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  Frederick IV of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick IV Frederick IV (October 11, 1671 - October 12, 1730) king of Denmark and Norway from 1699.
Frederick IV commanded the Danish troops at the battle of Gadebusch 1712.
Frederick was considered a man of responsibility and industry – often regarded as the most intelligent of all Danish absolute monarchs - and he seems to have possessed the ability of keeping independent of his ministers.
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 Frederick William IV of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Frederick William IV of Prussia (October 15, 1795 - January 2, 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861.
Frederick William was a staunch Romanticist, and his devotion to this movement, which in the German States featured a nostalgia for the Middle Ages, was largely responsible for him developing into a conservative at an early age.
The modern biography is David E. Barclay, Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy 1840-1861 (Oxford, 1995).
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 FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM IV.
To Frederick William these came as a complete surprise, and, rudely awakened from his medieval dreamings, he even allowed himself to be carried away for a while by the popular tide.
For Frederick William the position of leader of Germany now meant the employment of the military force of Prussia to crush the scattered elements of revolution that survived the collapse of the national movement.
In general it may be said that Frederick William, in spite of his talents and his wide knowledge, lived in a dream-land of hisown, out of touch with actuality.
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 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abroad, Frederick intervened in the civil war for the Danish between Svend III and Valdemar I of Denmark, and negotiations were begun with the East Roman emperor, Manuel I Comnenus.
In June 1158, Frederick set out upon his second Italian expedition, which resulted in the establishment of imperial officers in the cities of northern Italy, the revolt and capture of Milan, and the beginning of the long struggle with Pope Alexander III, which resulted in the excommunication of the emperor in 1160.
Frederick suffered a heavy defeat at the battle of Legnano near Milan, on May 29 1176, where he was wounded and for sometime believed to be dead.
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 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick suffered a heavy defeat at the battle of Legnano near Milan, on May 29 1176, where he was wounded and for some time believed to be dead.
His son Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
Frederick is the subject of many legends, including that of a sleeping hero, derived from the much older British Celtic legend of Bran the Blessed.
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 AllRefer.com - Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway, Scandinavian History, Biographies
Frederick IV 1671–1730, king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730), son and successor of Christian V.
He allied himself (1699) with Augustus II of Poland and Saxony and with Peter I of Russia against Charles XII of Sweden in the Northern War, but was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Travendal in 1700.
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 Frederick William III of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick William III, known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm III, reigned as king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
The son of King Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William was born in Potsdam on August 3, 1770, and became Crown Prince in 1786, when his father ascended the throne.
As a child, Frederick William's father (under the influence of his mistress,) had Frederick William handed over to tutors and he lived a solitary and repressed life which, tended to increase the innate weakness of his character.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Frederick William IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick William IV (1795-1861), king of Prussia (1840-61), who attempted to unite German states under Prussian rule.
William IV (of England) (1765-1837), king of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37) and king of Hannover (1830-37), during whose reign the first Reform...
William IV (of The Netherlands) (1711-1751), stadtholder of The Netherlands from 1747 to 1751.
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 Frederick IV of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick IV (April 19, 1452 - November 9, 1504), was King of Naples from 1496 to 1501.
A combination of King Louis XII of France and Frederick's famous cousin King Ferdinand II of Aragon had continued the claim of Louis's predecessor, King Charles VIII of France, to Naples and Sicily.
In 1501 they deposed Frederick; Naples initially went to Louis, but by 1504 a falling-out led to Naples' seizure by Ferdinand, after which it remained part of the Spanish possessions until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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 Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Frederick returned in 1229 and signed (1230) the Treaty of San Germano, by which he was temporarily reconciled with the pope.
Frederick issued a circular against the pope and seized most of the Papal States; in May, 1241, he captured a number of prelates en route from Genoa to a general council in Rome, and he was threatening Rome when Gregory died.
After the election (1243) of Pope Innocent IV, Frederick offered sweeping concessions to the pope and his allies, but the pope fled (1244) to Lyons, deposed Frederick at the Council of Lyons (1245), and gave the emperor’s foes the privileges of Crusaders.
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 Frederick William, IV Biography / Biography of Frederick William, IV Biography Biography
Frederick William IV (1795-1861) was king of Prussia from 1840 to 1861.
On Oct. 15, 1795, Frederick William IV was born in Berlin, the oldest son of Frederick William III.
