Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (May 8, 1460 - April 4, 1536), also known as Frederick V or Friedrich V, Margrave von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth, succeeded his father as margrave in 1486. Frederick V was the son of Albert Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, and Anna of Saxony. Frederick V married Sophie of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Austria. His mother Sophie was the sister of Sigismund I Jagiello, who was also king of Poland. Frederick's children were Barbara, who married George, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg; Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, born 1481; George, Margrave of Ansbach, born 1484; and Albert of Prussia, born 1490..
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg Frederick (German: Friedrich) I (1271-1440), Burgrave of Nuremberg, was created margrave of Brandenburg by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor in 1415, inaugurating 400 years of rule over the area by the Hohenzollern family which was ultimately to preside over Germany's political unification. Frederick's sons included John III the Alchemist, regent during Frederick's absence supporting Sigismund in Bohemia's Hussite Wars; his successor Frederick II; and Albert Achilles..
Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg - Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg One might be looking for Friedrich II of Prussia. (18th Century) Frederick II "the Iron" (sometimes "Irontooth") (1413-1470) of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave of Brandenburg, from 1440 until his abdication in 1470. His brothers included John the Alchemist, and Albert Achilles, both of whom also ruled Brandenburg. Their parents were Frederick I, Brandenburg's first Hohenzollern ruler, and his wife Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut..
Georg Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach - Georg Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Georg Hohenzollern Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach was born in 1484 and died 1543. He was the son of Frederick I Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Hohenzollern and his wife Sophie Jagiello, daughter of Casimir IV and Elisabeth Habsburg. Georg had a son named Georg Friedrich Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Duke of Prussia. Georg became the legal guardian and raised the minor Louis II of Bohemia Jagiello, King of Hungary and Bohemia. From 1515 to 1527 Georg governed together with his brother Kasimir, then alone. In 1524 he confessed to the Reformation and he urged his brother Albrecht or Albert of Prussia,who was at that time grand master of the Teutonic Knights, to join the Reformation and secularize Prussia as well. Georg signed the Protestation at Speyer.
Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg Albert III (in German Albrecht Achilles), (1414-1486), Margrave of Brandenburg, given the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities, was the third son of Frederick I of Brandenburg of Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg, later Burgrave of Nuremberg, and was born at Tangermunde on the 9th of November 1414. Albert Achilles had a son named Frederick V, Margrave of Ansbach. After passing some time at the court of the emperor Sigismund, he took part in the war against the Hussites, and afterwards distinguished himself whilst assisting the German king, Albert II, against the Poles. On the division of territory which followed his father's death in 1440, Albert received the margravate of Ansbach. Although his resources were very meagre, he soon took a leading place.
Frederick II - Frederick II See: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1196-1250, emperor 1211-1250) Frederick II of Austria (?-1246, duke of Austria 1230-1246) Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (1413-1470, margrave 1440-1470) Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (1534-1588, king 1559-1588) Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786, king 1740-1786), better known as Frederick the Great This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Frederick V - Frederick V There are many different people who may be referred to as Frederick V or Friedrich V. They are listed here in chronological order: Frederick V or Friedrich V, Burggraf of Hohenzollern-Nürnberg (before 1333 - 1398) Frederick V or Friedrich V, Count of Leiningen (died 1327) Frederick V or Friedrich V of Castell, (fl. 1364) Frederick V or Friedrich V, Margrave von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth, also known as Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (May 8, 1460 - April 4, 1536) Frederick V or Friedrich V von Baden-Durlach (1594-1659) Frederick V or Friedrich V von der Pfalz (August 16, 1596 -November 29, 1632), also known as Frederick V, Elector Palatine. Frederick V or Frederik V, King of Denmark and Norway (ruled 1746-1766) Frederick V or Friedrich V, Landgraf.
Frederick - Frederick Places Frederick is the name of some places in the United States of America: Frederick, Colorado Frederick, Maryland Frederick, Oklahoma Frederick, South Dakota Frederick County, Maryland Frederick County, Virginia Differently spelled are Frederic, Michigan and Frederica, Delaware. People Frederick is also a common male forename. It has been the name of several monarchs, often shared by different members from the same dynasty. Frederick is Friedrich in German and Frederik in Danish. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, (1125-1190), king & emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, (1196-1250), king & emperor Frederick V, (before 1333-1398) Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg, (1413-1470) Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, (1415-1493), German ruler Frederick III of Saxony, (1463-1525), Saxon elector Frederick I, of Denmark, (1471-1533), Danish monarch Frederick II of Denmark.
