Note 27 — I DESCENT AND PARENTAGE; CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD (LEYDEN, THE HAGUE, AND RHEENEN, 1630-1650)

As to Rheenen, the best account appears to be contained in J. Kretzschmar, Mittheilungen zur Geschichte des Heidelberger Schlosses, pp. 96-132, which I have not seen. There seems at one time to have been a notion of making it over to Prince Rupert; but it afterwards became the property of Sophia, who says that it had cost 40,000 crowns to build (Briefe an Hannov. Diplomaten, p. 229). The Electress Sophia, not being able to sell the property at its estimated value, made it over to her son Ernest Augustus.