Frederick William's ascension to the throne on June 7, 1840, was thus greeted with the expectation that he might help to realize the liberal-national aspirations of his distinguished friends.
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 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in 1795, Frederick William IV was the oldest of seven surviving children of Frederick William III and Queen Luise.
After his father's death in June 1840, Frederick William responded to pressures for change in Prussian society by embarking upon a series of experiments (the United Committees of 1842, the Evangelical General Synod of 1846, and the United Diet of 1847), to transform state and church on the basis of his organic-corporative ideals.
Though usually dismissed as an inconsistent fantast and a political failure, through his (and his advisers') stubborn insistence on maintaining a powerful monarchy, Frederick William IV played a key role in the process by which Prussia's conservative elites survived the revolution of 1848 and adapted co nstitutional structures to their own ends.
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 FREDERICK IV. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK IV.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After many delays and disappointments the Union of Evangelical Estates was actually formed in May 1608, under the leadership of the elector, and he took a prominent part in directing the operations of the union until his death, which occurred on the 19th of September 1610.
Frederick was very extravagant, and liked to surround himself with pomp and luxury.
FREDERICK I. To properly cite this FREDERICK IV.
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 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick I (German: Friedrich I. von Hohenstaufen)(1122 – June 10, 1190), also known as Friedrich Barbarossa ("Frederick Redbeard") was elected king of Germany on March 4, 1152 and crowned Holy Roman Emperor on June 18, 1155.
Frederick's campaign was stopped by the sudden outbreak of the plague which threatened to destroy the Imperial army and drove the emperor as a fugitive to Germany, where he remained for the ensuing six years.
Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
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 History of the Christian Church, Schaff, 1910 edition with power search.
Frederick II., the grandson of Frederick Barbarossa, was born near Ancona, 1194.
Frederick was pursuing his own course, but to appease Honorius he renewed the pledge whereby Sicily was to remain a fief of the papal see.
Frederick was equal to the emergency, and with the aid of his son Enzio checkmated the pope by a manoeuvre which, serious as it was for Gregory, cannot fail to appeal to the sense of the ludicrous.
www.bible.ca /history/philip-schaff/5_ch06.htm   (9215 words)

  
 FWF Life History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(Frederick the IV especially had loyal subjects and he reigned from 1840-1861.) It was also customary for them to give the child the names of all their godfathers and godmothers.
Frederick was ordained a Seventy in the Twenty-first quorum of Seventies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder Aleck (Alex) Glasby and a Elder Beck.
Frederick was taught the principle of polygamy and felt that it was a God given law and that he should comply with it, With Sophia's consent he married Maria Rich, a German lady, no doubt from his own district in Germany.
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 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia by Frederick Engels
Frederick William IV is altogether a product of his time, a figure wholly and solely to be explained by the development of free thought and its struggle against Christianity.
They may serve as proof of how intensely Frederick William IV is striving to re-introduce Christianity directly into the state, and to institute state legislation on the basis of the precepts of biblical morality.
Without such theological devices, Frederick -William IV would long ago have lost the affection of the people, which he has managed to retain so far only because of his frank, jovial nature, his great kindness and affability, and his unrestrained wit, which is said not to spare even crowned heads.
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 The Life & Legacy of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in either 1817 or 1818.
Frederick was grateful to escape from the farm and travel across the Chesapeake Bay.
Frederick Douglass IV, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, and other dignitaries will be there to dedicate the trail and commemorate the life of a man who fought for the freedom of all men and women.
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 Frederick William IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A romanticist and a mystic, he conceived vague schemes of reform based on a revival of the medieval structure, with the rule of estates and a patriarchal monarchy.
Frederick William refused the crown of a united Germany offered him (1849) by the Frankfurt Parliament on the grounds that a monarch by divine right could not receive authority from an elected assembly.
Although unwilling to accept the crown from an elected assembly, Frederick William desired German unity under Prussian leadership and presented the Prussian Union plan for a confederation of Prussia and the smaller German states.
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 Frederick William IV of Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick William was a staunch RomanticismRomanticist, and his devotion to this movement, which in the German States featured a nostalgia for the Middle Ages, was largely responsible for him developing into a conservative at an early age.
He did attempt to establish the Erfut Union, a union of German states excluding Austria, soon after, but abandoned the idea by the Punctation of Olmütz on November 29, 1850, in the face of Austrian resistance.
