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Elizabeth (1596-1662) , queen of Bohemia; daughter of James VI of Scotland; represented the nymph of the Thames in *Daniel's Tethys's Festival at Whitehall, 1610; married, after the falling through of many other political plans, to the elector palatine, Frederick V, 1613; her husband chosen king of Bohemia, till then an apanage of the empire, 1619; crowned, 1619; found a temporary refuge with George William, elector of Brandenburg, after her husband's defeat by the emperor Frederick II at Prague, 1620; the seizure of her husband's dominions by Maximilian, duke of Bavaria, confirmed at the Conference of Ratisbon, 1623; named the Queen of Hearts for her winning demeanour; her cause ineffectually championed by her chivalrous cousin, Duke Christian of Brunswick, 1623; her charm immortalized in a poem by Sir Henry *Wotton ; lost her eldest son, 1629, and her husband, 1632, soon after the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen; levied a small army on behalf of her eldest surviving son, Charles Lewis, 1633, to whom part of the Palatinate was restored by the Peace of Westphalia, 1648; subsidized by William, first earl of *Craven ; deserted by her children, Charles Lewis allowing his mother to remain dependent on the generosity of Holland; granted 10,000 by the parliament of the Restoration, 1660; pensioned by her nephew, Charles II, who had at first looked coldly on her coming to England; bequeathed to her favourite son, Prince *Rupert , most of her jewellery, 1662; died at Leicester House, Leicester Fields, London, 13 Feb.
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