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	Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Wilhelm (Frederick William) of Brandenburg, Kurfürst of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia (February 16, 1620- April 29, 1688) of the House of Hohenzollern, was the Kurfürst (elector) of Brandenburg, from 1640 until his death.
		He simplified travel in the ancestral lands of Brandenburg and Prussia by connecting riverways with canals, a system, that was expanded by later Prussian architects, such as Georg Steenke and which is still functioning and in use today.
		On 7 December 1646, at The Hague, he married Luise Henriette von Nassau (1627-1667), daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Brandenburg (361 words)

	MSN Encarta - Prussia
		Frederick's regime was noted as a model of “enlightened despotism.”Frederick William III succeeded to the throne in 1797 and with the aid of his ministers, Baron vom und zum Stein and Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, instituted a series of liberal reforms within the kingdom.
		Frederick's son, Frederick William I, greatly increased the size of the Prussian army and rebuilt the organization of the state around the military establishment.
		Frederick William centralized the administration of the duchy and assumed governing powers that were formerly exercised by the nobility and the town oligarchies.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559027/Prussia.html (1014 words)

	Frederick William
		Frederick William became Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1640.
		Such was the impact of Frederick William, that Prussia was to dominate the previously all-powerful Sweden in the Baltic.
		Frederick William was a very able man. He knew from 1640 what he wanted Brandenburg-Prussia to be but he had to work within the state’s weaknesses that became so obvious during the Thirty Years War.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /frederick_william.htm (708 words)

	Henry the Pious of Saxony WETTIN , Duke of Saxony - Gerolt of WEYARN
		\- Catharina of BRUNSWICK-CALENBERG /- Ernst I of Saxony WETTIN, Elector of Saxony
		/- Frederick III of MEISSEN, Margrave of Meissen /- Frederick I the Warlike Wettin of SAXONY
		/- Frederick I the Warlike Wettin of SAXONY /- Frederick II the Gentle Wettin of SAXONY
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dphaner/HTML/people/p0000153.htm (708 words)

	JOACHIM OF FLORIS - LoveToKnow Article on JOACHIM OF FLORIS
		(P. (1484-1535), surnamed Nestor, elector of Brandenburg, elder son of John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg, was born on the 2ist of February 1484.
		He received an excellent education, became elector of Brandenburg on his father's death in January 1499, and soon afterwards married Elizabeth, daughter of John, king of Denmark.
		Joachim, however, was unable to continue his abbatial functions in the midst of his labors in prophetic exegesis, and, moreover, his asceticism accommodated itself but ill with the somewhat lax discipline of Corazzo.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOACHIM_OF_FLORIS.htm (708 words)

	JOAN (FEMALE POPE) - LoveToKnow Article on JOAN (FEMALE POPE)
		When Frederick died in the following year, the electors son Sigismund obtained the two sees; and on Sigismunds death in 1566 Magdeburg was secured by his nephew, Joachim Frederick, afterwards elector of Brandenburg.
		(15051571), surnamed Hector, elector of Brandenbuig, the elder son of Joachim I., elector of Brandenburg, was born on the 13th of January 1505.
		He became elector of Brandenburg on his fathers death in July 1535, and undertook the government of the old and middle marks, while the new mark passed to his brother- John.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOAN_FEMALE_POPE_.htm (708 words)