A stroke in 1857 left the king partially paralyzed and largely mentally incapacitated, and his brother William served as regent from 1858 until the king's death in 1861, at which point he ascended the throne himself as Wilhelm I of GermanyWilliam I/.
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 Frederik IV 1699-1730   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick IV did not actively take part in the fighting, and it was left to the naval heroes Iver Huitfeldt and Peter Wessel to salvage the honour of Denmark-Norway.
In his later years, Frederick was strongly influenced by the pietistic movement and gave his support to the missionary activity of Hans Egede and Thomas von Westen in Greenland and Finnmark in north Norway.
Frederick IV died in Odense, Denmark, in 1730 and was succeeded by his son, Christian VI.
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 FREDERICK II. OF SAXONY - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK II. OF SAXONY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(1411-1464), called the Mild, elector and duke of Saxony, eldest son of the elector Frederick I., was born on the 22nd of August 1411.
In 1438 it was decided that Frederick, and not his rival, Bernard IV., duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, was entitled to exercise the Saxon electoral vote at the elections for the German throne; and the e~ector then aided Albert II.
1482) were the heirs of their childless cousin, Frederick the Peaceful, who ruled Thuringia and other parts of the lands of the Wettins.
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 Descendants of Frederick Byers, Sr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick was in Maryland in 1758, and had land in Westmoreland Co, PA at some unknown time.
Frederick is probably the son of Henrich Fehl, who came to America on the ship, "Winter Galley" as did Phillip Beyers.
Frederick was born in Frederick Co, MD which was created in 1748 from Prince Georges and Baltimore Counties.
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 Descendants of Johann Heinrich Eschbach - aqw20.htm
Sarah Catherine ASHBAUGH (William Henry Stanton ASHBAUGH, Frederick ASHBAUGH, Frederick ASHBAUGH, Johann Heinrich) was born 1837.
Frederick Alexander ASHBAUGH (William Henry Stanton ASHBAUGH, Frederick ASHBAUGH, Frederick ASHBAUGH, Johann Heinrich) was born 1846.
Frederick Ernest WESTBROOK was born 5 Sep 1884 and died 11 Feb 1955.
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 Adrian College - News & Info
Frederick Douglass IV, the great-great grandson of famed orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, will come to Adrian Nov. 13-20, and will be on the Adrian College campus Nov. 18-20.
Douglass IV works to perpetuate the memory of his great- great grandfather by keeping a busy speaking schedule.
He is the founder and current president of the Frederick Douglass Organization Inc., which he established to insure perpetuation of live performances of speeches by the famed orator.
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 Baltimore City Paper: NEWS On the Trail of Frederick Douglass in Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The sheep were headed for a nearby slaughterhouse; the boy was destined to become the greatest African-American of the 19th century, and arguably the greatest American ever to rise from the streets of Baltimore.
Frederick Douglass IV, who has been portraying his ancestor for the last three years, often hears the same complaint.
Douglass IV ascribes Baltimore's selective memory to "a kind of schizophrenia" that has afflicted the city since well before the Civil War, which split Marylanders' loyalties between North and South.
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 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Frederick Douglass, IV is the great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist, orator, editor, statesman, author, suffragist and publisher.
He is the founder of the non-profit Frederick Douglass Organization, Inc., the non-profit organization established to conduct activities that bring the words of Frederick Douglass to life through presentations to and dialogues with diverse groups, particularly youths of all races, creeds and colors.
Frederick Douglass IV, Mark E. Mitchell and Cole Goodwin: FDIV I think that it is important that you involve your daughters in all aspects of African American History, 365/24/7.
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 Archive Photos: Frederick William IV@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
King Frederick William IV of Prussia, pictured in his military uniform.
Ruler from 1840 to 1857, Frederick William IV attempted to uphold absolutist policies, but was forced to concede to a constitution following the Prussian Revolution of 1848.
Ruler from 1840 to 1857, Frederick William IV attempted to uphold absolutist policies, but...
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 Antiques Militaria Resources
Frederick William IV added civil class in 1842 reserved for scholars, men of letters, painters, sculptors, and musicians, which continues to be confered by a private council.
Established by the Elector Frederick II in 1440 and renewed by Frederick William IV 24.12.1843.
Renewed by Dukes Frederick of Altenburg, Ernest I of Coburg-Gotha, Bernard of Meiningen 25.12.1833.
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