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  Grand Duchy Of Baden - LoveToKnow 1911
The Baden contingent continued to assist France, and by the peace of Vienna in 1809 the grandduke was rewarded with accessions of territory at the expense of the kingdom of Wurttemberg.
In 1815 Baden became a member of the Germanic confederation established by the Act of the 8th of June, annexed to the Final Act of the congress of Vienna of the 9th of June.
The troops of Baden took a conspicuous share in the war of 1870; and it was the grand-duke of Baden, who, in the historic assembly of the German princes at Versailles, was the first to hail the king "of Prussia as German emperor.
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Leopold was killed in 1386 at the battle of Sempach, and Albert became guardian for his four nephews, who subsequently ruled their lands in common.
Francis, the dispossessed duke of Lorraine, was to be compensated with Tuscany.
Leopold, therefore, who made his debut on the European stage as the executor of the ban of the Empire against the insurgent Liegeois, was free to pose as the champion of order against the Revolution, without needing to fear the resentment of his subjects.
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 boys clothing: European royalty -- Baden
Karl Friderich Zähringen Grand Duke of Baden was born in 1728.
Leopold I Zähringen, Grand Duke of Baden was born in 1790.
Frederick I Zähringen of Baden, Grand Duke of Baden was born in 1826.
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Grand Duchess Louise of HOHENZOLLERN was born about 1830 in Prussia - dtr of William I. She died in Baden - wife of Grand Duke Frederick William.
Grand Duke Frederick William of BADEN (son of Grand Duke Leopold of BADEN) was born about 1825.
Prince Maximilian of BADEN was born on 10 Jul 1867 in Baden-Baden - son of Prince William.
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 Germany - Baden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Baden thus became a satellite of France but was well compensated by its new ally for the possessions it had lost...
Accordingly, in 1803 Baden was made an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire and in 1806, on the Empire's dissolution, a Grand Duchy and a member of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine.
Baden as a unified state was recognised as a sovereign member of the newly formed German Confederation by the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15.
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 Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Baden
Baden was relatively quiet after these upheavals, and enjoyed a degree of stability under one of the longest serving monarches of the 19th century.
In 1871, the Grand Duchy became part of the German Empire, which it remained part of until the abdication of the Kaiser and the Grand Duke in November 1918.
Having been elevated to Grand Duke and his territory made a part of the Confederation of the Rhine, Karl Friedrich was obligated to provide a contingent of Badeners for Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On October 31, 1797 Gustav married Friederika, granddaughter of Karl Friedrich, Margrave of Baden, a marriage which seemed to threaten war with Russia but for the fanatical hatred of the French republic shared by the Emperor Paul of Russia and Gustav IV Adolf, which served as a bond of union between them.
On June 5 the duke regent was proclaimed king under the title of Charles XIII, after accepting a new new liberal constitution, which was ratified by the diet the same day.
Sofia Wilhelmina would marry Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, whose descendant Victoria of Baden would marry into the House of Bernadotte, i.e Gustav V of Sweden.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baden
Baden is situated in the southwestern part of the German Empire, bounded by Switzerland, Alsace, the Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg, covering an area of 5,821 square miles.
Baden (1475-1527) had in 1503 united all the family territory, but the division in 1533 between his two sons Bernhard III and Ernest separated the margravate into two parts which were not reunited until 1771.
Baden to the Confederation of the Rhine (1806),
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 Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (29 August 179024 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the fourth Grand Duke of Baden.
When Grand Duke Ludwig died on March 30, 1830, he was the last male of the House of Baden not descended from the morganatic marriage of Karl Friederich and Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg.
On 25 July 1819, Leopold married his (half) great-niece Sophie of Sweden (* 21 May 1801; 6 July 1865), the eldest daughter of the former King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederika, who herself was a daughter of Hereditary Grand Duke Karl Ludwig of Baden (Leopold's half-brother).
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 Royal Russia - The Grand Dukes of Russia
Grand Duke Constantine remarried (morganatically) at Warsaw 24 May 1820, to Joanna, created Princess Lowicka with the qualification of Serene Highness by Emperor Alexander I 1820 (born at Warsaw 29 September 1799; died at Tsarskoe Selo 29 November 1831), daughter of Count Antoni Grudna Grudzinscy, by his first wife Marianna Dorpowska.
