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He was in fact elected, but did not get sufficient support from the Protestant Union and therefore lost against the Habsburgs and the Catholic League in the Battle of White Mountain.

Could the battle have ended differently? Could Frederick have managed to persuade other Protestant monarchs to support him? Bohemia was the most valuable part of the Austrian part of the Habsburg domains, so it would have been a severe blow for the Habsburgs to lose this area.
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