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	Frederick III of Denmark - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During the disastrous Swedish War of 1643-1645 Frederick was appointed generalissimo of the duchies by his father, but the laurels he won were scanty, chiefly owing to his quarrels with the Earl-Marshal Anders Bille, who commanded the Danish forces.
		But with all his good qualities Frederick was not the man to take a clear view of the political horizon, or even to recognize his own and his country's limitations.
		Frederick expressed the desire to make the personal acquaintance of his conqueror; and Charles X. consented to be his guest for three days (March 3-5) at the castle of Fredriksborg.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Frederick_III_Of_Denmark (1073 words)

	Frederick I of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick I of Prussia (German: Friedrich I. July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was (as Frederick III; Friedrich III.
		Born in Königsberg in 1657, Frederick became Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg in 1688, upon the death of his father Frederick William.
		To indicate that Frederick's royalty was limited to Prussia and did not reduce the rights of the Emperor in Frederick's Imperial territories, he had to call himself "King in Prussia", instead of "King of Prussia"; his grandson Frederick II of Prussia was the first Prussian king to formally style himself "King of Prussia".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_I_of_Prussia (384 words)

	Frederick I of Brandenburg - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		1371-1440), elector of Brandenburg, founder of the greatness of the House of Hohenzollern, was a son of Frederick V., burgrave of Nuremberg, and first came into prominence by saving the life of Sigismund, king of Hungary, at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396.
		Sigismund, anxious to obtain another vote in the electoral college, appointed Frederick to exercise the Brandenburg vote on his behalf, and it was largely through his efforts that Sigismund was chosen German king.
		Frederick then passed some time as administrator of Brandenburg, where he restored a certain degree of order, and was formally invested with the electorate and margraviate by Sigismund at Constance on the,8th of April 1417 (see Brandenburg).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Frederick_I_Of_Brandenburg (449 words)

	Brandenburg-Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna, daughter of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia, married Margrave John Sigismund of Brandenburg, who was granted the right of succession to the Duchy of Prussia, on his father-in-law's death in 1618.
		By this the Duchy of Prussia came under the rule of the Electors of Brandenburg, but the duchy continued to be a fief under the Polish Crown till 1657.
		The location of the Duchy of Prussia outside the Holy Roman Empire allowed Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brandenburg-Prussia (328 words)

	Prussia - Wikipedia
		With the exception of Prussia, all of Brandenburg's lands were a part of the Holy Roman Empire, by this time well under the control of the House of Habsburg.
		The situation became progressively grimmer, however, until the death of the Czarina Elizabeth and the accession of the germanophile Peter III relieved the pressure on one front.
		After Frederick the Great died (in 1786), his son Friedrich William II continued the partitions through military and diplomatic force, and Poland was sectioned by Prussia, Austria, and Russia by 1795.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia (1756 words)

	Halle - LoveToKnow 1911
		Of secular buildings the most noticeable are the ruins of the castle of Moritzburg, formerly a citadel and the residence of the archbishops of Magdeburg, destroyed by fire in the Thirty Years' War, with the exception of the left wing now used for military purposes, the university buildings, the theatre and the new railway station.
		of Brandenburg (afterwards king of Prussia), in 1694, on behalf of the jurist, Christian Thomasius (1655-1728), whom many students followed to Halle, when he was expelled from Leipzig through the enmity of his fellow professors.
		It was closed by Napoleon in 1806 and again in 1813, but in 1815 was re-established and augmented by the removal to it of the university of Wittenberg, with which it thus became united.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Halle (1218 words)

	1. The Hohenzollern Dynasty. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Frederick William recognized serfdom where it existed, rights of lords, and the continued right of the estates to participate in foreign policy (a right generally conceded by the estates to the elector in practice).
		Frederick William renounced his claims to the Silesian duchies in return for the cession of Schwiebus.
		FREDERICK III, elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713), with the consent of the emperor assumed the title of king in Prussia and crowned himself in Königsberg.
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	::Frederick I of Brandenburg::
		Frederick I was the third son of Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia.
		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 was given legitimate permission to call himself King of Prussia and in return he had to give Leopold 8,000 soldiers and his morale support.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /frederick_i_of_brandenburg.htm (1049 words)

