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5 days ago · House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and ...
5 days ago · Frederick William III ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved. Frederick William III ruled Prussia during the times of the Napoleonic Wars.
4 days ago · Stammliste des Hauses Nassau); ⚭ II 1723 Anna Sophie Charlotte (1706–1775), Prinzessin von Preußen, Tochter von Albrecht Friedrich (1672–1731), Prinz von Preußen, Markgraf von Brandenburg-Schwedt, kurbrandenburgisch-preußischer Generalleutnant und Herrenmeister des Johanniterordens (Haus Brandenburg-Schwedt, vgl. Stammliste der ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von Berg, auch von Berg-Markienen, (* 20. November 1866 auf dem Gut Markienen (bei Bartenstein ); † 9. März 1939 ebenda) war ein preußisch - deutscher Offizier, Beamter, Politiker und Freund sowie wichtigster Berater und Vertrauter des Deutschen Kaisers Wilhelm II. Außerdem war er ein enger Freund von Paul von ...
4 days ago · By Vincenzo De Meulenaere. On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a limp shuffled into the room to deliver a speech that would change the course of the land. The man was Emperor Charles V.
4 days ago · Friedrich August von Hayek Was an Enemy of Freedom. By. Ingar Solty. Today marks 125 years since the birth of Austrian-British economist Friedrich August von Hayek. He theorized the need to keep the masses away from the levers of state power — and did it in the name of defending freedom. Our new print issue, centered on the topic of religion ...
4 days ago · Während des Konzils zwischen 1414 und 1418 brachte man hier die hohe Gesellschaft unter, wie beispielsweise Friedrich von Hohenzollern oder den Burggrafen von Nürnberg mit seiner Tochter, die in Konstanz heiratete.
