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  BRUNSWICK - LoveToKnow Article on BRUNSWICK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Magnus I., duke of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel from 1345 to i 369, was the ancestor of the later dukes of Brunswick.
Duke William was unmarried, and according to the existing conventions it would pass to George, king of Hanover, who had just been deprived of his kingdom by the king of Prussia.
Brunswick is served by the Maine Central railway, and by the Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath, and the Portland and Brunswick electric railways.
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 Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Fürst von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern) (October 9, 1735 - 1806) was a German military general born in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
It remained for the Duke of Brunswick's proclamation to assure the downfall of the monarchy by his proclamation, which was being rapidly distributed in Paris by July 28 apparently by the monarchists, who badly misjudged the effect it would have (See text in link).
The Duke of Brunswick had served in the Seven Years' War and was made a Prussian general in 1773.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Emperor Charles V
Charles was the son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, by Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and Burgundy was the first heritage to which he at his led, on his fathers death in 1506.
Charles, eager to push the war against the Turks, as well as to restore the unity of Christendom, was ready to partly forego his strict rights both in the Milanese and Burgundy, and to consider the question of the balance of power between his house and that of Valois.
Ferdinand insisted that the authority of princes in the empire, as settled be the agreement of Passan, should be legally recognized by a decree of the Diet, and the equality of the Catholic and Lutheran religions accepted.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles William Ferdinand Charles William Ferdinand, 1735-1806, duke of Brunswick (1780-1806), Prussian field marshal.
Charles XI Charles XI, 1655-97, king of Sweden (1660-97), son and successor of Charles X. Charles ascended the throne at the age of five, so a council of regency ruled until 1672.
Charles X Charles X, 1622-60, king of Sweden (1654-60), nephew of Gustavus II.
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 The Hessians - Chapter One
William, the eldest son and heir apparent of Landgrave Frederick, governed at the time of the Revolution the independent county of Hanau, which lay a few miles to the eastward of the city of Frankfort.
William's mistress for years was a Fraulein von Schlotheim, who at first ran away from him, but was sent back to him by her own parents.
Duke Charles I reigned over Brunswick-Luneburg, and the hereditary Prince Charles William Ferdinand was associated with him in the government.
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 Genealogy - pafg1472 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Charles Grey was born on 13 Mar 1764 in Falloden, Northumberland, Eng..
was born in 1751 in Hanover dtr of Augustus William.
was born in 1713 in Prussia (Charles William Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick.
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 History of Brunswick
Magnus I., duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel from 1345 to 1369, was the ancestor of the later dukes of Brunswick.
Duke Frederick Ulrich, however, was obliged to cede this territory to Luneburg in 1617, and when he died in 1634 his family became.
Duke Charles I., who accumulated a large amount of debt, sought to discharge his liabilities by sending his soldiers to assist England during the American War of Independence.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg196 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Charles William Ferdinand BRUNSWICK Duke was born 9 Oct 1735 and died 10 Nov 1806.
Charles I Alexander VON WÜRTTEMBERG Duke was born 24 Jan 1684 and died 12 Mar 1737.
William I LONGSWORD of NORMANDY 2nd Duke was born 876 and died 20 Dec 942.
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 Frederick William I of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick William I of Prussia (in German: Friedrich Wilhelm I), of the House of Hohenzollern, (August 14, 1688 – May 31, 1740), often known as 'the Soldier-King' reigned as King in Prussia (1713 - 1740).
Although Frederick William built up one of the most powerful armies in Europe and loved military pomp, he was essentially a peaceful man. He intervened briefly in the Great Northern War, but gained little territory.
Frederick William would frequently mistreat Fritz (he preferred his younger sibling August William), executing one of his closest friends, Hans Hermann von Katte, and almost disinheriting him.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg118 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Charles William Ferdinand BRUNSWICK Duke [Parents] was born 9 Oct 1735 in Wolfenbuttel.
Frederick William BRUNSWICK Duke was born 9 Oct 1771 and died 16 Jun 1815.
Ferdinand Georg AUGUST Duke was born 28 Mar 1785 and died 27 Aug 1851.