	Frederick William, I Biography / Biography of Frederick William, I Biography
		Frederick William I (1688-1740) was king of Prussia from 1713 to 1740.
		The son of the elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and of Sophie Charlotte of Hanover, Frederick William I was born in Berlin on Aug. 15, 1688.
		Frederick William had come to the throne convinced that Prussia was in danger of being swallowed up by its more powerful neighbors.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frederick-william-i (729 words)

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		Frederick endeavored to establish a court modeled on that of Louis XIV of France.
		Prussia, however, which was part of Frederick’s domain, lay outside the empire, and in 1701 Emperor Leopold I recognized Frederick as king of Prussia in return for his military support in the War of the Spanish Succession.
		Although he depleted the public treasury during his reign, he undertook some projects beneficial to the welfare of Prussia, such as the establishment in 1694 of the University of Halle and the founding in 1707 of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..fr078300.a (218 words)

	The Hohenzollern Dynasty
		In 1701 the elector Frederick III of Brandenburg secured from the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I the title "king in Prussia." The change to "king of Prussia" was not formally recognized until 1772, when Frederick the Great obtained it.
		Frederick William, the Great Elector (reigned 1640-88), obtained E Pomerania, the secularized bishoprics of Cammin, Minden, and Halberstadt, and the expectancy to Magdeburg upon the death of its administrator.
		He was succeeded by Frederick III (1888) and by William II (reigned 1888-1918), whose instability and ambition contributed to the involvement of Germany in World War I; his abdication ended the family's rule in Germany.
	www.antipas.org /news/europe/hohenzollerns.html (1172 words)

	FIFTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sophia Charlotte HANOVER was born in 1668 in Hanover - dtr of Ernest Augustus.
		She was married to Frederick I of PRUSSIA (son of Frederick William of HOHENZOLLERN Elector of Berlin and Louisa Henriette of ORANGE) about 1684.
		Son of Frederick III of PRUSSIA was born in 1687 in Prussia - died in infancy.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7038.htm (113 words)

	thePeerage.com - Exhibit
		William III was always loth to confide the secrets of his foreign policy to English hands, and to the end of his life Portland was in such matters his most trusted agent.
		William III was not very well pleased to find that his ambassador had, as was perhaps inevitable, begun his diplomatic operations by discussing the continued presence of James II and his court at St. Germain.
		William III's nature was cast in too generous a mould for him to dismiss an old friend in favour of a new; and when Portland showed himself not proof to the trial of jealousy, the king continued to trust in the loyalty which was certain to survive it.
	www.thepeerage.com /e292.htm (5020 words)

	History of GERMANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In accepting the Bohemian throne, and being crowned in Prague in November 1619, Frederick V is perpetrating an extremely inflammatory act within the edgy community of the German states.
		Frederick owes Ferdinand allegiance, as one of the German princes and as an imperial elector (the elector palatine of the Rhine).
		Their original province is Brandenburg, where their title is margrave, but they have acquired in the Reformation the valuable duchy of Prussia and more recently (under the terms of the peace of Westphalia) another large stretch of the Baltic coast, in Pomerania.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2797&HistoryID=ac62 (3022 words)

	Berlin Academy of Science
		The population of the city grew from 12,000 in 1670 to 61,000 in 1712, while the University of Halle was founded in 1694, the Academy of the Arts in 1696.
		Frederick II was a man interested and knowledgeable about philosophy and aimed to reorganise the Berlin-Brandenburg Society of Scientists in Berlin to rival the Academy in Paris.
		Johann(III) Bernoulli was appointed to the Academy in 1764, at the age of 19, and Frederick II asked him to revive the astronomical observatory of the Academy.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Berlin.html (1033 words)

