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  reuss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The members of this line were numbered sequentially, the last series beginning with Heinrich I (born 1693) and ending with Heinrich XXIV (1878-1927).
This line became princes in 1806, and its members bore the title Prince Reuss, jüngere Linie, though they are also referred to by their branch names (e.g.
The two principalities of Reuss "Elder Line" and "Younger Line" were members of the German Confederation, of the North German Confederation, and of the German Empire.
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 Decorations of the Principalities of Reuss
Reuss was then united, perhaps ironically, as a People's Republic; the communists were soon defeated, however, and Reuss entered the Weimar Republic as a part of the new state of Thuringia.
The primary contribution of the Reuss principalities was the 2nd battalion of the 7.
The Reuss contribution to the German Confederation army was, from the Reuss Younger Line, the Fürstlich Reussisches Füsilier-Bataillon, and from the Reuss Elder Line, a Jäger-Abteilung.
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The Younger Line, the Grafen Reuss zu Gera, zu Schleiz, zu Lobenstein, zu Köstriz und zu Ebersdorf, became princes in 1806, and its members bore the title Prince Reuss, Younger Line, though they are also referred to by their branch names (e.g.
The designation jüngere Linie ("younger line") was dropped in 1930; the "elder line" had become extinct as its last member, Heinrich XXIV, renounced his rights in 1918 and died in 1927 unmarried.
The principalities of Reuss were parts of the Holy Roman Empire, the Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, and the German Empire.
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The land under their rule gradually increased in size, and it is said that the name of Reuss was applied to it owing to the fact that one of the princes married a Russian princess, their son being called "der Russe", or the Russian.
The lords of Reuss took the title of count in 1673; and the head of the elder line because a prince of the Empire in 1778, and the head of the younger line in 1806.
In the younger line the first prince born in a new century is numbered I., and the numbers follow on until the end of the century when they begin again.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Wilhelm_II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
All of these Chancellors were senior civil servants and not politicians like Bismarck.
He invited the boy and his mother, Hermine, daughter of Prince Henry XXII of Reuss and a descendant of William the Conqueror, to Doorn.
Taken by her beauty and delighted by her companionship, he married her on November 9, 1922 over the objections of his children.
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HEINRICH ADOLF KOESTLIN (†), Ph.D., Th.D., GEORG MUELLER, Ph.D., Th.D., Late Privy Councilor in Cannstadt, formerly Professor of Theology, University of Giessen.
He married first Sophia Reuss, a German, in Moscow, July 11, 1834, who died in childbed in Shusha, May 12, 1835; second, Emily Swinburne, an Englishwoman, in Calcutta, Jan. 19, 1841, who bore him three boys and three girls, and survived him fifteen years.
As one of the envoys of John of Meissen, Pflug endeavored, in 1539, to secure from the papal nuncio, Alexander, who was then at Vienna, adhesion to his project for a reform of Roman Catholicism along the lines already indicated, only to be obliged to wait for the decision of the pope.
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 Minor German States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This represents one line (usually the elder) of the Junior branch of the Nassau dynasts.
The Family of Reuss is noted for always naming every male child "Heinrich", using a variety of ennumeration systems to differentiate one from another; a practice adhered to since the 12th century.
From 1672, the senior surviving branch of the House of Wettin.
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 Germany Fotos
1632-37 Regent Dowager Countess Agnes Reuss zu Gera of Mansfeld zu Heldrugen,
The widow of Heinrich IV she was joint regent with another relative, Heinrich I of Reuss zu Schleiz, during the minority of Heinrich XVIII.
The Countess Palentine by the Rhine was married to Heinrich IX der Welf.
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 boys clothing : European royalty -- German states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was retained by the Swabian or senior line of the Hohenzollern family which is relatively unimportant in German history.
The daughter of Prince Henry XXII of Reuss, Princess Hermine mairred the former Kaiser II soon after this wifes's death in 1922.
When the heritary line expired, Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to convey the principality to Carl-Edward, prince of Great Britain, Duke of Albany, who was the posthumous son of Victoria's youngest son, Leopold, Duke of Albany.
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 Germany N-R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
To Nassau-Weilburg: Line continued as Royal House of the Netherlands...
Partitioned between an elder line in Hohenrechberg and a younger line in Aichen and Staufeneck
The Family of Reuss is noted for always naming every male child "Heinrich", each branch of the family using a variety of ennumeration systems to differentiate one from another; a practice adhered to since the 12th century.
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Their Fullfield line of binoculars (which include 7x35, 8x40, 10x50) is touted to have a generous enough eye relief (1 inch claimed) to see the entire wide field of view, even with glasses, hence the name.
Most of the buyers of top of the line binoculars are buying for their ego and pride of ownership: the quality they are getting is just a side benefit.
The commercial knock on porros has always been their relatively greater size and weight when compared to roof prism glasses, and roof prism glasses have certainly improved over the last years to the point where the usual advantages of porro prism glasses (e.g., wider and brighter field of view) have greatly lessened.
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 German States to 1918 R-Z
Fürst Reuss zu Schleiz (und Gera), Graf und Herr von
28 Mar 1692 - 28 Jul 1726 Heinrich XI (b.
17 Mar 1723 - 17 Mar 1768 Heinrich XI (b.
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159.] not the inconsolable Schaffgotsch senior, but his Nephew, was one of the guests this second day; an ecclesiastic, but of witty fashionable type, and I think a very worthless fellow, though of a family important in the Province.
How happy when it could get under some effectual Protector, of the Liegnitz line, of the Austrian-Bohemian line, and this or the other battering, just suffered, was to be the last for some time!--Here again is a battering coming on it; the first of a series that are now imminent.
Graf von Beuss is one of those indistinct Counts Reuss, who always call themselves "Henry;" and, being now at the eightieth and farther, with uncountable collateral Henrys intertwisted, are become in effect anonymous, or of nomenclature inscrutable to mankind.
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151, col. 2, line 21: Read "at St. Johns, was erected into a diocese in 1847, and into an archdiocese and metropolitan see in 1904."
He was educated at the University of Göttingen (1824-27) and, after being a private tutor for some time, became, in 1829, "collaborator" at the Kreuzkirche in Hanover, where he was assistant pastor from 1837 until 1851, and senior pastor from 1851 until his death.
During the years 1830-37 his convictions gradually changed from rationalistic to orthodox.
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 Provisional Listo of Orders
In 1918, after the fall of the monarchy, it was separated from the State and became independent, although it is still recognized and regulated in legislation of the German Federal Republic.
It is present in Austria, Canada and the United States and also works in Germany with hospitals and senior nursing homes.
Since that time members of the senior branch, descended from H.R.H. Prince Pedro, have disputed the validity of his renunciation.
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