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 French Revolutionary Wars. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The allied Austrian and Prussian forces under Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, quickly crossed the frontier and began to march on Paris.
The duke issued a manifesto threatening to raze Paris should the royal family be harmed.
France gradually evolved a plan calling for a three-pronged attack: Jourdan was to advance southeastward from the Low Countries; Jean Victor Moreau was to strike at S Germany; and Napoleon Bonaparte was to conquer Piedmont and Lombardy, cross the Austrian Alps, and join with Moreau and Jourdan.
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 France3
Influenced by his uncle, Charles de Valois (1270-1325), he was preoccupied for much of his short reign with unrest among his nobles, to whom he granted charters confirming their privileges, and with an indecisive campaign against Flanders that he led in 1315.
Charles was influential in forming a conspiracy of nobles called the League of the Public Weal, against Louis in 1465.
Louis XII (1462-1515), king of France (1498-1515), son of Charles, duke of Orléans, born in Blois.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn118 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a.k.a.: The Prince Consort of Queen Victoria; Christened: (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; He was an active and effective patron of the arts and sciences, organizing such enterprises as the epochal Great Exhibition of 1851 to stimulate the growth of British commerce, industry and national pride.
She was the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III, and of Victoria Maria Louisa, daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
William died when she was 18, at which point she overruled her domineering mother and became a charismatic and independent queen.
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 Charles_William_Ferdinand,_Duke_of_Brunswick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It has been proposed that Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg be merged and redirected into this article.
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (October 9, 1735 - November 10, 1806), German general, was born at Wolfenbüttel.
The result of Brunswick's cautious advance on Paris was the cannonade of Valmy followed by the retreat of the allies.
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 SEVENTEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Duke Karl I Charles of BRUNSWICK (son of Duke Ferdinand Albert I ?
BRUNSWICK-BEVERN and Princess of WOLFENBUTTEL) was born in 1713 in Prussia (Charles William Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick.
Elizabeth of BRUNSWICK was born in Brunswick - dtr of Charles (Karl).
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 MSN Encarta - French Revolution
On August 10 the discontent, combined with the threat contained in the manifesto of the allied commander, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, to destroy the capital city if the royal family were mistreated, precipitated a Parisian insurrection.
The insurgents, led by radical elements of the capital and national volunteers en route to the front, stormed the Tuileries and massacred the king's Swiss Guard.
During the winter of 1794-1795, French forces commanded by General Charles Pichegru overran the Austrian Netherlands, occupied the United Netherlands (which the victors reorganized as the Batavian Republic), and routed the allied armies of the Rhine.
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 My Lines - Person Page 397
She was the daughter of Karl II Wilhelm Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig and Augusta, Princess of Wales.
She married Karl II Wilhelm Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig, son of Karl I, Herzog von Braunschweig and Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, on 17 January 1764.
Francis Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was born in 1750.
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 Frederick the Great, and His Relations with Masonry and Other Secret Societies
Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of the fourth earl of Berkeley, was born on December 17, 1750.
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, (3) the conqueror of Creveldt and of Minden, was induced, by the persuasion of the Baron de Hund, who was a Reformer, to place himself at the head of the reformed Lodges of Freemasonry, which has taken the appellation of the Strict Observance.
One of the first of these charlatans was Schroepfer, a coffeehouse-keeper of Leipsic, on whom Duke Charles of Courland (5) had inflicted corporeal punishment; but who afterwards so fascinated this Prince, and a greater part of the principal personages of Dresden and of Leipsic, that he compelled them to act a principal part with him.
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 AllRefer.com - Charles William Ferdinand (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Charles William Ferdinand 1735–1806, duke of Brunswick (1780–1806), Prussian field marshal.
He had great success in the Seven Years War (1756–63) and was commander in chief (1792–94) of the Austro-Prussian armies in the French Revolutionary Wars.
His son was Frederick William, duke of Brunswick.
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 History Channel Search Results
When the contingent from Marseille arrived, it was singing the patriotic hymn thenceforth known as the “Marseillaise.” Popular dissatisfaction with the Girondists, who had rallied to the support of the monarchy and had dismissed charges of desertion against Lafayette, increased the agitation.
