Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg (28 August 1587 in Wolmirstedt – 1 January 1665 in Zinna Abbey) was a titular Margrave of Brandenburg, and from 1598 to...
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(27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608), of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death. Joachim...
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Frederick William (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia...
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Christian William may refer to: Christian William of Brandenburg (1587–1665), titular Margrave of Brandenburg and Archbishop of Magdeburg Christian William...
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the Lutheran Sigismund of Brandenburg, came of age and ascended to the see. Openly Lutheran Christian William of Brandenburg, elected to be archbishop...
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to the King of Prussia, a fellow member of the House of Hohenzollern. His parents were Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and...
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Brandenburg (German: [ˈbʁandn̩bʊʁk] ), officially the State of Brandenburg (see Names), is a state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland...
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Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt (14 May 1677 – 3 September 1734), a member of the House of Hohenzollern, was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt...
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Years' War. He was succeeded by Christian William of Brandenburg, son of Elector Joachim III Frederick of Brandenburg. In political respect the prince-bishopric...
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William (German: Georg Wilhelm; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of...
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Margravine consort of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by marriage to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by...
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Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (6 August 1644 in Bayreuth – 20 May 1712 in Erlangen) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of...
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Brandenburg-Prussia (German: Brandenburg-Preußen; Low German: Brannenborg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the...
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sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel. Born in Königsberg, Frederick was the third son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg by his father's...
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of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken: Margrave Leopold Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (29 May 1674 – 21 August 1676) died in infancy. Margrave Christian Albert...
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Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the...
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Sophie Elisabeth, the only daughter of Christian William of Brandenburg. She died in 1650 after twelve years of childless marriage. In Dresden on 11...
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The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) on the Luisenplatz in Potsdam, not to be confused with the gate of the same name on Berlin's Pariser...
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Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 till his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel. Born in Berlin, he was raised...
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Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (German: Katharina von Brandenburg-Küstrin) (10 August 1549 – 30 September 1602) was a Margravine of Brandenburg-Küstrin...
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and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. Sophie Elizabeth was the only child of Margrave Christian William of Brandenburg (1587-1665) from his first...
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Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1634: Albert II 1667: John Frederick 1686: Christian Albrecht 1692: George Frederick II the Younger 1703: William Frederick...
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privileges. Frederick William IV then launched a political counterattack. On 1 November he appointed his uncle Frederick William of Brandenburg, who came from...
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December 1619) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern. He became the Duke of Prussia through his marriage to...
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kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family came from the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia...
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September 1643), married Christian William of Brandenburg, son of Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg Heinrich Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel...
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was the eighth of the nine children of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, by his wife, Marie of Prussia. He was last child of his parents who...
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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...
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George of Brandenburg (German: Johann Georg von Brandenburg; 11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598) was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598)...
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The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave...
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