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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.
		Friedrich Wilhelm was born in Berlin, to Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg and Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz.
		He simplified travel in the ancestral lands of Brandenburg and Ducal 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Brandenburg (362 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM I. OF PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM I. OF PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William succeeded in obtaining the consent of Sweden to the cession of that part of Pomerania which he had occupied (Usedom, Wollin, Stettin, Hither Pomerania, east of the Peene) in return for a payment of 2,000,000 thalers.
		Frederick William turned forhelp to the westernpowers, England and France, and secured it by the treaty of alliance signed at Herrenhausen on the 3rd of September 1725 (Leagueof Hanover).
		Frederick William had manyopponents among the nobles because he pressed on the abolition of the old feudal rights, introduced in East Prussia and Lithuania o general land tax (the General- hufenschoss), and finally in 1739 attacked in a special edict the Legen, i.e.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_I_OF_PRUSSIA.htm (1693 words)

	MSN Encarta - Prussia
		Frederick William's son, Frederick I, became king of Prussia in 1701, receiving royal recognition in exchange for a promise of military aid to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
		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'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.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761559027 (1014 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM OF BRANDENBURG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Having become ruler of Brandenburg and Prussia by his fathers death in December 1640, Frederick William set to work at once to repair the extensive damage wrought during the Thirty Years War, still in progress.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_OF_BRANDENBURG.htm (1120 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany
		Frederick's policy was, in the main, not to interfere with the rights of the German princes as long as they obeyed the laws of the empire.
		Like his father, Frederick II made Italy the centre of his policy; but at the same time he intended to keep the control of Germany in his own hands, as the imperial power was connected with this country and he must draw the soldiers needed for his Italian projects from Germany.
		Frederick, who was appealed to by both Rome and Basle, at first remained neutral; then he proposed the calling of a new council to reunite divided Christianity.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06484b.htm (20891 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(1744-1797), king of Prussia, son of Augustus William, second son of King Frederick William I. and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick, sister of the wife of Frederick the Great, was born at Berlin on the 2 5th of September 1744, and became heir to the throne on his fathers death in 1757.
		Frederick Williams accession to the throne (August 17, 1786) was, indeed, followed by a series of measures for lightening the burdens of the people, reforming the oppressive French system of tax-collecting introduced by Frederick, and encouraging trade by the diminution of customs dues and the making of roads and canals.
		In 1781 Frederick William, then prince of Prussia, inclined, like many sensual natures, to mysticism, had joined the Rosicrucians, and had fallen under the influence of Johann Christof Wollner (1732-1800), and by him the royal policy was inspired.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_II_OF_PRUSSIA.htm (1218 words)

	Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William immediately negotiated an armistice with Sweden and then turned to building his military strength.
		Frederick William subsequently joined Sweden in its war against Poland (1655–60) but deserted the Swedes after Russia and Denmark entered the war.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/FredWBra.html (327 words)

	Frederick William and Brandenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William realised that if he wanted Brandenburg-Prussia to be a major power in Europe, he had to bring the state up-to-date with the other powers in Europe, especially threats like Sweden and Russia.
		Frederick William was especially keen to tempt Huguenots to Brandenburg-Prussia as they had a European reputation for expertise in business.
		To develop the state, Frederick William knew that Brandenburg-Prussia needed a better transport system and by the time of his death in 1688, industrial travel in Brandenburg-Prussia was transformed by the Frederick William Canal.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /frederick_william_and_brandenbur.htm (830 words)

	Brandenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick II Iron Tooth (reigned 1440–70) curbed the rebellious nobles and the towns and was periodically disturbed by wars with the neighbouring Pomeranians, over whom his brother and successor, Albert III Achilles (reigned 1470–86), finally established suzerainty.
		Frederick William acquired eastern Pomerania, the secularized bishoprics of Halberstadt, Minden, and Kammin, and the archbishopric of Magdeburg.
		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 (1001 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Prussia
		Frederick William centralized the administration of the duchy and assumed governing powers that were formerly exercised by the nobility and the town oligarchies.
		Frederick William's son, Frederick I, became king of Prussia in 1701, receiving royal recognition in exchange for a promise of military aid to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. 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 was defeated, and much of his territory was lost.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559027__1/Prussia.html (1057 words)

	War and 18th Century Europe
		Frederick believed that Silesia should be his reward for the support he planned to give Maria Theresa and for his vote, as an elector, in selecting her husband as the new Holy Roman Emperor.
		Frederick was happy to have France as an ally against Habsburg hostility, and in signing a defensive treaty with the French he promised to cast his vote for their friend, Charles Albert of Bavaria, rather than for Francis Stephen, for emperor.
		Frederick had learned from the last war that it was dangerous to leave a hostile Saxony on his border while fighting others, and he did not want to commit that mistake twice.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h31-gr.htm (9343 words)

