• (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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    Karl Friedrich and the Dukes John Christian of Brieg and George Rudolf of Liegnitz and the City Council of Wrocław founded on 9 August 1633 a league (German:...
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    1902) was a German conductor, composer, and violinist. Bilse was born in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica) in the Prussian Silesia Province. As a teenager,...
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    Louis I of Liegnitz-Brieg (Louis of Legnica and Brzeg; Polish: Ludwik I brzeski, German: Ludwig I) with his wife, Agnes of Glogau. Louis I of Liegnitz was...
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    Hermann also took part in the defensive struggle against the Mongols at Liegnitz. He founded or supported several important monasteries: Maulbronn Abbey...
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    and 1523, Schwenckfeld served the Duchy of Liegnitz as an adviser to Duke Charles I (1511–1515), Duke George I (1515–1518), and Duke Frederick II (1518–1523)...
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    Erwin von Witzleben (category German Army personnel of World War I)
    Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie in Silesia and in Lichterfelde near Berlin, and on 22 June 1901 joined Grenadier Regiment König Wilhelm I No. 7 in Liegnitz,...
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    Latalski Count of Latochin Anna (* 1492, † 1550) ∞ George I of Silesia of Silesia-Liegnitz Barnim (* before 1501, † before 1501) Barnim IX (* 1501, †...
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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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    mind when his father, Kaiser Wilhelm, decided to leave his son the Villa Liegnitz in the Sanssouci Park. In 1912 their only child, Prince Alexander Ferdinand...
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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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    were counterbalanced in the following year by the defeat of Laudon at Liegnitz, which was attributed partly to the dilatoriness of Daun, and Daun's own...
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    Beatrice of Sicily (1326–1365) 30. Otto III of Carinthia (c. 1265–1310) 15. Elisabeth of Carinthia (1298–aft. 1347) 31. Euphemia of Liegnitz (c. 1278–1347)...
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    Hanau-Lichtenberg. Sibylle Christine was the sixth daughter of John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, but third-born daughter of his second wife Dorothea...
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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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    during a heavy thunderstorm at the Katzbach river between Wahlstatt and Liegnitz in the Prussian province of Silesia. Taking place the same day as the Battle...
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    1760 he sustained a severe reverse at Frederick's hands in the Battle of Liegnitz (15 August 1760), which action led to bitter controversy with Daun and...
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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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    Frederick the Great (category Children of Frederick William I of Prussia)
    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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  • List of Imperial German infantry regiments (category Regiments of the German Army in World War I)
    a list of Imperial German infantry regiments before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry...
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    lieutenant general. He took part in the battles near Prague, Kolin, Hochkirch, Liegnitz and Torgau. He was wounded at Leuthen. He remained in active service until...
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    Mainz, Cologne, Speyer and Liège Louis I (1424 – 19 July 1489) John (1429–1475), Archbishop of Magdeburg Ludwig Molitor: Vollständige Geschichte der ehemals...
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    Hamburg: Heinrich Ludwig Villaume. Koch, Syndikus. (1830). Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem Leben der Herzogin Dorothea Sibylla von Liegnitz und Brieg. Brieg:...
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    Silesia. On 24 November 1757, he led the rest of the army past Glogau to Liegnitz to join Frederick's army; he subsequently distinguished himself in the...
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    warned that he deserved similar punishment. The future Frederick IV of Liegnitz (1552–1596), for whom Hans von Schweinichen [de] (1552–1616) was described...
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    Heinrich Löbe (1843–1898) and his wife Pauline, née Leuschner (1852–1947) in Liegnitz (since 1945 Legnica in Poland) in the Prussian province of Silesia. As...
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    diocese was split into the archdeaconries of Breslau, Glogau, Opole and Liegnitz. There are different estimates of the population of Silesia in the 14th...
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    Johann Prueschenk Count of Hardegg before 26 May 1503, † 27 July 1535 in Liegnitz Albrecht, 1430; 1444 Canon of Passau; 1445/61 Provost of St. Stephan, Vienna...
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    Silesia, patron saint archive "Saint Hedwig of Silesia with Duke Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg and Duchess Agnes", The J. Paul Getty Museum Drake, Maurice...
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  • 1430–1434 Wenceslaus I Anna Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia ? 1387/1389 ? 4 Jul 1395 Rudolph III Barbara Rupert, Duke of Silesia-Liegnitz ? 6 Mar 1396 11...
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