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Wilhelm von Brandenburg (30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm was the son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the brother of Albert, Duke of Prussia, and the grandson of Albert III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg and Casimir IV Jagiellon.
The House of Hohenzollern (/ ˌ h oʊ ə n ˈ z ɒ l ər n /, US also /-n ˈ z ɔː l-,-n t ˈ s ɔː l-/; German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors ...
Alexander Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm Graf von Brandenburg (* 30. März 1819 in Potsdam ; † 21. März 1892 in Berlin ) war ein preußischer General der Kavallerie und Diplomat.
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Elector Frederick William was born in Berlin to George William, Elector of Brandenburg, and Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. His inheritance consisted of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Duchy of Cleves, the County of Mark, and the Duchy of Prussia. Owing to the disorder in Brandenburg during the Thirty Years' War, he spent part of his you...
Following the Thirty Years' War, which devastated much of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick William focused on rebuilding his war-ravaged territories. Brandenburg-Prussia benefited from his policy of religious tolerance, and he used French subsidies to build up an army that took part in the 1655 to 1660 Second Northern War. This ended with the treat...
Frederick William was a military commander of wide renown, and his standing army would later become the model for the Prussian Army. He is notable for his joint victory with Swedish forces at the Battle of Warsaw, which, according to Hajo Holborn, marked "the beginning of Prussian military history", but the Swedes turned on him at the behest of Kin...
Since his capital Berlin had suffered greatly from the Swedish occupation during the Thirty Years' War, Friedrich Wilhelm commissioned the master engineer Johann Gregor Memhardt to plan a city fortification. Construction of the Berlin Fortress began in 1650 following the contemporary fortification model of bastion fortsin northern Italy. Large part...
In his half-century reign, 1640–1688, the Great Elector transformed the small remote state of Prussia into a great power by augmenting and integrating the Hohenzollern family possessions in northern Germany and Prussia. When he became elector (ruler) of Brandenburg in 1640, the country was in ruins from the Thirty Years' War; it had lost half its p...
On 7 December 1646 in The Hague, Frederick William entered into a marriage, proposed by Blumenthal as a partial solution to the Jülich-Berg question, with Luise Henriette of Nassau (1627–1667), daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels and his 1st cousin once removed through William the Silent. Their children were a...
Carsten, Francis L. "The Great Elector and the foundation of the Hohenzollern despotism." English Historical Review 65.255 (1950): 175–202. OnlineCarsten, Francis L. "The Great Elector" History Today(1960) 10#2 pp. 83–89.Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947(Harvard UP, 2006).Citino, Robert. The German Way of War. From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich(UP Kansas, 2005).He married Louise Henriette Prinzessin von Oranien-Nassau on 7 December 1646, in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 29 April 1688, in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia, at the age of 68, and was buried in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
Apr 28, 2022 · Hohenzollerngruft, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Brandenburg, Deutschland (HRR) Genealogy for Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt (Hohenzollern), Markgraf (1715 - 1744) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Their father, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Brandenburg was an army corps commander and Prussian Minister President from 1848 until his death in 1850. Wilhelm entered the military service in 1836 with the Garde-Kürassier-Regiment. He was later transferred to 2. Garde-Ulanen-Regiment and became the regimental commander in March of 1860.
