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    Countess Auguste von Harrach zu Rohrau und Thannhausen, Princess of Liegnitz (30 August 1800 – 5 June 1873), was the second wife of King Frederick William...
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    Legnickie Pole, the site of the decisive Battle of Legnica (or Battle of Liegnitz; Legnickie Pole is the name created in 1948 for Wahlstatt or 'battlefield'...
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  • Antoinette von Printzen. Gustav (Kleckewitz, 26 May 1730 – killed in action at Breslau, 22 November 1757), a grenadier captain. Johanna Sophia (Kleckewitz...
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    Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst. She was also known as Duchess Dorothea Sibylla of Liegnitz and Brieg, and was born as the Margravine of Brandenburg. Born in Berlin...
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    of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica. Anna of...
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  • November 1763 to Karoline Elisabeth Antoinette von Printzen (b. Havelberg, 18 August 1734 - d. Liegnitz, 8 April 1799); they had one daughter: Countess...
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    household near the Neues Palais, in villa Liegnitz, previously inhabited by Auguste, Princess of Liegnitz, the morganatic wife of Frederick William III...
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    Amalia, Baroness von Dyhrn (1790–1866), philanthropist and heiress Sophia of Dyhrn (1255/1257–1323), the Duchess of Silesia-Liegnitz Hedwig Maximiliane...
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    Württemberg and his second wife, Countess of Württemberg, Agnes von Schlesien-Liegnitz (both died in 1265) rest in a double tomb in the south tower chapel...
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    Brzezinka. In accordance with his last will and testament, Duke Christian of Liegnitz-Brieg took up the guardianship of Silvius Nimrod's underage children. To...
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    Rumors soon emerged that Maria Anna contracted a morganatic marriage to Capt. von Wagenheim, one of her equerries. In 1889, their only son Prince Frederick...
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    The marriage was therefore morganatic and she was created Princess of Liegnitz. They had no children. In 1838 the king distributed large parts of his...
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    Budapest: Akadémia Publisher, 1985. ISBN 963-05-0929-6 A. Sammter: Chronik von Liegnitz, ed. by W. Pfingsten, 1868, p. 191. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "John...
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    Count of Latochin Anna (* 1492, † 1550) ∞ George I of Silesia of Silesia-Liegnitz Barnim (* before 1501, † before 1501) Barnim IX (* 1501, † 1573) Elisabeth...
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    d. Wissenschaften, Halle 1.2002, S.7–31. ISSN 0072-940X Frank Hagen von Liegnitz: Die Sonnenfrau. Weihnachtsgabe der WeserStrom Genossenschaft, Bremen...
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    their mind when August Wilhelm's father decided to leave his son the Villa Liegnitz in the Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Their residence developed into a meeting...
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    of Hesse-Kassel Henriëtte Albertine (1686–1754) Maria Amalia (1689–1771) Sophia Hedwig (1690–1734), married Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (26...
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    Joachim Frederick of (Legnica-)Brieg (German: Joachim Friedrich von Liegnitz-Brieg; Polish: Joachim Fryderyk legnicko-brzeski; 29 September 1550 – Brzeg...
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    Rosicrucianism, Martinism and Christian theosophy. Böhme's disciple and mentor, the Liegnitz physician Balthasar Walther, who had travelled to the Holy Land in search...
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    moved to retake Silesia, where Frederick defeated them at the Battle of Liegnitz on 15 August. The victory did not allow Frederick to regain the initiative...
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    Ernest of Austria, Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Frederick IV of Liegnitz. In December 1575, diplomat Jan Zamoyski proposed to elect Anna. As ancient...
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    Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (German: Prinzessin Bathildis Amalgunde von Anhalt-Dessau; 29 December 1837 – 10 February 1902) was a Princess of Anhalt-Dessau...
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    Otto von Viereck, Countess Sophia Henrietta von der Schulenburg wife of Count Heinrich von Podevils, and Mademoiselle Auguste-Marie-Bernardine von Tettau...
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  • Thuringia ? 1387/1389 ? 4 Jul 1395 Rudolph III Barbara Rupert, Duke of Silesia-Liegnitz ? 6 Mar 1396 11 Jun 1419 17 May 1435 Euphemia Conrad II of Silesia ? 14...
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    With Frederick she had ten children: Elisabeth (1403–31 October 1449, Liegnitz), married: in Konstanz 1418 Duke Louis II of Brieg and Legnica (1380/5–1436);...
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    prevented their violent measures. His relationship with Duke Frederick II of Liegnitz, Brieg, and Wohlau, and with Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels, who had...
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  • Silesian Piasts died out, and with the death of George William, Duke of Liegnitz the dynasty ceased to exist. The Duchy of Silesia, one of the hereditary...
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  • (Cluj-Napoca), on 8 October 1877 Marie Therese Hedwig Perzel (Stein?) (c. 1846 in Liegnitz – 17 May 1921, in Wiesbaden), without issue: Princess Klara Maria Carolina...
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    last abbess Sophia Elizabeth (1589–1622), daughter of the Ascanian prince John George I of Anhalt-Dessau, married Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz. Gernrode...
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    in Bad Kissingen. In 1905 her lady-in-waiting (hofdame) was the baroness von Heynitz. During the First World War she participated as leader in Dessau...
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