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  1. 2 days ago · Albert of Prussia was the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and the first Duke of Prussia. He belonged to the Ansbach branch of the dynasty. The Duchy of Prussia adopted Protestantism as the official state religion. 1525–1568: Albert I; 1568–1618: Albert II Frederick co-heir (son of)

  2. 2 days ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...

  3. 4 days ago · Germany - Hohenstaufen, Empire, Reunification: The nearest kinsmen of Henry V were his Hohenstaufen nephews—Frederick, duke of Swabia, and his younger brother Conrad—the sons of Henry’s sister Agnes and Frederick, the first Hohenstaufen duke of Swabia. Some form of election had always been necessary to succeed to the crown, but, before the great civil war, nearness to the royal blood had ...

  4. 5 days ago · Regencies of Prince Albert of Prussia (1885-1906) and Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1906-1913) His regency came to an end on 1 November 1913 when Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover's son, was permitted to ascend to Duchy following his marriage to Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

  5. 5 days ago · Thus came about the melding of Brandenburg and Prussia. Albert and Anna Marie had a son, Albert Frederick, who succeeded his father in 1568 and died in 1618, giving way with the ruling of the Duchy of Prussia to the Electors of Brandenburg. The duchy continued to be under Polish jurisdiction for a few more decades.

  6. 3 days ago · Germany - Carolingians, Boniface, Franks: By the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 8th, Merovingian authority throughout the Frankish world had been seriously diminished by internal divisions among rival noble factions. Although the dynasty would retain possession of the crown until 751, it was effectively replaced by a rising power, the Carolingian family, which controlled the ...

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  8. 3 days ago · Germany - Prussia, Napoleon, Reunification: The peace proved short-lived, however, for at the end of 1798 a new coalition directed against France was formed (the War of the Second Coalition, 1798–1802). This time Prussia remained neutral. Frederick William III, a conscientious and modest but ineffectual ruler, was notable for private morality rather than political skill. The government in ...

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