Albert I of Brandenburg - Albert I of Brandenburg Albert I (c. 1100-1170), Margrave of Brandenburg, also called, The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), was the only son of Otto the Rich, count of Ballenstedt, and Eilika, daughter of Magnus Billung, duke of Saxony. He inherited the valuable Saxon estates of his father in 1123, and on his mother's death, in 1142, succeeded to one-half of the lands of the Billungs. In about 1123 he received from Lothar I, duke of Saxony, the margravate of Lusatia and, after Lothar became the German king, accompanied him on the disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment. In 1128 his brother-in-law, Henry II, margrave of the Saxon northern march, died, and Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief, attacked Udo,.
William of Brandenburg - William of Brandenburg Wilhelm of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga, was a member of the house of Hohenzollern. He was the son of Frederick I Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. From 1539 to 1561, he also held the position of Archbishop of Riga. He was the brother of Albrecht Albert of Prussia and his grandfather was Albert Achilles v Brandenburg..
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - of the Treasury (1713) Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer (1713) Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1713) Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (1713) Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton (1714) John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland (1714) Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1714) Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, First Lord of the Treasury (1714) Prince Frederick Lewis, eldest son of the Prince of Wales (1718) Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1st Duke of York and Albany, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, brother of King George I (1718) Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, natural son of King Charles II and Nell Gwynn John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1718) Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, later Prime Minister (1718).
Joachim Friedrich - his father Johann Georg as margrave of Brandenburg in 1598, and was in turn succeeded at his death by his son Johann Sigismund.He was duke of Prussia on account of his grandfather Joachim II Hector and his father Johann Georg having been co-inheritors of the Dukedom of Prussia. Joachim Friedrich's sister was Sophie, who married Christian Wettin, Duke of Saxony. From that line came the later Frederick August I (the Strong) Duke of Saxony and King of Poland . Joachim Friedrich's second marriage, in 1603, (apparently his first marriage was unimportant) was to Eleonore Hohenzollern, born 1583, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia..
John of Denmark - or colloquially "Hans", Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1481-1513), Norway (1483-1513) and Sweden (1497-1501), under the Kalmar Union. He was born on February 2, 1455 as the son of Christian I and Dorotea av Hohenzollern-Brandenburg, daugther of Margrave Hans of Brandenburg. In 1478 he married Chistina of Saxony, grand daughter of Frederick the Gentle of Saxony. This produced the following offspring, Christian II of Denmark, Franciscus, Knud, and Elisabeth, who later married as princess of Brandenburg. He died on February 20, 1513. According to the Privilege of Ripen the Noble Diets of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were to elect a duke among the sons of the previous duke. After the death of Christian I, John does however successfully argue for electing both sons to co-dukes (in 1482),.
History of Bavaria - Child, Liutpold, count of Scheyern, who possessed large Bavarian domains, ruled the Mark of Carinthia, erected on the southeastern frontier for the defence of Bavaria. He fell in the great Fight of 907; but his son Arnulf, surnamed the Bad, rallied the remnants of the race, drove back the Hungarians, and became duke of the Bavarians in 911, uniting Bavaria and Carinthia under his rule. The German king Conrad I unsuccessfully attacked Arnulf when the latter refused to acknowledge his royal supremacy, and in 920 Conrad's successor, Henry the Fowler recognized Arnulf as duke, admitting his right to appoint the bishops, to coin money and to issue laws. A similar conflict took place between Arnulf's son and successor Eberhard and Otto I the Great; but Eberhard proved less successful than his.
