PRINCE RUPERT

as a young warrior

Prince Rupert, the son of Frederick, Prince Palatine, one-time King of Bohemia and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter King and Queen.
Elizabeth was the sister of Charles I, the king who was defeated by the Puritan Oliver Cromwell and beheaded in 1649.
Rupert was a knight's errant and was captured by the Austrians, spending three years of his youth held prisoner.
After he was released, he was compelled to take up the cause of his Uncle, Charles I. He went to England and proved himself a worthy adversary during The English Civil War.
Today the English Civil War Society has reenactments.

The Sealed Knot- reenactment
and Prince Rupert's Bluecoats


Partial Chronology:
1619: Born in Prague, Bohemia
December 1635: Visited England for the first time
1639: Captured in battle and sent to Linz on the Danube, where he was the guest of the Archduke Leopold.
1641: Released after 3 years
1642: At 23 years of age, he raised King Charles standard at Nottingham
1646: defeated on the field at Naseby
1649: Charles I beheaded
1649-1660: Pirated for Charles II
May 1660: English Restoration of Charles II
1667: Governor at Windsor Castle
1672: Admiral of the English fleet
1682: Died Spring Garden, London

Rupert as a young man
Books about Rupert, Prince Palatine:

Rupert, Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
The Stranger Prince by Margaret Irwin
Prince Rupert the Cavalier by Clennell Wilkinson
Cavalier! by Elizabeth D'Oyley
Rupert of the Rhine by Patrick Morrah
Prince Rupert's Daughter by Elizabeth D'Oyley
A Royal Cavalier-The Romance of Rupert Prince Palatine by Mrs Steuart Erskine
Famous Cavalry Leaders by Charles H.L. Johnston
Prince Rupert The Buccaneer by Cutcliffe Hyne
Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers edited by Eliot Warburton
Warrior Prince, the Life of Prince Rupert of the Rhine by George Malcolm Thomson

Fiction
Cavalier's Woman by Jeanne Montague/ Joan Hunter
Cavalier by Jeanne Montague
For Young adults:
Lady Cavalier by Jeanne Montague
Lady Cavalier Rides Out by Jeanne Montague

Books About the English Civil War:
Cavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher Hibbert
The English Civil War by Philip Haythornthwaite

The land named after him:
Prince Rupert's Land