	woodgate - pafg142 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg Elector.Joachim married Catherine of Brandenburg -Kustrin.
		Catherine of Brandenburg -Kustrin.Catherine married Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg Elector.
		Frederick IV King of Denmark [ Parents ] was born on 21 Oct 1671 in Copenhagen,Denmark.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~woodgate/pafg142.htm (708 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Brandenburg
		Charles's son, Sigismund, mortgaged the Mark (1388-1411) and in 1411 appointed as Statthalter (Governor) Burgrave Frederick of Nuremberg, who took possession in 1412, and, having overcome the opposition of the nobles, was solemnly invested with the Mark of Brandenburg as an elector of the German Empire (1417).
		Elector Joachim I (1499-1535), whose younger brother, Albert, was made Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Halberstadt in 1513, and in 1514 Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and Archchancellor of the German Empire, was extremely hostile towards the religious innovations, and endeavoured to have the edict formally condemning Luther passed by the Reichstag, at Worms.
		Ecclesiastically, the former Mark of Brandenburg, with the city of Berlin and the greater part of the province of Pomerania, forms the "Apostolic Delegature for the Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania", which is administered by the Prince-Bishop of Breslau as Apostolic Delegate, indirectly through the Dean of St. Hedwig's in Berlin as delegate of the prince-bishop.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02738c.htm (708 words)

	Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Wilhelm (Frederick William) of Brandenburg, Kurfürst of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia (February 16, 1620 - April 29, 1688) of the House of Hohenzollern, was the Kurfürst (elector) of Brandenburg, from 1640 until his death.
		He simplified travel in the ancestral lands of Brandenburg and Prussia by connecting riverways with canals, a system, that was expanded by later Prussian architects, such as Georg Steenke and which is still functioning and in use today.
		On 7 December 1646, at The Hague, he married Luise Henriette von Nassau (1627-1667), daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Brandenburg (708 words)

	Frederick I of Brandenburg
		Frederick became Elector of Brandenburg on the death of his father in 1688 and king of Prussia from 1701 to his death in 1713.
		Frederick I was the third son of Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia.
		Electors had not been allowed to do this and it was this drop in their perceived status, that pushed Frederick to deciding that he wanted to be called king of Prussia.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /frederick_i_of_brandenburg.htm (708 words)

	brief history of Prussia - world history
		In 1701, in exchange for not opposing the Habsburg claim on the Spanish crown, the elector Frederick III was proclaimed king Frederick I of Prussia in Königsberg, which was the capital of East Prussia.
		Formally Brandenburg was a part of Prussia, so that the kingdom of Prussia was both within and outside the Holy Roman Empire, as was the case of the Habsburg Empire, in which the duchy of Austria and the kingdom of Bohemia, but not the other Habsburg territories, were part of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Brandenburg and Prussia were separated by Polish Pomerelia (Pomerania or the southern coast of the Baltic Sea).
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /p/prussia.html (1519 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG
		Owing to the disorders which were prevalent in Brandenburg he passed part of his youth in the Netherlands, studying at the university of Leiden and learning something of war and statecraft under Frederick Henry, prince of Orange.
		His concluding years were troubled by differences between his wife and her step-son, Frederick; and influenced by D-orothea he bequeathed portions of Brandenburg to her four sons, a bequest which was annulled under his successor.
		His father was the elector George William, and his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Frederick IV., elector palatine of the Rhine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_OF_BRANDENBURG.htm (1120 words)

	Prussia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		Frederick was succeeded (1786) by Frederick William II, who further added to Prussia by the partitions of Poland of 1793 and 1795.
		The electorate with its dependencies had become a major German state by the end of the 17th cent., a position that it owed largely to the secularization of church lands during the Reformation (the major part of its new acquisitions had been ecclesiastic territory) and to its successful diplomacy at the Peace of Westphalia (1648).
		Frederick William's successor, Frederick II, or Frederick the Great (reigned 1740-86), used the efficient military instrument bequeathed him by his father to enter upon a period of conquest.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/section/Prussia_History.asp (2188 words)

