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Hace 2 días · The Great Elector. After a reign of forty-eight years, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, left behind him in 1688 a military and bureaucratic system that endured until 1945. F.L. Carsten describes how it was the army he had founded that accomplished, in 1871, the triumphant unification of the German Empire and fought the battles of the ...
t. e. Frederick William I ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the Soldier King ( German: Soldatenkönig [1] ), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 till his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel. Born in Berlin, he was raised by the Huguenot governess Marthe de Roucoulle.
found: Encyclopaedia Britannica, via WWW, May 26, 2020 (Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg; Frederick William, byname The Great Elector, German Der Grosse Kurfürst, (born Feb. 16, 1620, Cölln, near Berlin--died May 9, 1688, Potsdam, near Berlin), elector of Brandenburg (1640-1688), who restored the Hohenzollern dominions after the devastations of the Thirty Years' War--centralizing ...
Frederick William, the Great Elector. Frederick William in 1650. Frederick William (r.1640-1688) owed his fame largely to military success, but this came after the Peace of Westphalia. When he came to power in 1640, his first action was to disband his army and make a separate truce with Sweden. Although he later considered this demobilization ...
19 de may. de 2023 · Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, also known as Frederick William the Great Elector (16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688), was a prominent figure in the history of Brandenburg-Prussia. He ruled as the Elector of Brandenburg from 1640 until his death and played a crucial role in transforming the small and fragmented territories into a powerful and unified state.
4 de mar. de 2024 · Frederick I (born July 11, 1657, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died Feb. 25, 1713, Berlin) was the elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick III), who became the first king in Prussia (1701–13), freed his domains from imperial suzerainty, and continued the policy of territorial aggrandizement begun by his father, Frederick William, the Great Elector.
Friedrich Wilhelm (1832–1889), who married, morganatically, twice Auguste Birnbaum in 1856 and, in 1875, Ludowika Gloede; their children were Counts von Schaumburg, but post-1918 descendants bear the title Prince and Princess von Hanau. Moritz (1834–1889), who married, morganatically, Anne von Lossberg in 1875; no children.