• I was elector palatine of the Rhine between 1610 and 1623.
  • I was king of bohemia between 1619 and 1620 – for one winter, hence the sobriquet applied to me.
  • I had been chosen by the Protestant Bohemians as ruler after the deposition of the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II.
  • My selection was the cause of the Thirty Years War.
  • I was defeated by the army of the Catholic league at the Battle of the White Mountain, near Prague, in November 1620.
  • Following this defeat I fled to Holland where I remained until my death.

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