	Frederick William and foreign policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William and Brandenburg-Prussia gained a well deserved reputation in Europe and Frederick William became a very much sought after ally.
		By 1688, Brandenburg-Prussia’s military reputation was such that Frederick William and then Frederick I could pick and be selective with regards to her allies.
		Frederick William had no love for Louis XIV and the alliance between Brandenburg-Prussia and France during the Thirty Years War had been one of pure convenience.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /frederick_william_and_foreign_po.htm (608 words)

	Genealogy - The Rulers of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick I Barbarossa, Duke of Swabia, son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia and nephew of Conrad III.
		Frederick II, son of Henry VI and of Matilda, daughter of King Henry II of England, and grandson of Frederick Barbarossa, was born 1194 and died 1250.
		Frederick I (Frederick William) of Prussia, son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.
	www.provenlines.com /hist8.html (1938 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany).
		The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear.
		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)

	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.
		The installation of Count Brandenburg's government in November was its most important success, leading to Wrangel's reoccupation of Berlin, the dispersal of the Prussian national assembly, and the imposition of the constitution of December 1848.
	cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/fred.htm (999 words)

	The Rise of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William, the founder of the Prussian state, ruled for almost a half century, from 1640 to 1688.
		Frederick was a tolerant unbeliever and it was by this religious enlightenment that he was a men of his time, a colleague of the philosophes.
		Frederick II was probably the greatest Prussian of history, but not the political incarnation of free thought, as the philosophes would have us believe.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/04prussian.html (2557 words)

	time3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
		William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
		Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg province of Silesia.
	cla.umn.edu /clanet/marko/time3.htm (4148 words)

	Frederick William -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Frederick II was born on Jan. 24, 1712, in Berlin.
		His father was King Frederick William I. His mother was Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, sister of George II of England.
		English dancer and choreographer Frederick Ashton was known primarily for his years as a choreographer with the Royal Ballet.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035259?tocId=9035259&query=frederick (705 words)

	History of PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 William the Great Hohenzollern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Friedrich Wilhelm (Frederick William) of Brandenburg, Kurfürst of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia 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.
		Frederick married Louise Henriette of Orange, daughter of Frederik Hendrik of Orange and Amalia von Solms, on 7 Dec 1646 in The Hague, Netherlands.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/4054.htm (393 words)

	Articles - Frederick William I of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick William I of Prussia (in German: Friedrich Wilhelm I), of the House of Hohenzollern, (August 14, 1688 â“ 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.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Prussia?mySession=a15c342ff33f465b14c241b39ffd624a (551 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM II - Online Information article about FREDERICK WILLIAM II
		Christ." Such was the man whom Frederick William II., immediately after his accession, called to his counsels.
		In the circumstances Frederick William's intervention in European affairs was not likely to prove of benefit -to Prussia.
		York, and from whom he was divorced in 1769; (2) in 1769 to Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, by whom he had four sons, Frederick William III., Louis (d.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_II.html (2271 words)

	Geographic Terms File 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David's grandson William the Lion, who was crowned king of Scotland in 1165, attempted to regain Northumbria by giving military aid to a rebellion in 1173 and 1174 against Henry II of England.
		In 1174 William was taken prisoner and compelled, by the provisions of the Treaty of Falaise, to swear fealty to the English king.
		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.
	www.jaenfield.com /genealogy/Enf_Bry/g7.html (18063 words)

	EIGHTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Frederick William II of PRUSSIA was born in 1744 in Prussia - son of Augustus William.
		Frederick William III of PRUSSIA King of Prussia.
		Elizabeth BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTEL (daughter of Prince of BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTEL and Philippina Charlotte of PRUSSIA) was born in Brunswick - dtr of?.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7873.htm (141 words)

	WHKMLA : Absolutism - Standing Armies
		In Brandenburg (since 1701 Prussia), Frederick William, the Great Elector spent most of the Brandenburg revenue to establish a standing army.
		Brandenburg entered wars, at times for the purpose to expand the territories of the Duke-Elector (so in the First Northern War 1655-1660, in the Second Northern War 1675-1679, in the War of Spanish Succession 1701-1713.
		Brandenburg gained few territories through conquest, but the Emperor supported Brandenburg's claim to a number of territories the succession of which was disputed, and Brandenburg thus acquired Tecklenburg 1707, Lingen 1702, Neuchatel 1707, Moers 1702.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/period/absolut/starm.html (710 words)

	Sweden
		Frederick IV of Denmark, Peter the Great of Russia, and Augustus II of Poland and Saxony began the Great Northern War in 1700 to wrest Sweden's Baltic provinces from the youthful king.
		Frederick I (of Sweden) (1676-1751), king of Sweden (1720-51), born in Kassel, Germany.
		Frederick was succeeded by Adolph Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, who was selected by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/sweden.htm (4127 words)

	The Patrin Web Journal - Timeline of Romani (Gypsy) History
		Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg, decrees that Roma are not to be allowed trade or shelter.
		Frederick William I condemns any Roma over eighteen caught in his territory, man or woman, to be hanged without trial.
		Frederick William I decrees that any Roma caught in his territory, man or woman, will be hanged without trial.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/5121/timeline.htm (9433 words)

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