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Hace 5 días · John George I (reigned 1611–56) headed the organization of German Protestant princes during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), but from this period Albertine Saxony was increasingly overshadowed by Brandenburg-Prussia as the leading state of Protestant Germany.
Hace 3 días · The last paper in this section, ‘Princeps non Principissa’, examines another woman who struggled to maintain her personal rule after the death of her husband, the less familiar Catherine of Brandenburg. Catherine’s situation was highly unusual as she was her husband’s designated heir and is the only woman in this volume to have been ...
Hace 1 día · George William, Elector of Brandenburg and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg: Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony: Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria: 13 June 1747: Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick: Frederick Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler: Louise Sophie of Hanau-Lichtenberg: 27 ...
Hace 5 días · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Hace 3 días · The Saxons were, according to the most probable opinion, a colony of the Cimbrians, that is, of the inhabitants of the Cimbrian Chersonesus, now Jutland, who, finding their country overstocked with inhabitants, sent out, much about the same time, three numerous companies to seek new settlements.
Hace 3 días · Christina ( Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [ O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa, and the Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654.
Hace 4 días · Anna of Brandenburg (1 January 1507 – June 19, 1567 in Lübz) was a Duchess consort of Mecklenburg. Life. Anna was the eldest daughter of the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (1484–1535) from his marriage to Elizabeth (1485–1555), daughter of King Johann of Denmark.