On August 10 the discontent, combined with the threat contained in the manifesto of the allied commander, Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick (1735–1806), to destroy the capital city if the royal family were mistreated, precipitated a Parisian insurrection.
During the winter of 1794–95, French forces, commanded by Gen. Charles Pichegru (1761–1804), overran the Austrian Netherlands, occupied the United Netherlands, which the victors reorganized as the Batavian Republic, and routed the allied armies of the Rhine.
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 HRH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
Arms of the late HRH Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (peerage of Great Britain), and Earl of Armagh (peerage of Ireland), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, K.G., G.C.H., a Prince of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland, Lieutenant-General in the British Army, and Colonel in the Austrian Army.
When his brother, King William IV, died on June 20, 1837, he succeeded to the Kingdom of Hanover, owing to the operation of the Salic Law, to which his niece Queen Victoria could not succeed to the Hanover Kingdom being a woman.
HRH Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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 Battle of Jena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the battle, Napoleon smashed the outdated Prussian army inherited from Frederick II the Great, which resulted in the reduction of Prussia to half its former size at the Treaty of Tilsit in July 1807.
In early October the Prussian-Saxon army, under Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, moved slowly westward through Saxony in an attempt to threaten Napoleon's communications to the west.
Frederick William III placed 63,000 men under Duke Charles William Ferdinand at Auerstädt and about 51,000 under Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen on a 15-mile (24-kilometre) front between Weimar and Jena.
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Caroline of Brunswick Caroline of Brunswick, 1768-1821, consort of George IV of England.
The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, she married George (then prince of Wales) in 1795.
She bore him one daughter, but the couple separated in 1796 and Caroline, deprived of her child, lived in retirement.
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 Royal Houses of Scotland
William had also five illegitimate children, a son and four daughters, from each of whom sprang one of the claimants to the Crown in 1291-92.
The Duke was killed in Paris by the splinter of a lance at a tournament, 1485.
Charles FITZROY, first Duke of Cleveland, born 1662, married firstly 1671 Mary (d.s.p 1680), daughter of Sir Henry Wood, Knight, married secondly 1694 Alice (died 1746), daughter of Sir William Pulteney, of Misterton, Lincs., and died 1730, leaving issue.
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 QUEEN CAROLINE AMELIA AUGUSTA - LoveToKnow Article on QUEEN CAROLINE AMELIA AUGUSTA
of Great Britain, second daughter of Charles William~ Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick-Wcilfenbuttel, was born on the,7th of May 1768.
She was brought up with great strictness, and her education did not fit her well for her subsequent station in life.
The queen was allowed tb assume her title,but she was refused admittance to Westminster Hall on the coronation day, July 19, 1821.
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 House of Guelph
of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and widow, 1st, of Prince Frederick-Louis-Charles, of Prussia; and 2ndly, of Prince Frederick-William, of Solms Braunfels.
His Royal Highness was born Duke of Cornwall, under the terms of the original creation of Edward III., who conferred the title on his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, with limitation to him and his heirs, eldest sons and heirs apparent to the crown of England for ever.
The Prince inherited also at his birth the Scottish Honors of High Steward, Duke of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrcw, and Lord of the Isles, those dignities having been, by act of parliament A.D. 1469, vested in the eldest son and heir-apparent of the sovereign of Scotland for ever.
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 Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Biographies: C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Cecil and Sir Francis Walsingham tried to show that the purpose of his mission was to incite the English to rebel against Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
William Tyndale produced an English version of parts of the bible Working in Zürich, Switzerland, he printed the first complete English bible in 1535.
Son of William I and brother of William II and Henry I.
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 Author - Date
We went to a queer, lonely hotel in Brunswick and afterwards we all wished we had gone to another, still we were quite comfortable, except for the extreme heat, which was worst on Sunday, the day we spent seeing the Gauss statue, house, etc.
The daughter of Gauss' friend became the wife of George the III of England, - his mother (the Duke's) was a sister of Frederick the Great, and portraits of them all hang on the walls of the palace and the museums, a fine race of men, if one can judge from their faces.
It was interesting to see in cases in the museums the uniforms worn by those "fl Brunswickers" - jet fl, one and all, with perhaps a touch of color on the collars.
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