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Hace 4 días · From 1411 Frederick VI became governor of Brandenburg and later Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg as Frederick I. Upon his death on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided among his sons: Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg; Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach; John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
However, on November 13th, Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg, wrote to William, Duke of Saxony, informing him that Frederick had crowned Charles King of Burgundy. And on November 14th the diarist Johann Knebel wrote in Basel of news that Charles had been named King of Burgundy, but that his kingdom only consisted of the lands he already possessed within the Empire.
Hace 3 días · The struggle was most intense in the north and east, where the Hohenzollern dynasty of Brandenburg emerged as the chief foe of municipal freedom. In 1442 the elector Frederick II (“Iron Tooth”) crushed a federation of Brandenburg cities and deprived its leader, Berlin, of its most valued privileges.
Hace 3 días · The Slavs were subdued by Albert I the Bear, a Saxon who crossed the Elbe River from the west. His successors took the title margrave of the mark (border territory) of Brandenburg . Berlin still retains as its symbol a defiant black bear standing on its hind legs.
Hace 3 días · After the Polish–Teutonic War (1519–1521), the Order was completely ousted from Prussia when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg converted to Lutheranism in 1525.
Hace 3 días · The electorate of Brandenburg, purchased by Charles IV and bequeathed to his second son, Sigismund, was dominated by a disorderly and rapacious nobility. Sigismund granted this dubious asset in 1415 to his faithful ally Frederick, burgrave of Nürnberg .
Hace 3 días · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 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 annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
