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Who did Elizabeth of Bohemia marry?

 
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Her beauty attracted most of the royal suitors of Europe (she was nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts" ), but she was married (1613) to Frederick V, elector palatine (see Frederick the Winter King ) in order to cement an alliance between English and German Protestantism.

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