Frederick Henry von der Pfalz

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Frederick Henry with his mother, c. 1615, in a drawing by Nicholas Hilliard.
Frederick Henry with his mother, c. 1615, in a drawing by Nicholas Hilliard.

Frederick Henry von der Pfalz, (German: Heinrich Friedrich) (1 January 16147 January 1629 The Netherlands) was the eldest son of Frederick V, the Winter King, and his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I of England.

Frederick Henry drowned at the age of 15. He was on his way to Amsterdam to see the captured Spanish treasure fleet there and drowned crossing the Haarlemmermeer.

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