
- Prince Rupert (1619-82), nephew and general of Charles I of England, was the son of Elizabeth (daughter of James I) and Frederick V, Elector of Palatine, king of Bohemia, and was born at Prague. He was employed (1642-6) by Charles I. In 1673 he became Lord High Admiral and conducted three furious fights off the Dutch coast in that year. In 1670 Rupert became first governor of the HudsonXs Bay Company. His last ten years were spent in retirement in the pursuit of chemical, physical, and mechanical researches. [The Home University Encyclopedia, 1946]
The Prince Rupert of the Rhine who fought on the Cavalier side in the English Civil War. Died before father, unmarried and without issue. {BurkeXs Peerage} [GADD.GED]
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1619 - 1682 (62 år)
