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Topic: Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg Schwerin


  
  MECKLENBURG - Encyclopedia Britannica - MECKLENBURG - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It embraces the duchies of Schwerin and Gtistrow, the district of
Mecklenburg lies wholly within the great North-European plain, and its flat surface is interrupted only by one range of low hills, intersecting the country from south-east to north-west, and forming the watershed between the Baltic Sea and the Elbe.
Mecklenburg was divided between the two claimants, the shares given to each being represented by the existing duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the part which fell to Frederick William, and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the share of Adolphus Frederick.
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 Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (10 December 1756 - 1 February 1837) ruled over the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, first as Duke (1785-1815) and then as Grand Duke (1815-1837).
The son of Duke Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Friedrich Franz succeeded his uncle Friedrich as Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1785.
On his death in 1837 he was succeeded by his grandson, Grand Duke Paul Friedrich.
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 Regional Genealogy: Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg - Westpomerania) is a state in northeastern Germany, bounded on the north by the Baltic Sea (Ostsee), on the west by Schleswig - Holstein, on the southwest by Lower Saxony, on the south by Brandenburg, and on the east by Poland.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin consisted of: The Duchy of Schwerin, The Principality of Schwerin, The Wenden District of the Duchy of Güstrow, The Lordship of Wismar (Wismar and the surrounding area were under the rule of Sweden from 1648 to 1803), Rostock District, and The Domain of Scattered Convents.
From 1759 to 1764 all of Mecklenburg was occupied by Prussia.
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 Mecklenburger- Horse Breed - Pony Breed - Horse Breeding - Equiworld Equestrian Magazine
Mecklenburger - Equiworld horse breeds and horse breeding.
The founding of the Redefin State Stud was in 1812 by Duke Friedrich Franz I. of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to improve the horse breeding in the country.
Since 1951 the Redefin state stud is the centre of state stallion keeping not only for the Mecklenburg region, but also for Vorpommern which had been supplied with stallions from the state stud Labes in the Hinterpommern region (now part of Poland) up to 1945.
www.equiworld.net /breeds/mecklenburger   (666 words)

  
 Ancestors and Family of Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
The son of Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Paul Friedrich was educated at Geneva, Jena and Rostock, Paul Friedrich became heir-apparent to the throne of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1819, upon the death of his father, the Hereditary Prince.
In 1837 he succeeded his grandfather, Friedrich Franz I. His reign saw improvements in the infrastructure and judicial system of the Grand Duchy, as well as a change in the government's seat of residence from Ludwigslust to Schwerin.
Paul Friedrich died in 1842 of a cold caught while rushing to a fire in his capital city.
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 Schlösser und Herrenhäuser: Tourismusverband Mecklenburg - Vorpommern
The two Mecklenburg regions were conferred the title of grand dukedoms at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the Pommern regions fell completely to Prussia.
It was used as a summer residence by the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and his spouse Anastasia Michailowna (a nephew of the Tsar).
Virtually floating on Lake Schwerin the fairytale castle is surrounded by a picturesque castle garden, a recently reopened orangery and grotto that is unique in North Germany, and sculptures from Baltasar.
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 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Prussia (6 May 1882 - 20 July 1951), Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst Kronprinz von Preussen, was born 6 May 1882 at Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Germany.
On 6 June 1905 at Berlin he married Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 - 6 May 1954), the daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851-1897) and his wife Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860-1922).
He had received little command experience when he was given charge of the Fifth army in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I.
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 Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
The Mecklenburg dukes conspired with the Prussians to switch to the Allied side, and a Mecklenburg-Schwerin Brigade and a Mecklenburg-Strelitz Husaren-Regiment were formed in 1813.
In the 1866 war with Austria, Generaloberst Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin commanded a Prussian reserve corps, to which the dragoons and one infantry regiment were assigned, overran eastern Bavaria up to Nuremberg while the main Prussian force advanced on Königgrätz.
The Army Detachment was then disbanded and the Mecklenburgers and their Grand Duke, back in command of XIII Army Corps, fought under Prince Friedrich Karl von Preußen's 2nd Army in the January 1871 capture of Le Mans.
home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/schwerin.htm   (2082 words)

  
 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Royal Family
See 4.4 - Friedrich Ludwig predeceased his father Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I and the throne passed to his son Paul Friedrich.
Friedrich Ludwig predeceased his father Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I and the throne passed to his son Paul Friedrich.
He suffered from chronic asthma and although he was quite ill he had for some unknown reason gone outside his villa and was found dead in the road at the foot of the villa.
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 boys clothing: German royalty -- Mecklenburg Friedrich Franz iV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Friedrich Franz IV succeeded as Grand Duke in 1897 on the death of his father, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III.
Friedrich Franz married Alexandra, née Princess of Hanover (1882-).
Friedrich Franz IV was designated Regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1918 upon the death of his distant cousin, Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/gers/meck/royal-mecff4.htm   (244 words)