	History of PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The elector Frederick William of Brandenburg succeeds in that year (through a well-judged blend of warfare and diplomacy) in severing the feudal link between his duchy and the Polish kingdom.
		This achievement enables Frederick William's son, Frederick III of Brandenburg, to achieve the crucial next step.
		The new king crowns himself, as Frederick I of the Prussian dynasty, in Königsberg in 1701.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa54 (390 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Frederick III of Denmark Oldenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shortly afterward Frederick signed the Treaty of Roskilde (Feb. 26, 1658), by which Denmark ceded to Sweden the provinces of Skåne, Blekinge, and Halland, the island of Bornholm, and the Norwegian province of Trondheim.
		Frederick called a meeting of the Estates in September 1660 to meet the debts incurred in the war.
		Frederick married Sophia Amalia of Brunswick, daughter of George of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Anne-Eleanor of Hesse-Darmstadt, on 1 Oct 1643 in Gluckstadt.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/76.htm (474 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Frederick I William Hohenzollern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		FREDERICK I, first king of Prussia (1701-13), and as Frederick III, elector of Brandenburg (1688-1701), son of Frederick William, the Great Elector.
		Frederick married Sophia Charlotte Hanover, daughter of Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Sophia Wittelsbach, on 8 Oct 1684 in Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover.
		Frederick next married Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Cassel, daughter of Wilhelm VI von Hessen-Kassel and Hedwig Sophie von Brandenburg, on 23 Aug 1679 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/46.htm (329 words)

	electors
		Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg - Frederick William, known as the Great Elector,1620–88, elector of Brandenburg...
		Frederick III, elector palatine - Frederick III (Frederick the Pious), 1515–76, elector palatine (1559–76).
		Frederick I, elector of Brandenburg - Frederick I, 1371–1440, elector of Brandenburg (1415–40), first of the Hohenzollerns...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0816971.html (410 words)

	Electorate of Brandenburg 1356-1701 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The lands extending eastward from the Elbe to the Vistula, once inhabited by Germans, were invaded by Slavic tribes who, during the sixth century of the Christian era, pushed their way as far as the Elbe and the Saale in Thuringia.
		Frederick III, Prince Elector (Kurfürst) of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, proclaimed himself King of Prussia in 1701, with the acceptance of the Emperor and other German powers, partly in exchange for his support in the forthcoming War of the Spanish Succession.
		For example flags for Brandenburg are present even in the beginning of the 19th century, when all its flags were replaced since 1707 with the Prussian ones.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-br_hi.html (1220 words)

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		Frederick III, Count von Zollern and Frederick I, Burgrave of Nuremberg [Nuernberg] (d.
		Frederick III von Zollern, Burgrave of Nuremberg and Margrave von Bayreuth and Kulmbach (d.1297) (1) Elisabeth von Andechs-Meranien, dau.
		1397 Frederick VI von Zollern of Burgrave of Nuremburg and Frederick I Hohenzollern of Brandenburg (b.
	www.remmick.org /Hohenzollern.Royal (741 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frederick III, king of Denmark and Norway (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frederick III 1609–70, king of Denmark and Norway (1648–70), son and successor of Christian IV.
		The Netherlands and Brandenburg, allies of Denmark, then assisted in repulsing the Swedes, and the peace of Copenhagen was made (1660).
		Frederick was succeeded by his son, Christian V. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Fred3Den.html (297 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Breslau
		Soon after this the Emperor Otto III and Duke Boleslaw Chrobry, who was then the ruler of the whole of Silesia, founded the Diocese of Breslau, and Breslau, together with the Dioceses of Cracow and Colberg, was placed under the Archdiocese of Gnesen, which was founded by Otto in the year 1000.
		King Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great) desired to erect a "Catholic Vicarite" at Berlin, which should be the highest spiritual authority for the Catholics of Prussia.
		After this Frederick made it impossible for him to rule the Prussian part of his diocese, and until the death of the bishop this territory was ruled by vicars Apostolic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02761a.htm (6284 words)

	Important Historical Events between 1700 and 1792
		Prince Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowns himself Frederick I ``King of Prussia" against the protest of the Pope.
		Frederick II, Crownprince of Prussia, flees from his father and is punished with arrest in a fortress ????; his friend Katte is executed.
		Frederick II founds a confederacy of princes to prevent the Emperor from acquiring Bavaria.
	www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at /public/dutt/lingue/node7.html (1083 words)

	Germany States \| Asia Travel Europe
		In 1701 Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowned himself Frederick I, King in Prussia, thus laying the foundations for the Prussian kingdom; the Brandenburg March became part of Prussia.
		Frederick II made Potsdam his royal residence and oversaw the evolution of the masterpiece Sanssouci Park with its palaces and other magnificent buildings.
		In years past, Brandenburg’s poor sandy soil led it to be called the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation“.
	www.asiatravel.com /germany/states.html (3494 words)

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