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Hace 6 horas · However, Princess Augusta was greatly in favour of a match for her son that would bring closer connections with Britain. In 1851, his mother sent Frederick to England, ostensibly to visit the Great Exhibition but in truth, she hoped that the cradle of liberalism and home of the industrial revolution would have a positive influence on her son.
Hace 2 días · County of Zollern. Hohenzollern Castle, near Hechingen, was built in the mid-19th century by Frederick William IV of Prussia on the remains of the castle founded in the early 11th century. Alpirsbach Abbey, founded by the Hohenzollerns in 1095.
Hace 2 días · Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia was the fourth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Prince August joined NSDAP on 1 April 1930, with the low membership number 24.
Hace 5 días · Germany - Territorialism, Princes, Unification: The decline of Hohenstaufen influence in Germany, the Great Interregnum, and the rapid alternation of dynasties on the German throne created favourable conditions for the territorial princes, lay and spiritual, to gain power.
Hace 3 días · In the ecclesiastical princedoms the ascendancy of an archbishop or a bishop was contested by the cathedral chapter, which had become a preserve of the nobility. The self-governing cities fought to protect their chartered liberties and drew together in formidable leagues to resist princely encroachment.
Hace 3 días · Germany - Prussia, Austria, Contest: In 1740 the death of the Habsburg emperor Charles VI without a male heir unleashed the most embittered conflict in Germany since the wars of Louis XIV. The question of the succession to the Austrian throne had occupied statesmen for decades.
Hace 5 días · Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1781 – 1824), married Princess Augusta of Bavaria, had seven children including Joséphine of Leuchtenberg who married King Oscar I of Sweden, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg who married Queen Maria II of Portugal, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg who married Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil
