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3 days ago · Duke of Prussia from 1618. George William I Georg Wilhelm: 13 November 1595: 3 November 1619 – 1 December 1640: 1 December 1640: Electorate of Brandenburg: Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate 24 July 1616 Heidelberg four children: His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. Also Duke of Prussia. Frederick ...
3 days ago · Appointed by Emperor Henry V in opposition to Duke Lothar. Otto was the son-in-law of Duke Magnus Billung and the father of later Duke, Albert the Bear. House of Mansfeld; Hoyer I, Count of Mansfeld 1115 Appointed by Emperor Henry V in opposition to Duke Lothar. Welf Dynasty Henry the Proud: 4 December 1137 – 20 October 1139
May 10, 2024 · She had intended to secure for the Allies the assistance of Ernest Augustus, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Germany and heir to the dukedom of Cumberland in the British peerage. The French began to suspect Mata Hari of duplicity, and on February 13, 1917, she was arrested and imprisoned in Paris. Officials blamed her espionage activities on ...
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May 13, 2024 · Caroline of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born May 17, 1768, Braunschweig [Germany]—died Aug. 7, 1821, London, Eng.) was the wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom who—like her husband, who was also her cousin—was the centre of various scandals. The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Caroline married George ...
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3 days ago · One of Brandenburg's earliest and most noted rulers was Albert the Bear, Count of Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, and Margrave of Brandenburg. He founded the Margraviate and established the House of Ascania, which ruled it for the next 170 years. Albert died in 1170. The first evidence of a settlement in the Berlin area, dates back to the late 12th ...
4 days ago · Prussian ambassador's letter to Frederick the Great [g] The Treaty of Breslau of June 1742 ended hostilities between Austria and Prussia. With the First Silesian War at an end, the Queen soon made the recovery of Bohemia her priority. French troops fled Bohemia in the winter of the same year. On 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa was crowned Queen of Bohemia in St. Vitus Cathedral suo jure. Prussia ...
May 2, 2024 · These are the ones of the last Duke of Brunswick (Braunschweig) and Lüneburg, Prince of Hannover, Ernst August III (1887-1953). He reigned from 1913 to 1918 and was married to Princess Viktoria Luise, daughter of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. The couple married in 1913, the last huge European gathering of sovereigns before the First World War.
