
Frederick V of Palatinate (26 August 1596-29 November 1632) was the Elector of the Rhine Palatinate from 1610 to 1623, succeeding Frederick IV of Palatinate and preceding Karl I Ludwig of Palatinate. The nephew of Maurice of Orange of the United Provinces, he fought for Protestantism's sake in the Thirty Years War, and was deposed by the Holy Roman Empire in 1623.
Biography[]
Friedrich von Pfalz-Simmern was born in Amberg in the Palatinate, and became the new Elector when his father died in 1610. In the 1620s he gave support to the Protestant Union during the Thirty Years War, capturing Munich in 1623, but the Holy Roman Empire reacted quickly and he was deposed shortly after. He fled to exile in the hands of his uncle Maurice of Orange, and died in Mainz in 1632.