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich died in London 26 April 1929 and is buried at Hampstead Cemetary.
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Perm sometime between 18 and 28 July 1918.
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 CFB Baden Soellingen Remembered Crossroad
A city with walls and towers was built, The The Margrave of Baden and his Knights hold the rights to the thermal baths, In the middle ages when the Plague broke out the streets were flooded with the steaming waters of the springs; miraculously the Plague no longer spread.
The Margrave's court returned to Baden and Rastatt became a garrison town, In 1848/49, mutiny broke cut which had to be quelled by the Prussian army, It is interesting to note that the flag of the revolt was fl, red, and gold - the colours of the present Federal German Republic.
In 1835, Grand Duke Leopold of Baden raised Buehl officially to the status of a town.
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 The Almanach de Chivalry , Imperial and Royal Orders of The Holy Roman Empire .
The Grand Bailiff was also given the task of supervising the inspection of the governor and garrison of the Castle of Saint Peter of Halicarnassus and the coast of Asia Minor, which he was required to visit annually.
The Grand Master and Council could not recognize this declaration of secession by the protestant commanderies and the title of Bailiff of Brandenburg continued to be given, as an honorific, to a senior German knight.
The new Grand Master, the Archduke Anton, was the son of the Emperor Leopold II and brother of Francis I of Austria, and had already been elected Prince Bishop of Munster and Archbishop of Cologne.
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 Pretender - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
descendant of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, unanimously declared Head of the Bourbon Two Sicilies by all relatives except for Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria and his children due to the fact that the Infante's senior branch of the family abdicated their claims in order to be in line for the Spanish throne.
The arguments are, on one side, that Philip V of Spain renounced any future claim to the French throne when he became King of Spain, and that the Dukes of Orleans were therefore recognized as the next heirs before the French Revolution.
There was also a woman named Anna Anderson who attempted to prove she was the lost daughter of Nicholas II, Anastasia, but DNA testing on her alleged remains seemed to prove her claim false.
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 Princess Maria Georgievna of Greece and Denmark at AllExperts
On April 30, 1900, Maria was married to Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia in Corfu.
The Grand Duke was the second surviving son of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich of Russia and Olga Fedorovna of Baden.
Anna claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, a daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and granddaughter of Alexander III.
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 Baden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The grand duchy of Baden was severely shaken by the Baden Revolution of 1848, which temporarily unseated the Grand Duke Leopold before being forcibly suppressed with the help of Prussian troops.
Baden later sided with Austria (against the German kingdom of Prussia, Baden's ally) in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), but nevertheless joined the newly-unified German Empire in 1871.
This Baden was the capital (1798—1803) of Baden canton under the Helvetic Republic.
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 Friedrich I Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden - Romanov Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Friedrich I Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden - Romanov Genealogy
Karl Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (b.
Friedrich II Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden (b.
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Married in 1856 in Berlin Princess Louise of Prussia (*1838 Berlin,†1923 Baden Baden).
GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE (HESSE-DARMSTADT TO 1866) 1806-1918:
Married in 1804 in Karlsruhe Princess Wilhelmina of Baden (*1788 Karlsruhe,†1836 Darmstadt).
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 Baden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Baden Renown for its progressive government and high level parliamentary debates, Baden achieved recognition throughout Germany as a model of liberalism.
Baden's many small towns (the largest, Mannheim had only 24,000) benefitted from close contact with French, Swiss and other German cent ers in fostering an animated public life.
Even in the grand duke's absence he dared not declare a republic; he vainly hoped to avoid external intervention by not exporting the revolution; he collaborated with the discredited bureaucracy.
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 WHKMLA : History of Baden, 1815-1871
In 1818 Baden adopted a written CONSTITUTION which was the envy of liberal patriots elsewhere in Germany and a model to liberal constitutions drafted for other German states.
The second chamber of the Baden parliament was an exercising ground for German liberalism.
