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.
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..
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.
List of Reichstag participants (1792) - about three hundred of these had Landeshoheit (the special sort of sovereignty enjoyed by the states of the Empire), and had representation in the Reichstag (Imperial Diet). The Imperial Diet was divided into three so-called collegia - the Council of Electors, the Council of Princes, and the Council of Cities. As who had votes had gradually changed over the centuries, many princes held more than one vote, as will be indicated. It also ought to be noted that certain territories which had once held votes in the diet, as for instance the County of Waldeck or the Duchy of Jülich-Kleve-Berg, due to the extinction of an old dynasty, or for other reasons. The Council of Electors The King of Bohemia (also Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary) The Archbishop of.
Louis II of Hungary - and Bohemia upon his father's death. Louis had been adopted by emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian Georg Hohenzollern, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In 1522 Louis II became married to Mary of Habsburg, granddaughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, as stipulated by an imperial congress at Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. Louis was killed at the battle of Mohacs in 1526. Names in other languages: German:Ludwig II,Czech: Ludvík I,Slovak: Ľudovít II,Hungarian: II. Ulászló.
Johann Friedrich Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach - Johann Friedrich Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Johann Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (October 18, 1654 - March 22, 1686), succeeded his father Albrecht V as margrave in 1667. He married his second wife Eleanor Erdmuthe Louise of Saxe-Eisenach on November 4, 1681 . Their daughter Wilhelmine Charlotte Caroline, Markgravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Caroline of Ansbach) married George II of Great Britain before he became king..
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..
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.
Caroline of Ansbach - Caroline of Ansbach Caroline of Ansbach (or Anspach)(Wilhelmine-Caroline of Brandenburg) was the queen consort of King George II of Great Britain 1727-1737. Caroline was born on March 1, 1683, at Ansbach in Germany, the daughter of Johann Friedrich Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Orphaned early on, she grew up an intelligent, cultured and attractive woman, much sought after as a bride. However, when the opportunity to become Queen of Spain presented itself, she turned it down because it would have meant renouncing her Protestant faith. Shortly afterwards, she met and married George, son of the Elector of Hanover, who would later become heir to the throne of Great Britain. Their wedding took place in Hanover in 1705, and their first child, Prince Frederick Louis, was born in 1707. On.
Johann Georg - Johann Georg Johann Georg Hohenzollern (1525-1598) was the Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg from 1571 until his death. Faced with large debts accumulated during the reign of his father Joachim II, he instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on the exempt nobility. Though a staunch Lutheran opposed to the rise of Calvinism, he permitted the admission of Calvinist refugees from the wars in the Spanish Netherlands and France. He was succceeded by his son Joachim Friedrich. Upon the death of Albert of Prussia his father Joachim II Hector had become co-inheritor of Prussia. Joachim II died in 1571 and Johann Georg received the margraviate Brandenburg and the duchy of Prussia. External Link: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/eico/seite33.html - A portrait with ducal title.
Joachim II of Brandenburg - Joachim II of Brandenburg Joachim II Hector Hohenzollern, Margrave of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector was born in 1505 and died in 1571. He succeeded his father, Joachim I Nestor, in 1535. While long drawn to the Lutheran faith and always seeking balance between Protestant and Catholic factions, Joachim II did not officially profess the Lutheran Creed until 1555. This may have been the result of promises he had made to his father and to his second wife's family. Joachim I had had his sons sign an inheritance contract to remain Catholic; had Joachim II not signed this pact, he would likely have been passed over in the line of inheritance. Joachim II's first marriage was to Magdalene of Saxony. (Apparently, she stopped being his wife...died?) In 1535 he married.
Ansbach - Ansbach Ansbach is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated south west of Nuremberg at the Frankish-Rezat, an arm of the Main river. Population: 39,800 (1999). A monastery at the place was founded in 748. In the following centuries the monastery and the adjoining village grew to become the city of Ansbach (called a city in 1221 for the first time). In 1331 the town became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and only thirty years later Ansbach was the capital of the state. When the Hohenzollern family was elevated to become electors of Brandenburg, the Ansbach state was not united with Brandenburg and remained independent (sometimes called Brandenburg-Ansbach in order to express the connection.
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 Orange, son-in-law of King George II (1733) William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (1733) Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, First Lord of the Treasury (1733) James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave (1738) Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, son-in-law of King George II (1750) Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of Saint Albans (1741) Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1741) Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (1741) William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1741) Duke Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha, brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales (1750) Duke John Adolphus of Saxe-Weissenfels (app 1746, never installed) Prince George William Frederick, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, later King George III (1750) Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1750) Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (1750) John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, Lord Privy.
Albert The Warlike - of Casimir, prince of Bayreuth, and a member of the Franconian branchof the Hohenzollern family. He was born at Ansbach and having lost his father in 1527 he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, prince of Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism. In 1541 he received Bayreuth as his share of the family lands, and as the chief town of his principality was Kulmbach he is sometimes referred to as the margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted the emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543. The Peace of Crepy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles.
Joachim Friedrich - succeeded 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..
Johann Sigismund - succeeded his father Joachim Friedrich as margrave of Brandenburg and duke of Ducal Prussia in 1608. He became in addition duke of Cleve in 1614, holding all three titles until his death. His son and successor was Georg Wilhelm, born in 1595..
Imperial Circle Estates - Ecclesiastical Bench Archbishop of Salzburg Bishop of Regensburg Bishop of Passau Provost of Berchtesgaden Abbot of St. Emmeran in Regensburg Abbess of Niedermünster in Regensburg Abbess of Obermünster in Regensburg Secular Bench Sternstein (Lobkowicz) Haag (Bavaria) Staufenehrenfels (Bavaria/Palatinate) Ortenburg Bavaria Palatinate-Neuburg (Bavaria/Palatinate) Palatinate-Sulzbach (Bavaria/Palatinate) Leuchtenberg (Bavaria) Obersulzbürg and Pyrbaum (Bavaria) Hohen-waldeck (Bavaria) Breiteneck (Bavaria) Regensburg (free city) Burgundian Circle Burgundy/Austrian Netherlands (Austria) Franconian Circle Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes Bishop of Bamberg Bishop of Würzburg Bishop of Eichstätt Mergentheim (Grand Master of the Teutonic Order) Bench of the Secular Princes Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Prussia/Ansbach) Brandenburg-Ansbach (Prussia) Henneberg-Schleusingen (Electoral Saxony) Henneberg-Römhild (Ernestine Saxon lines) Henneberg-Schmalkalden (Hesse-Kassel) Schwarzenberg Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort Hohenlohe-Waldenburg The Bench of Counts and Lords Hohenlohe-Neuenstein Castell Wertheim (Löwenstein) Rieneck (Nostitz) Erbach Limpurg-Gaildorf (Prussia and Württemberg) Limpurg-Speckfeld Seinsheim (Schwarzenberg) Reichelsberg (Schönborn) Weisentheid (Schönborn) Welzheim.
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.
Frederick 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 of Hesse-Homburg (1748-1820) Frederick V or Friedrich V of Salm-Kyrburg (1823-1887) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed.
