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- The House of Mecklenburg, also known as Nikloting, is a North German dynasty of Polabian origin that ruled until 1918 in the Mecklenburg region, being among the longest-ruling families of Europe. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1909–2004), former Queen of the Netherlands (1948–1980), was an agnatic member of this house.
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As part of a feudal union under German law from 1160—at first under the Saxons —Mecklenburg was granted imperial immediacy in 1348 and its princely rulers styled Dukes of Mecklenburg. [2] Despite several partitions, Mecklenburg remained an integral state until the end of the monarchy.
Abraham Alexander, the Chairman of the Mecklenburg Convention of the 19th and 20th of May, 1775, was born in 1718, and was an active and influential magistrate of the county before and after the Revolution, being generally the honored chairman of the Inferior Court. He was a member of the popular branch of the Assembly in 1774-’75, with Thomas Polk as an associate; also one of the fifteen ...
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 ...
- 1167; 856 years ago
- Duke Borwin
After three centuries of partition, Mecklenburg was united on 1 January 1934 by the German government. During World War II the Wehrmacht assigned Mecklenburg and Pomerania to Wehrkreis II under the command of General der Infanterie Werner Kienitz, with the headquarters at Stettin.
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The German king Charles IV in 1348 made the Mecklenburgs dukes and princes of the empire. Mecklenburg became Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation, and in the 16th and early 17th centuries the region was recurrently divided into two duchies, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (the west) and Mecklenburg-Güstrow (the east).
We know from historical newspaper accounts that men in Mecklenburg wrote a document known as the Mecklenburg Resolves on May 31, 1775, setting up a new government that granted them more freedom than they had known under British rule.
