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Thereafter Ansbach was held by cadet branches of the House of Hohenzollern, and its rulers were commonly called Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach. On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of ...
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Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander ( German: Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander; 24 February 1736 – 5 January 1806) was the last margrave of the two Franconian principalities, Bayreuth and Ansbach, [a] which he sold to the King of Prussia, a fellow member of the House of Hohenzollern .
- 24 February 1736, Ansbach
- Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- 5 January 1806 (aged 69), Benham Park, Speen, Berkshire, England
- Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia
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In 1791, the last margrave sold his realm to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1796, the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph — the future Bavarian king— was exiled to Ansbach the French took Zweibrücken.
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1757: Christian Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1757-1791) (son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach) On December 2, 1791, Christian II Frederick sold the sovereignty of his principalities to king Frederick William II of Prussia. Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1398-1604), later Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1604-1791)
Ansbach, city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies on the Rezat River, southwest of Nürnberg. Ansbach originated around the Benedictine monastery of Onolzbach (founded 748) and was sold to a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern line (later margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth) in 1331. It passed to Prussia in 1791 and to ...
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Thereafter Ansbach was held by several branches of the House of Hohenzollern, and its rulers were commonly called Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach. On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Christian Frederick, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of ...
On 16 January 1791, Alexander sold his Margraviate to Prussia. The contract was arranged by Karl August von Hardenberg, who had been Acting Minister in Ansbach since 1790. Under the terms of the contract, Prussia paid the Margrave as compensation an annual stipend of 300,000 guilders.
