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Table of rulers. (Note: The current numbering system established for the rulers of Mecklenburg is based in the following: the Mecklenburgian group (Mecklenburg, and then Schwerin, later Gustrow and Strelitz) form one group of a single numbering.
This list of dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg dates from the origins of the German princely state of Mecklenburg's royal house in the High Middle Ages to the monarchy's abolition at the end of World War I. Strictly speaking, Mecklenburg's princely dynasty was descended linearly from the princes of a Slavic tribe, the Obotrites, and had its ...
House of Mecklenburg; Country: Mecklenburg: Founded: 1167; 857 years ago () Founder: Pribislav: Current head: Duke Borwin: Final ruler: Gustav Adolph (Güstrow) Frederick Francis IV (Schwerin) Adolphus Frederick VI (Strelitz) Titles: Queen of the Netherlands; King of Sweden Grand Duke, Duke and Lord of Mecklenburg Prince and Lord of Wenden ...
In 1160, under Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, Christianity and German domination were introduced. Przybysław (Přibislav), son of the vanquished Obodrite ruler Niklot, became Henry’s vassal and founded the Mecklenburg dynasty.
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Origins and history of the dynastic titles. Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. The full title of Niklot, ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg, was Prince of the Obotrites, Chizzini and Circipani, Lord of Schwerin; however these titles and territories were all lost following his defeat and death in 1160 to the forces of Duke Heinrich III & XII ‘the Lion’ of Saxony and Bavaria.
Adolf Friedrich VI (17 July 1883–23 February 1918) 1914–1918 [Son of Adolf Friedrich V] Frederick Francis IV (9 April 1882–17 November 1945) From 1918 District Administrator. Geni Project: Rulers of Mecklenburg - House of Mecklenburg. Wikipedia =====Princes (Kings) of the Obotrites===Name/Geni link (lived) Reign.
In 1871, while traveling with his family through the various German monarchies, twenty-year-old Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, the second surviving son of Alexander II, Emperor of All Russia, met his seventeen-year-old second cousin Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The two young people were descended from Paul I, Emperor of All ...
