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Frederick V

noun

  1. Frederick V15961632MGermanPOLITICS: hereditary ruler called the Winter King . 1596–1632, elector of the Palatinate (1610–23) and king of Bohemia (1619–20). He led the revolt of Bohemian Protestants at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War


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Frederick V. was of a free and lively spirit, of great goodness of heart, and regal liberality.

All these men were aided by the generous and enlightened patronage 41 of Frederick V.

"There is not a drop of blood on my hands," said the expiring Frederick V. of Denmark.

This square also is decorated by a monument standing in the midst, and representing Frederick V.

In 1757 or 1758 Frederick V. had suffered an attack of pleurisy, the natural consequence of his excesses.

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