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The Monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order , a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea .
Frederick I was the elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick III), who became the first king in Prussia (1701–13), freed his domains from imperial suzerainty, and continued the policy of territorial aggrandizement begun by his father, Frederick William, the Great Elector.
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Frederick I, engraving, 1701. The most significant achievement of the Great Elector’s son Frederick (reigned 1688–1713) was to secure the royal dignity for himself as Frederick I, king in Prussia, crowning himself at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) on January 18, 1701.
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The Kingdom of Prussia functioned as an absolute monarchy until the German revolutions of 1848–1849, after which Prussia became a constitutional monarchy and King Frederick William IV appointed Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg Prussia's first prime minister (Ministerpräsident).
Crowning of King William I of Prussia as the German emperor, Versailles, France, 1871. (more) The Franco-German War of 1870–71 established Prussia as the leading state in the imperial German Reich.
When he died in 1688, the emerging Kingdom of Prussia was already becoming a formidable power in central Europe. His son Frederick I (1657–1713) successfully took up his father’s ambitions and in 1701 crowned himself king and proclaimed the Kingdom of Prussia, with its capital in Berlin.
Apr 2, 2014 · (1712-1786) Who Was Frederick II? Frederick II inherited the Prussian throne in 1740 and established control of Silesia in 1745. The Seven Years' War threatened to destroy Prussia's status, but...