Hohenzollern - are a European royal family which came to rule Brandenburg, in 1415. They ruled the Duchy of Prussia from 1525-1701; and the Kingdom of Prussia from 1701-1918. They ruled the German Empire from 1871-1918. They were dethroned following World War I. The Hohenzollern family came originally from south-west Germany; their name derives from their 13th-century castle of Zollern, near Stuttgart, Germany. Later, they became rulers of Nuremberg and other territories in Franconia and Swabia. Nonetheless, the real importance of the Hohenzollerns began with their being raised to the rank of Elector for the Holy Roman Empire in 1415 upon the acquisition of Brandenburg by the first Hohenzollern Elector, Friedrich I; the Brandenburg lands would form the core of the family's power for the next five hundred years. In chronological order, and.
Holy Roman Empire elector - The Golden Bull stipulated that the dignity of elector should be held by the following: The Archbishop of Mainz, Archchancellor of the Empire for Germany The Archbishop of Trier, Archchancellor of the Empire for Gaul The Archbishop of Cologne, Archchancellor of the Empire for Italy The King of Bohemia, Archcupbearer of the Empire The Count Palatine of the Rhine (whose lands were known as the Palatinate), Archsteward of the Empire The Count Palatine and Duke of Saxony, Archmarshal of the Empire The Margrave of Brandenburg, Archchamberlain of the Empire (The Duke of Saxony and Margrave of Brandenburg were, thereafter, normally known as the "Elector of Saxony" and the "Elector of Brandenburg". The Count Palatine of the Rhine was usually called the "Elector Palatine") The Counts Palatine of Saxony and the Rhine.
Hussite Wars - Hussites was undertaken. A large German army entered Bohemia, and in August 1421 laid siege to the town of Zatec. The crusaders hoped to be joined in Bohemia by King Sigismund, but that prince was detained in Hungary. After an unsuccessful attempt to storm Zatec the crusaders retreated somewhat ingloriously, on hearing that the Hussite troops were approaching. Sigismund only arrived in Bohemia at the end of the year 1421. He took possession of the town of Kutna Hora, but was decisively defeated by Zizka at Nemecky Brod (Deutschbrod) on 6 January 1422. Civil War Bohemia was now again for a time free from foreign intervention, but internal discord again broke out caused partly by theological strife, partly by the ambition of agitators. Jan Zelivsky was on 9 March 1422 arrested.
Georg Friedrich - Georg Friedrich Georg Friedrich Hohenzollern, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth,and Regent of Ducal Prussia was born 1539 and died 1603. He was the son of Georg Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty (1484-1543). Georg Friedrich reigned in Ansbach and Jaegerndorf since 1556 and after the death of his cousin Alcibiades in 1557 also in Bayreuth. He took over the administration of Ducal Prussia in 1577, when the then-reigning duke (Albert Frederick) became ill. He was the last of the older Frankish line of the House of Hohenzollern. Upon his death in 1603 Ansbach and Bayreuth were inherited according to the Gera house treaty of 1598 by younger princes of the Brandenburg line..
1268 - Hungary launches a war against Bulgaria. Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia, marries Katarina, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary. The county of Wernigerode become a vassal state of the margrave of Brandenburg. An earthquake in Cilicia kills 60 000 people. Hojo Tokimune becomes regent of the Kamakura Shogunate. Births Philip IV of France Deaths October 29 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (executed by Charles I of Sicily) October 29 - Conradin, duke of Swabia and King of Jerusalem (executed by Charles I of Sicily) November 29 - Pope Clement IV Peter II of Savoy Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276).
Albert - people: Albert The Warlike (1522-1557) Prince of Bayreuth Albert I of Brandenburg (c. 1100-1170) Margrave of Brandenburg Albert Achilles (1414-1486) Elector of Brandenburg Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861) Prince-consort of Queen Victoria of England Albert I of Hapsburg (c. 1250-1308) German king Albert II of Hapsburg (1397-1439) German king Albert of Mainz (1490-1545) Archbishop of Mainz Albert of Prussia (1490-1568) First duke of Prussia Albert III of Saxony (1443-1500) Duke of Saxony Frederick Augustus Albert (1828-1902) King of Saxony Albert The Degenerate (c. 1240-1314) Albert Of Aix (c. A.D. 1100) Albert Mecklenburg, King of Sweden reigning 1363-1389 Albert is also the name of a commune of the Somme département in France. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name..
