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    Albrecht III (9 November 1414 – 11 March 1486) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 until his death, the third from the House of Hohenzollern. A member...
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    Albert Frederick (German: Albrecht Friedrich; Polish: Albrecht Fryderyk; 7 May 1553 – 27 August 1618) was the Duke of Prussia, from 1568 until his death...
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    Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen (category House of Hohenzollern)
    businessman who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling dynasty of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of...
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    the ghost story of the Weiße Frauen of Hohenzollern. According to legend, Kunigunde fell in love with Albrecht the Fair, a son of Frederick IV, Burgrave...
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    Luise Alexandra Caroline, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, (1845–1912), daughter of Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (1811–1885) and his wife Josephine of...
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    The Hohenzollern Cabinet formed the Prussian State Ministry appointed by Prince Regent Wilhelm I from November 6, 1858, to March 11, 1862. The transfer...
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    Prussian Homage (painting) (category Paintings by Jan Matejko)
    political event from the time of the Renaissance in Poland in which Albrecht of Hohenzollern, the Duke of Prussia paid tribute and swore allegiance to King...
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    Barbara of Brandenburg (1464–1515) (category House of Hohenzollern)
    Barbara of Brandenburg was born in the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach as the tenth of the nineteen children of Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg;...
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    Potsdam in Prussia on 18 October 1831. He was a scion of the House of Hohenzollern, rulers of Prussia, then the most powerful of the German states. Frederick's...
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    father-in-law Albrecht III Achilles died. Her husband Frederick and brother-in-law Siegmund inherited the Franconian domains of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Siegmund...
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    resulted in the fragmentation of estates. In years 1519-1521 Albrecht von Hohenzollern lost the Order's last war against Poland. As a result Order's...
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    ask for an armistice and in 1525 the Grand Master of the Order, Albrecht Hohenzollern, paid homage to the Polish king, Sigismund the Old. In the 13th...
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    in 1657 when Prussia gained its sovereignty. Sigismund and his commander Jan Amor Tarnowski also defeated Moldavia at Obertyn in 1531, and Muscovy in...
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    Oskar Prinz von Preussen (category House of Hohenzollern)
    Karl Prinz von Preussen (born 6 May 1959) is a member of the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling house of Germany. He is the thirty-seventh Herrenmeister...
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    Bohemian fief, Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg in 1627 allotted Żagań to Albrecht von Wallenstein, then Duke of Frýdlant, Imperial generalissimo in the Thirty...
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    in pawn to Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern. From 1645 to 1666 as part of the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz it was...
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  • Thumbnail for History of Poland during the Jagiellonian dynasty
    the city government. Königsberg and the Duchy of Prussia under Albrecht Hohenzollern became a strong center of Protestant propaganda dissemination affecting...
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    1189, the last Raabs count's son-in-law, Frederick I of the House of Hohenzollern, inherited the burgraviate in 1193. From the late 12th century to the...
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    George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (category House of Hohenzollern)
    der Fromme), was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern. He was born in Ansbach, the second of eight sons of Margrave Frederick...
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    1372) Swantibor I (III) (* ca 1351; † 21.6.1413) ∞ Anna of Hohenzollern, daughter of Albrecht of Nuremberg (the Pretty) Otto II (* c. 1380; † 27.3.1428)...
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    Paris demanded that Wilhelm, as head of the House of Hohenzollern, assure that no Hohenzollern would ever seek the Spanish crown again. To provoke France...
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  • nothing without God Motto of the Kingdom of Romania, while ruled by the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty (1878–1947). nihil ultra nothing beyond Motto of...
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    with Collar, 1882 Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, 28 July 1891  Kingdom of Romania: Grand Cross of the Star of Romania...
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    Frederick the Great (category House of Hohenzollern)
    1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after...
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    Frederick William IV of Prussia (category House of Hohenzollern)
    of the Golden Lion, 5 September 1841 Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class  Nassau: Knight of the Gold...
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  • Thumbnail for Order of the Red Eagle
    4th Class, for service in the Füsilier-Regiment Fürst Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern (Hohenzollernsches) Nr 40, January 1900 Rittmeister Richard Franz Joseph...
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    Prussia (1837–1906) Albert, King of Saxony Albert, Prince Consort Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen Alexander I of Russia Alexander I of Serbia Alexander...
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    Aimone, Duke of Aosta Akihito Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen Alexander I of Yugoslavia Alexander II of Russia Alexander...
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  • Thumbnail for Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
    Weferlingen – 20 January 1769 in Bayreuth), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the youngest of fourteen...
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    Jobst's death) to Frederick of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg, in 1415. This step made the House of Hohenzollern one of the most important in Germany...
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