Resultado de búsqueda
Margrave Leopold Frederick de Brandenburgo-Ansbach (29 May 1674 – 21 August 1676) murió en la infancia. Margrave Christian Albert de Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 septiembre 1675 – 16 octubre 1692) murió sin casarse.
Albert Leopold Friedrich Christian Sylvester Anno Macarius, Prince of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen (31 December 1893 – 9 August 1968) was the second son of Frederick Augustus III, the last reigning king of Saxony before the abolition of the monarchy in 1918.
His eldest son Leopold IV became margrave in 1136, and in 1139 received the Duchy of Bavaria from the hands of King Conrad III, who had banned the Welf duke Henry the Proud. Leopold's brother Henry Jasomirgott (allegedly named after his favourite oath, "Yes, so [help] me God!") was made Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1140, and became Margrave of Austria on Leopold's death in 1141.
Margrave Leopold Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (29 May 1674 – 21 August 1676) died in infancy. Margrave Christian Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 September 1675 – 16 October 1692) died unmarried.
A decisive part in the genesis of the land as such was played by Margrave (‘Markgraf’ or ‘Count of the March’) Leopold III. It was at the latest during his reign that the Latin name ‘Austria’ was used for the March, though officially only from 1147. Later greatly revered by the Habsburgs, Leopold III was canonized in the fifteenth century.
Due to the untimely death of his older brother, Leopold Frederick at the age of two, Christian Albert was designated as heir apparent in 1676, succeeding his father as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach upon his death in 1686.
Brandenburg, margravate, or mark, then an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the nucleus of the dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded. After World War I it was a province of the Land (state) of Prussia in Germany.
