Background
Gustavus was born up in the Dutch Republic, where her family had sought refuge after the sequestration of their Electorate during the Thirty Years" War.
Gustavus was born up in the Dutch Republic, where her family had sought refuge after the sequestration of their Electorate during the Thirty Years" War.
Gustavus"s brother Charles Louis was, as part of the Peace of Westphalia, restored to the Palatinate. His father, a Calvinist, died on 29 November 1632, when Gustavus was a baby. Gustavus died of epilepsy on 9 January 1641, at age 8 years old.