	FriedrichWilhelm (1620-1688)
		Frederick William was the eldest son of the elector George William and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, a granddaughter of William the Silent, prince of Orange.
		elector of Brandenburg (1640–88), who restored the Hohenzollern dominions after the devastations of the Thirty Years' War—centralizing the political administration, reorganizing the state finances, rebuilding towns and cities, developing a strong army, and acquiring clear sovereignty over ducal Prussia.
		He grew up amid the chaos of the Thirty Years' War, in which Brandenburg suffered particularly heavily, and was forced to spend his childhood years far from the Berlin court in the fortress of Küstrin, where he was educated in the Calvinist faith.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/FriedrichWilhelm/FriedrichWilhelm.html (214 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Berlin
		When the Elector Frederick II again separated the two cities and erected a fortified castle between Berlin and Kolln, on the site of the present royal residence, the inhabitants, under the leadership of Bernd Ryke, revolted, stormed the house in which the elector was accustomed to live when in Berlin, and destroyed the public records.
		Under Frederick William II there was a temporary check to its development during the era of the Napoleonic ascendancy.
		Ecclesiastically, Berlin belongs to the Delegation of the Mark of Brandenburg, which is under a delegate of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau; the delegate is the Provost of St. Hedwig's in Berlin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02493b.htm (1799 words)

	Frederick I of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Königsberg, Friedrich became the Kurfürst (Elector) of Brandenburg, in 1688, upon the death of his father Friedrich Wilhelm I.
		Friedrich I of Prussia, Kurfürst of Brandenburg, King in Prussia (Fredrick I, July 11, 1657 -- February 25, 1713), Hohenzollern, was the first King in Prussia, reigning from January 18, 1701, until his death.
		(1697 elector August II of Saxony became King of Poland; 1714 The Hanoverian elector became King George I of Great Britain).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedrich_I_of_Prussia (368 words)

	Oliva, Peace of
		Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg, was recognized in full sovereignty over Prussia (later known as East Prussia) but in turn confirmed Pomerelia (later West Prussia) as Polish.
		Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg - Frederick William, known as the Great Elector,1620–88, elector of Brandenburg...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0836576.html (138 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		the electors of Brandenburg acquired (1614) the duchy of Cleves and other W German territories and (1618) the duchy of Prussia (roughly, the later East Prussia).
		Although it suffered heavily in the Thirty Years War (1618–48), Brandenburg emerged as a military power under Frederick William, the Great Elector (reigned 1640–88), who acquired E Pomerania and freed Prussia from Polish suzerainty.
		Among Frederick's early successors were Albert Achilles (reigned 1470–86), who introduced primogeniture as the law of inheritance of the Hohenzollern family, and Joachim II (reigned 1535–71), who accepted the Reformation in 1539.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html (571 words)

	DESCARTES - LoveToKnow Article on DESCARTES
		Several letters between 1643 and 1649 are addressed to the princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the ejected elector palatine, who lived at The Hague, where her mother maintained the semblance of a royal court.
		He was present at the battle of Weisser Berg (near Prague), where the hopes of the elector palatine were blasted (November 8, 1620), passed the winter with the army in southern Bohemia, and next year served in Hungaiy under Karl Bonaventura de Longueval, Graf von Buquoy or Boucquoi (1571-1621).
		His residence in the Netherlands fell in the most prosperous and brilliant days of the Dutch state, under the stadtholdership of Frederick Henry (I6251647).
	52.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DESCARTES.htm (571 words)

	History, German: Page 1. Index to Biographical Entries. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		Frederick Augustus I, 1750–1827, king and elector of Saxony
		Maximilian I, 1573–1651, elector and duke of Bavaria
		Frederick III, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia
	www.bartleby.com /65/cat/bio/gerhistbio1.html (571 words)