In 1870 Baden declared chose the side of Prussia in the FRANCO-GERMAN WAR; in 1871 the Grand Duke of Baden was among the German princes who elected King Wilhelm of Prussia German Emperor.
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 Baden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Baden Renown for its progressive government and high level parliamentary debates, Baden achieved recognition throughout Germany as a model of liberalism.
Soon other garrisons joined in the revolt, whereupon the grand duke fled the state and appealed for intervention from both the Frankfurt government and Prussia.
Even in the grand duke's absence he dared not declare a republic; he vainly hoped to avoid external intervention by not exporting the revolution; he collaborated with the discredited bureaucracy.
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 Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden (November 22, 1728 in Karlsruhe – June 10, 1811 in Karlsruhe) was the son of Hereditary Prince Friedrich of Baden and Anna of Nassau-Dietz-Orange (October 13, 1710 – September 17, 1777), the daughter of William Friso of Nassau-Dietz-Orange.
To prevent Baden from being inherited by the next heir (and brother-in-law), King Maximilian I of Bavaria, the reigning Grand Duke, Karl, changed the succession law to give the Hochberg family full dynastic rights in Baden.
Leopold, the eldest son, succeeded as Grand Duke in 1830.
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He is considered one of Baden's most outstanding leaders, a true political reformer and progressive.
As nominal head of Baden's military forces, he served as a colonel general with the rank of field marshal, attaining that rank in June 1888.
Friedrich I. is buried on the Island of Mainau in Lake Constance.
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 Baden 4
Grand Duke KARL Ludwig Friedrich of Baden (1811-18), *Karlsruhe 8.6.1786, +Rastatt 8.12.1818; m.Paris 8.4.1806 Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Princesse Française (*28.8.1789 +29.1.1860)
FRIEDRICH I Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), *Karlsruhe 9.9.1826, +Mainau 28.9.1907; m.Berlin 20.9.1856 Pss Luise of Prussia (*Berlin 3.12.1838, +Baden-Baden 23.4.1923)
FRIEDRICH II Wilhelm Ludwig Leopold August, Grand Duke of Baden (1907-18), abdicated XI.1918, *Karlsruhe 9.7.1857, +Badenweiler 9.8.1928; m.Schloß Hohenburg 20.9.1885 Pss Hilda of Nassau, Pss of Luxemburg (*Biebrich 5.11.1864, +Badenweiler 8.2.1952)
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 Genealogy of the Grand-Ducal Family of Baden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grand-Ducal Princess and Margravine Leopoldine Wilhelmine Pauline Amalie Maximiliane of Baden
HGDH Grand-Ducal Princess and Margravine Luise Amalie Stephanie of Baden
HGDH Grand-Ducal Princess and Margravine Josephine Friederike Luise of Baden
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 Masterpiece Theatre | The Lost Prince | The Insider! Lost Royals! | The Wild Child!
Ever the controlling mother, she made Leopold sneak into the castle to steal the young prince and replace him with a sickly peasant child.
This child died, followed by his father, Grand Duke Karl, in 1818, clearing the way for Leopold to assume the throne in 1830.
The frequent attempts on Hauser's life, the participation of Stanhope, and the Baden family's attempts to keep the story quiet, seem to indicate some truth to the story that Hauser was the lost prince.
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 HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF WITTELSBACH - ROYAL HOUSE OF BAVARIA AND PRINCELY HOUSE OF LÖWENSTEIN
Ludwig III, Duke of Bavaria (1229-1294), divided his inheritance with his younger brother Henry (1235-1290) but these possessions returned to the senior line on the extinction of Henry’s male line in 1339.
Maximilian was elevated to the dignity of Elector of the Empire with the deprivation of that title from the Elector Palatine 25 Feb 1623 (this title restored by the Treaty of Westphalia 1648, increasing the number of Electors).
The achievement is borne on a mantle purpure, fringed and tasselled or, doubled ermine and surmounted by the Royal Crown of Bavaria.
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 Karl Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden - Romanov Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Karl Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden - Romanov Genealogy
Baden, Karl Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden
Friedrich I Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden (b.
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