  
 Grand Ducal Standards 1815-1918 (Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany)
According to Siebmacher 1878, the grand ducal house of Schwerin used a flag of 3.75 m × 5.625 m with the middle arms on a white square (sides 1.75 m) in the middle.
The county of Schwerin in the central inescutcheon and in the quarters Mecklenburg (oxhead with hide), Rostock (griffin), principality of Schwerin (griffin and green rectangle), Ratzeburg (crowned cross), Stargard (hand holding ring) and Wenden (oxhead).
She married Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 7 June 1904 and was his consort until his abdication 14 November 1918.
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 The Former Ruling House of Estonia and Latvia, 1939-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Friedrich Franz IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882-1945).
Designated Regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1918 upon the death of his distant cousin, Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Succeeded as head of the house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on November 17, 1945, upon the death of his father, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV.
gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/houses/estonia.htm   (270 words)

  
 Ancestors of Prince Pavlos of Greece
Emperor Friedrich III von Hohenzollern of Germany, King of Prussia: born on 18 Oct 1831 in Potsdam; married on 25 Jan 1858 in St. James Palace, London; died on 15 Jun 1888 in Potsdam
Duke Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbrg-Augustenbrg: born on 6 Jul 1829 in Augustenburg; married on 11 Sep 1856 in Langenburg; died on 14 Jan 1880 in Wiesbaden
Prince Friedrich Karl von Hohenzollern of Prussia: born on 20 Mar 1828 in Berlin; married on 29 Nov 1854 in Dessau; died on 15 Jun 1885 in Jagd Schloss Klein-Glienicke
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of WILLIAM I "the Bastard"
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz of Lippe & Fact 2: Cs.
of Hubertus Franz von Posern & Verena Elisabeth von Schuschnigg.................................................................................................
30 [7772] Friedrich Wilhelm August of Hesse and by Rhine b: 1870 d: 1873 in Darmstadt of Hemophilia as a result of a fall from a window Fact 1: Pr.
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 Women in power 1770-1800
In 1794 her late husband's relative, Friedrich III von Salm-Kyburg died, and she possibly became one of the regents for his son, Friedrich IV (1789-94-1801-59) whose mother had already died.
She was the 14th and last child of the Elector of Sachsen and King of Poland and Lithauen, Friedrich August II and Maria Josepha von Habsburg.
The oldest daughter of Heinrich Paul Franz II, Count von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Fürst von Fondi and his second wife Marie Josefa Czerninova z Chudenicz, she was the sole heiress of the Mansfeld-Querfurt Line of the Conts of Mandsfeld.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10186
     Friedrich Franz II Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 28 February 1823 in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
     Friedrich Franz II Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin succeeded to the title of Großherzog Friedrich Franz II von Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 7 March 1842.
She married Friedrich Franz II Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of Paul Friedrich Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Friederike Wilhelmine Alexandrine Marie Helene Prinzessin von Preußen, on 4 July 1868 in Rudolstadt, Germany.
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 Genealogie Koninklijk huis 06 - parkstad.com
Friedrich Ferdinand of Saxe-Weimar (1758-1793) Elisabeth Christina of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1746-1840) married 1765, divorced 1769 her cousin king Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797), see below.
Sophie of Prussia (1719-1765) married 1734 her 2nd cousin Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700-1771) August William of Prussia (1722-1758) married 1742 Luise of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1722-1780).
The eldest, Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823-1883) married 3rdly 1868 Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850-1922).
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 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Feldsberg, the modern Valtice in the Czech Republic, he apparently studied first there with the organist Franz Anton Becker, before moving to Vienna, where he was a double bass pupil of Friedrich Pichlberger, a member of Emanuel Schikaneder’s orchestra.
From 1777 until 1783 he served as a chamber musician in the musical establishment of the Cardinal Primate of Hungary, Prince Joseph von Batthyányi in Pressburg, the modern Bratislava and, as Pozsony, the then capital of the kingdom of Hungary, giving solo performances also at the Stadttheater in Brünn (Brno).
The Pressburg orchestra included fifteen string-players, the oboists Johann and Philipp Teimer and the horn-players Karl Franz and Anton Böck, and there were string-players able to double on clarinets, bassoon and flute, as necessary.
www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Sperger,+Johannes+Matthias   (286 words)