	CMH5
		Burgrave Frederick VI of Nürnberg, now Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg, was a descendant of the Alemannic Counts of Zollern, who are mentioned as early as the tenth century, and who soon afterwards had reached a prominent position among the magnates of Swabia.
		Joachim Frederick's successor, John Sigismund, quite early in his reign formally approved the principle already established in practice under his father : that the Elector would take no step in the afiairs of his House or dominions without having previously sought the advice of his Privy Council.
		But although Frederick, with the cooperation of the Archbishop of Magdeburg, with the aid of his own new artillery, and by judicious concessions to the main body of the Brandenburg nobles, pacified the Mark, his services to Emperor and Empire failed to secure a continuance of confidence between them.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh520.html (571 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Brandenburg, Reformation
		While Brandenburg was one of the Empire's largest territories, and it's duke being an elector, one of the politically more important princes, the dukes could only look with envy at the neighbouring Archdiocesis of Magdeburg, the Duchy of Saxony and the Hanseatic League.
		Brandenburg administratively was divided in 3 parts - the ALTMARK (to the west of the Elbe), the KURMARK (between Elbe and Oder) and the NEUMARK (to the East of the Oder).
		The Duchy of Brandenburg was located in the east of the Holy Roman Empire, and it is one of it's largest territories.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/braref.html (571 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		the electors of Brandenburg acquired (1614) the duchy of Cleves and other W German territories and (1618) the duchy of Prussia (roughly, the later East Prussia).
		Although it suffered heavily in the Thirty Years War (1618–48), Brandenburg emerged as a military power under Frederick William, the Great Elector (reigned 1640–88), who acquired E Pomerania and freed Prussia from Polish suzerainty.
		Among Frederick's early successors were Albert Achilles (reigned 1470–86), who introduced primogeniture as the law of inheritance of the Hohenzollern family, and Joachim II (reigned 1535–71), who accepted the Reformation in 1539.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html (571 words)

	Brandenburg
		Joachim I (reigned 1499–1535) introduced the Roman law into Brandenburg; under his sons and heirs, Elector Joachim II and John, Lutheranism was accepted and the lands of secularized bishoprics were taken over by the dynasty.
		After the Brandenburg (senior) branch of the Ascanians became extinct in 1320, the electorate was beset by disunity.
		Frederick's chief adviser about this time was Eberhard Danckelmann (1643–1722), whose services in continuing the reforming work of the Great Elector were very valuable; but, having made many enemies, he fell from power in 1697 and was imprisoned for several years.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/Brandenburg/Brandenburg.html (571 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Joachim Frederick Hohenzollern
		Joachim married Catherine von Brandenburg-Küstrin on 8 Jan 1570.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/4102.htm (571 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Frederick William I
		Frederick I (of Prussia) (1657-1713), first king of Prussia (1701-13), and as Frederick III, elector of Brandenburg (1688-1701), son of...
		Frederick William centralized government administration by removing the taxation of the estates and giving them to the government, and improved...
		Frederick William I (1688-1740), king of Prussia (1713-1740), who during his reign made his kingdom into a major European state.
	encarta.msn.com /Frederick_William_I.html (571 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frederick William known as the Great Elector, 1620–88, elector of Brandenburg (1640–88), son and successor of George William.
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		Frederick William laid the foundation of the Prussian state by repressing the estates, strengthening central administration, husbanding the resources of his lands, improving communication, and building the army.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FredWBra.html (571 words)

	The Duch
		The Great Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William signs the Treaty of Marienberg, in which he promises to send forces to assist Sweden in the Northern War in return for land in Poland if the Poles are defeated.
		However, the alliance is short-lived since, on the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III in April 1657, Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg, gives his vote to the Hapsburg candidate Leopold I instead of the French king Louis XIV.
		Sweden's threat to invade East Prussia forces the Great Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William to agree to the Treaty of Königsberg.
	www.geocities.com /teentent/dutch.htm (571 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG
		Owing to the disorders which were prevalent in Brandenburg he passed part of his youth in the Netherlands, studying at the university of Leiden and learning something of war and statecraft under Frederick Henry, prince of Orange.
		His concluding years were troubled by differences between his wife and her step-son, Frederick; and influenced by D-orothea he bequeathed portions of Brandenburg to her four sons, a bequest which was annulled under his successor.
		His father was the elector George William, and his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Frederick IV., elector palatine of the Rhine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_OF_BRANDENBURG.htm (571 words)

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