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Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine by the Rhine (Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand; English: Rupert Maria Leopold Ferdinand; 18 May 1869 – 2 August 1955), was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne.
Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II [1] and Beatrice of Aragon, [2] daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as ...
British "Rupert" at Merville Gun Battery Museum in France British "Rupert" at Merville Bunker D-Day Museum in France Film prop from the 1962 war film The Longest Day at Airborne Museum of Sainte-Mère-Église in France. A paradummy is a military deception device first used in World War II, intended to imitate a drop of paratroop attackers.
Rupert of Germany (1352 † 1410), king of the Romans from 1400 to 1410. Or, an eagle sable, membered, beaked and langued gules; overall quarterly 1 and 4 sable, a lion or, armed, langued and crowned gules, 2 and 3 fusilly bendwise azure and argent. [citation needed] Christopher of Bavaria (1416 † 1448), king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
In August 1400 four of the seven prince-electors chose Rupert, Elector Palatinate as the new king. Wenceslaus did not recognise his removal but did not move against Rupert either. Rupert ruled for ten years until he died on 18 May 1410. After Rupert's death, two princes vied for the succession, both from the House of Luxembourg:
The third regiment was commanded by Prince Rupert who, in an early example of a manoeuvre he would become famous for in the English Civil War, ordered a flat out charge. Hatzfeldt's cavalry were driven out of the valley. As Rupert's cavalry debouched from the defile they were hemmed in by Hatzfeldt's superior forces. Craven led the Palatine ...
On 12 March, King Charles ordered Rupert to relieve Newark. Hastily returning to Shrewsbury from Chester, where he had been conferring with Lord Byron, Rupert collected a force based around his own regiment of horse, and musketeers detached mainly from two regiments from Ireland (Tillier's and Broughton's) which had recently landed in North ...
The County Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken had been created in 1410 for Stephen, the third surviving son of prince-elector King Rupert. [1] In 1444, Stephen inherited the County of Veldenz from his father-in-law, Frederick III, Count of Veldenz. In 1444, Stephen decided to divide his possessions between his sons, Frederick I and Louis I.