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George William ( German: Georg Wilhelm; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War.
- 23 December 1619 – 1 December 1640
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6 de mar. de 2024 · George William (born Nov. 13, 1595, Kölln an der Spree, Brandenburg [now in Berlin, Ger.]—died Dec. 1, 1640, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]) was the elector of Brandenburg (from 1619) through much of the Thirty Years’ War.
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George William I 1595–1619–1640: Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate 1597–1660: Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt 1601–1659: Sophie Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg 1601–1660: Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1584–1663: John VII of Mecklenburg 1558–1592: Frederick VI of Baden-Durlach 1617–1677: George William II 1678 ...
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Elector Frederick William was born in Berlin to George William, Elector of Brandenburg, and Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. His inheritance consisted of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Duchy of Cleves, the County of Mark, and the Duchy of Prussia. Owing to the disorder in Brandenburg during the Thirty Years' War, he spent part of his you...
Following the Thirty Years' War, which devastated much of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick William focused on rebuilding his war-ravaged territories. Brandenburg-Prussia benefited from his policy of religious tolerance, and he used French subsidies to build up an army that took part in the 1655 to 1660 Second Northern War. This ended with the treat...
Frederick William was a military commander of wide renown, and his standing army would later become the model for the Prussian Army. He is notable for his joint victory with Swedish forces at the Battle of Warsaw, which, according to Hajo Holborn, marked "the beginning of Prussian military history", but the Swedes turned on him at the behest of Kin...
Since his capital Berlin had suffered greatly from the Swedish occupation during the Thirty Years' War, Friedrich Wilhelm commissioned the master engineer Johann Gregor Memhardt to plan a city fortification. Construction of the Berlin Fortress began in 1650 following the contemporary fortification model of bastion fortsin northern Italy. Large part...
In his half-century reign, 1640–1688, the Great Elector transformed the small remote state of Prussia into a great power by augmenting and integrating the Hohenzollern family possessions in northern Germany and Prussia. When he became elector (ruler) of Brandenburg in 1640, the country was in ruins from the Thirty Years' War; it had lost half its p...
On 7 December 1646 in The Hague, Frederick William entered into a marriage, proposed by Blumenthal as a partial solution to the Jülich-Berg question, with Luise Henriette of Nassau (1627–1667), daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels and his 1st cousin once removed through William the Silent. Their children were a...
Carsten, Francis L. "The Great Elector and the foundation of the Hohenzollern despotism." English Historical Review 65.255 (1950): 175–202. OnlineCarsten, Francis L. "The Great Elector" History Today(1960) 10#2 pp. 83–89.Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947(Harvard UP, 2006).Citino, Robert. The German Way of War. From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich(UP Kansas, 2005).- 1 December 1640 – 29 April 1688
- Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
Jorge Guillermo I de Brandeburgo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre. Jorge Guillermo I de Hohenzollern ( Cölln, a orillas del río Spree, cerca de Berlín, 13 de noviembre de 1595- Königsberg, 1 de diciembre de 1640), miembro de la Casa de Hohenzollern, fue Margrave Elector de Brandeburgo y duque de Prusia desde 1619 hasta 1640.
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George William (German: Georg Wilhelm; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave and elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. He was the father of Frederick William, the "Great Elector".
"George William (German: Georg Wilhelm; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave and elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years´ War.