Prince Rupert Biography

Prince Rupert biography

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NAME: Prince Rupert
OCCUPATION: Military Leader, Duke, Prince
BIRTH DATE: December 17, 1619
DEATH DATE: November 29, 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH: Prague, Czech Republic
PLACE OF DEATH: Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
AKA: Prince Rupert of the Rhine
AKA: Duke of Bavaria
AKA: 1st Duke of Cumberland

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Prince Rupert, a 17th century soldier, statesman and scientist, is best known for his talent as a Royalist commander of the English Civil War (1642 - 1651).

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Prince Rupert, 17th century soldier and statesman, is best known for his talent as a Royalist commander of the English Civil War (1642 - 1651). His family fled Bohemia to the Dutch Republic where Rupert grew up. He fought in the Thirty Years' war, the Eighty Years' War and in the Third Anglo-Dutch wars eventually settling in England to pursue scientific invention and art until his death in 1682.