  
 Royal News: August 2001
The Queen Mother was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital in London where she had a blood transfusion for anaemia.
Yesterday Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Franz von Mecklenburg-Schwerin died in Hamburg-Blankenese.
Friedrich Franz was born at Schwerin Castle on April 22nd, 1910.
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 Ancestors of Queen Margrethe II to Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born on 24 Dec 1879 in Schwerin, Germany.
Friedrich Franz III died in Cannes, France on 10 Apr 1897; he was 46.
On 24 Jan 1879 when Friedrich Franz III was 27, he married Anastasia Michailovna Russia Grand Duchess, 1337, in St Petersburg, Russia.
www.knotsystem.dk /tksdata/Denmark/AT01/AT01_001.htm   (697 words)

  
 Biography - page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden was born in Mecklenburg (Northern Germany) in 1856.
He was helped in this venture by the timely gift of a large full-plate camera from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, whom he knew from childhood and who was a great admirer and collector of his work.
There are also pictures that are not meant to express a specific idea, but show the dreamy state of vague expectation characteristic of adolescence, and these appear the most truthful and convincing.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the middle of the 19th century one third of the stallions were Thoroughbred, who threatened to over-refine the strong warmblood type for agricultural and military purposes.
The state stud was closed in 1960 in the course of the overall decline of horse breeding.
The Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II founded in 1732 the later central stud ("Hauptgestuet") Trakehnen to breed the stallions for the other state studs.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/3452/German.warmblut.txt   (6365 words)

  
 Namnlöst dokument
Since she was married to Duke Heinrich of Mecklenburg (from the branch Mecklenburg-Schwerin), it could be argued that the Dutch throne belonged to the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1948-1980 (when Juliana was Queen).
These are the lines: Friedrich Ludwig - Paul Friedrich - Friedrich Franz II - Heinrich - Juliana - Beatrix and Friedrich Ludwig - Helene - Louis Philippe - Louis - Maria - Juan Carlos.
These are the lines: Friedrich Wilhelm III - Alexandrine - Friedrich Franz II - Heinrich - Juliana - Beatrix and Friedrich Wilhelm III - Wilhelm I - Friedrich III - Sophie - Pavlos I - Konstantinos II.
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 Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
The Mecklenburg military contingents had been jointly administered since the 18th Century, and a fuller discussion of their military history will be found under Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which provided the bulk of the forces.
In the Mecklenburg contingents of the Imperial German Army, the two units most directly associated with Mecklenburg-Strelitz were the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment Nr.
The Cross for Distinction in War was established by Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm on March 10, 1871.
home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/strelitz.htm   (1284 words)

  
 The Wedding of Juan Carlos of Spain and Sophia of Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
King Paul I of the Hellenes was the youngest son of King Constantine I and Queen Sophie, born a Princess of Prussia.
Sophie was the third daughter of Kaiser Friedrich III and Kaiserin Victoria, who was Queen Victoria's eldest child.
Wilhelm II and Queen Sophie of Greece were siblings, both being children of Kaiser Friedrich III and Kaiserin Victoria.
www.eurohistory.com /JuanSophia.html   (1583 words)

  
 boys clothing: German royalty--Frederich Wilhelm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Crown Prince attended the wedding of Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with Princess Alexandra of Hanover on July 4, 1904.
She was the daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III and his wife the Grand Duchess Anastasia Michailowna Romanov, a niece of Tsar Alexander II.
She was born on September 20, 1886 at the Palace in Schwerin.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ger/fwcp/fwc-fh.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Bahnhof Teterow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Zur Einweihung kamen die Großherzöge Friedrich Franz II.
von Mecklenburg Schwerin und Friedrich Wilhelm I. von Mecklenburg Strelitz nach Teterow.
The Grand Dukes Wilhelm I of Mecklenburg Schwerin and Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg visited Teterow on this.
www.frequence-sille.org /comeniusproject/contents/sujetsm/page.php?p=32&pp=1   (115 words)

  
 Johann Matthias Sperger
Embedded into the soft and beautiful landscape of Mecklenburg, it is possible to combine well the intensive work with the relaxation, necessary for the success of the competition.
The mayor of the city of Ludwigslust is awarding a spezial prize of 1000 DM The Festival of Mecklenburg Vorpommern is procuring a solo appearance for one of the winners in the Festival 2001.
The Schweriner Chamberorchestra is inviting the winner to solo appearances the 30th.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10170
     Friedrich Franz V Erbgroßherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 22 April 1910 in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
He is the son of Friedrich Franz IV Michael Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Alexandra Luise Hanover, Princess of Hanover.
He succeeded to the title of Großherzog Friedrich Franz V von Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 17 November 1945.
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 Grand Duchies 2
A scarce Third Class Service Cross for nine years service in the Army of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for an enlisted man. This bronze-toned cross has the cypher of Franz Friedrich of Mecklenburg- Schwerin on one side and the Roman numerals IX on the other.
This decoration is the Iron Cross 1st Class equivalent from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
This is the Friedrich August Cross 2nd Class from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
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