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    Bernhard (c. 1140– 2 February 1212), a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, and Lord of Bernburg through his paternal...
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    of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt from 1212 and the first ruling Anhalt prince from 1218 until his death. He was the oldest son of Count Bernhard...
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    Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (died 20 August 1348) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg...
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  • deposed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. In 1180, Albert's son Bernhard, Count of Anhalt received the remaining Saxon territories around Wittenberg and...
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    Saxony-Anhalt. Under the rule of the House of Ascania, the Anhalt territory was split off the German stem duchy of Saxony in 1212 and granted to Count Henry...
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  • Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (c. 1218–1287) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg. He was...
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    Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (ca. 1260 or 1265 – aft. 26 December 1323), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality...
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    George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau (21 February 1796 – 16 October 1865), was a German prince of the House of Ascania from the Anhalt-Dessau branch. He was...
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    I and Bernhard VII, to inherit Anhalt-Plötzkau in 1553, while the death of his uncle Joachim I permitted him and his surviving brother Bernhard VII to...
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    found in the coat of arms of Saxony. Legend has it that at the investiture of Bernhard, Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, as Duke of Saxony, the then emperor...
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  • of Anhalt-Bernburg. The spouses were related to each other as direct descendants of Henry I, Count of Anhalt, through his sons Bernhard I of Anhalt-Bernburg...
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    Magdeburg Count Albert of Ballenstedt (died after 6 December 1172)[citation needed] Count Dietrich of Werben (died after 5 September 1183) Count Bernhard of Anhalt...
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    residential castle in Lauenburg upon Elbe (started in 1180–1182 by Bernhard, Count of Anhalt) had burnt down in 1616, towards Ratzeburg, where it remained...
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  • Brandenburg, older brother of Count Bernhard of Anhalt, Albert's great-grandfather. They had five children: Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 17 July 1362)...
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  • Count Dietrich of Werben (died after 5 September 1183) Count Bernhard of Anhalt (1140 – 9 February 1212), Count of Anhalt, and from 1180 also Duke of...
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    Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (German: [ˈhɛlmuːt fɔn ˈmɔltkə]; 26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was a Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff of the...
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  • Bernhard V, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (died 24 June 1420) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg...
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    deposed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1180, Albert's son Bernhard, Count of Anhalt received the remaining Saxon territories around Wittenberg and...
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    Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; 29 June 1911 – 1 December 2004) was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September...
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    of AnhaltBernhard, Count of Anhalt (1170–1212), Henry I, Count of Anhalt (1212–1252) Princes of Anhalt-Aschersleben – Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben...
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    George's last surviving uncle, Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, left John George's father as sole ruler of all the Anhalt states, which were finally...
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    Sophia, married Bernhard, Count of Anhalt Lyon 2013, p. 243. Loud & Schenk 2017, p. xxvii. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis II of Thuringia. Heinrich...
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  • (d.a. 1354), married Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (d. 1348). They had two known children: Otto III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg Gertrude, married...
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    Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. The Principality of Anhalt arose in 1212 under its first ruler, Henry I, son of the Saxon duke Bernhard III. Named after Anhalt Castle...
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  • of Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, by his third wife Matilda, daughter of Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen. Bypassed in his rights of inheritance...
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    Siegfried of Anhalt (c. 1132 – 24 October 1184) was born as the third son of Sophie of Winzenburg and her husband Albert the Bear, then Count of Anhalt, of the...
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  • were direct descendants of Henry I, Count of Anhalt, through his sons Bernhard I (ancestor of Matilda), and Siegfried I (ancestor of Sigismund). The marriage...
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    Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (German: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar; 16 August 1604 – 18 July 1639) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years' War. Born...
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    Henry II and Bernhard divided the Anhalt lands. Siegfried received the eastern estates around Köthen. His style Count of Köthen-Dessau (used from 1253) likewise...
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    1563), married on 25 August 1559 to Albert X, Count of Barby-Mühlingen. Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. Dessau, 17 March 1540 – d. Dessau, 1...
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