Rupert Prince Palatine

by Eva Scott

[...]revolt, threw the Emperor's ministers out of the Council Chamber window at Prague, and rejected Ferdinand as king. The Lutheran Princes looked on the revolt coldly, feeling no sympathy with Bohemia. They believed as firmly as did Ferdinand himself in the right of secular princes to settle theological disputes. They were loyal Imperialists, and hated Calvinism, anarchy and war, far more than they hated Roman Catholicism.[...].

352 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2015