Prince Rupert
The Prince Rupert of the Rhine (German: Prinz Ruprecht von der Pfalz) (December 17th 1619 - November 19th 1682), Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Cumberland, was a soldier and an inventor.
Born with Prague, it is youngest wire of Frederic V of Palatinat and Elisabeth of England and the nephew of Charles I {{er}}, which it made duke of Cumberland and Count de Holderness. Charles Ier named it ordering royalist cavalry , the Cavaliers , lasting the First revolution English.
Career post-Restoration
Prince Rupert helped to finance North-American forwardings of Pierre-Spirit Radisson and Medard Chouart of the Currant bushes. The voyages of these two explorers are at the origin of the foundation, in 1670, of the Compagnie of Hudson Bay whose prince Rupert becomes the first governor. The Company obtains the exclusiveness in the commercial laws on an immense territory, known under the name of Ground of Rupert, which surrounds the Hudson Bay and extends largely towards the west. In 1869, the governments British and Canadian recover the control of this territory.
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