FREDERICK I, Elector of Brandenburg

1371–1440, elector of Brandenburg (1415–40), first of the Hohenzollerns (see Hohenzollern, family) to rule Brandenburg. As Frederick VI, burgrave of Nuremburg, he served under King Sigismund of Hungary (later Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund) against the Ottomans in E Europe and took part in the battle of Nikopol (1396), in which the crusaders were defeated. As a reward for aiding Sigismund's election as emperor (1410), Sigismund granted (1411) Frederick a regency over Brandenburg and named him (1415) elector of Brandenburg; in 1417 he was formally invested with the electoral dignity. After subduing the recalcitrant nobles of Brandenburg, Frederick departed (1425) to command the imperial forces against the Hussites, but he later broke with Sigismund. His own ambition to be emperor was never fulfilled, but at his death the Hohenzollerns were well ensconced in Brandenburg.

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books on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 1080 results

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The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia
Book by Margaret Shennan; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Brandenburg (Germany)--History, Friedrich Wilhelm--Elector Of Brandenburg--1620-1688, Prussia (Germany)--History--1640-1740
...apprenticeship of Frederick William I 1640-48...The Great Elector: foreign...aftermath of Westphalia...Brandenburg and the first...mortgage the (Brandenburg) Mark, one of his advisors...apprenticeship of Frederick William I 1640-48 The new Elector, Frederick...but forces of ones own...the Great Elector in 1667...respect he set Brandenburg-Prussia in...Elector Frederick William I was driven...
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The Youth of Frederick the Great
Book by Ernest Lavisse, Stephen Louis Simeon; Richard Bentley and Son Publishers, 1891
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786
...maternal grandfather, George, Elector of Hanover, was heir to Anne...in 1714. At the moment of Fredericks birth, the houses of Brandenburg and Hanover were overjoyed...already reigned, Frederick I. had not for one instant wearied...
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Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861
Book by David E. Barclay; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Frederick William--Iv--King Of Prussia--1795-1861, Monarchy--Germany--Prussia--History, Prussia (Germany)--History--Frederick William Iv, 1840-1861, Prussia (Germany)--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...even before the liberation war, Frederick William had succumbed to the enchantments of Romantic literature, from Ludwig...Huguenot refugies whom the Great Elector had invited to settle in the Mark Brandenburg after Louis XIVs revocation of...
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History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great - Vol. 1
Book by Thomas Carlyle; Harper & Brothers, 1866
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Prussia (Germany)--History
...CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT...VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW YORK...CONTENTS OF VOL. I...BOOK II. OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS...Jagenrdorf, Electors Uncle, is...to grant Brandenburg a crown...needful." Elector Friedrichs...high spirit of a Hohenzollern...Forster, i., 74 quoting...Brandenburg Electorate has become Kingdom of Prussia...head. Of Brandenburg, what it...CHAPTER I. BRANNIBOR...
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Music at the Court of Frederick the Great
Book by Ernest Eugene Helm; University of Oklahoma Press, 1960
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Music--Prussia (Germany)
...possession of the Polish...between Brandenburg and Prussia, Frederick made his...FIG. I. Flute etude by Frederick, from a book of flute exercises...21, 1754: I have listened...rehearsal of...78 Frederick the Great...
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journal articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 11 results

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Early Modern Military Reform and the Connection between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia
Journal article by Daniel Riches; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 77, 2005
Subjects: Germany--Military aspects, Military history--Evaluation, Sweden--Military aspects
...by von Dohna to the Elector in 1661 as a means...between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia. Other "military" members of the network worked...Vetenskapssamhallets i Uppsala Handlingar...Gothelf, Rodney. "Frederick William 1 and the...
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The "Fractio Panis:" a Reformed Communion Practice in Late Reformation Germany
Journal article by Bodo Nischan; Church History, Vol. 53, 1984
Subjects: Church History
...Germany. 8 Then I attempt to explain...controversial. The major point of reference will be Brandenburg in the early seventeenth...century. 1 In 1613 Elector John Sigismund of...Calvinism. Unlike Frederick of the Palatinate and...
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Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
Journal article by Margaret L. King; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Aries, Philippe--Works, Childhood--History, Social historians--Works
...1999), and in 1690 appeared the instruction in dialogue form of Justine Siegemund, court midwife to Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg (The Court Midwife, ed. Lynne Tatlock, 2005). A century later, the diary of New England midwife Martha...
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La Societa Dei Principi Nell' Europa Moderna (Secoli XVI-XVII)
Journal article by Christine Shaw; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, La societa dei principi nell' Europa moderna (secoli XVI-XVII) (Book)--Book reviews
...struggle of the Elector of Brandenburg in the sixteenth century...accepted as the peer of the other electoral princes is emphasized...consort of Duke Cosimo I of Florence, stresses...consort of the Emperor Frederick III, Caterina Sforza...
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The 30 Years' War: Graham Darby Examines the Nature and Effects of the War That Dominated the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Graham Darby; History Review, 2001
Subjects: Catholic Church--Military aspects, Germany--History, History--Study and teaching, Protestants--Military aspects, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Analysis, War--Religious aspects
...to obtain tax cuts, and some rulers (e.g. the Great Elector of Brandenburg) exaggerated the effects of the war to enhance their...I) THE BOHEMIAN AND PALATINE WAR 1618-23...
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magazine articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 7 results

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The Kingdom of Prussia Is Founded
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 51, January 2001
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia--Biography, Prussia--History
...efficient army and fortified Berlin. His son, the Elector Frederick III (1657-1713), was not a chip off the old...as a reward for aiding the Emperor Leopold I. There could not be a king of Brandenburg, which was part of the Empire, and there could...
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Prussia 1701 a European Affair
Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 51, May 2001
Subjects: Berlin, Germany--Historic sites, Exhibitions--Appreciation, Palaces--Exhibitions, Prussia--History
...All that happened in 1701 was that Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, husband of Sophie Charlotte, had himself crowned Frederick I, King in Prussia, in far-off Konigsberg (todays Kaliningrad...
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The Origins of Prussian Militarism
Magazine article by Peter H. Wilson; History Today, Vol. 51, May 2001
Subjects: Military history--Analysis, Prussia--18th century, Social sciences and history--Analysis
...Elector or ruler of Brandenburg in 1640, he inherited a collection of different provinces...By his death in 1688, Frederick William had faced off...history as the `Great Elector. His son and successor, Frederick I (1657-1713), would receive...
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Woman's Name Added to Reformation Tablet
Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 119, November 20, 2002
Subjects: Dentiere, Marie--Appreciation, Geneva, Switzerland, Monuments--Religious aspects
...and such political figures as Oliver Cromwell, leader of the Puritan Revolution in England; Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg; and William I, prince of Orange. --ENI
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Handel's Houses
Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 51, November 2001
Subjects: Composers--Biography, Halle, Germany--History, Handel, Georg Friedrich--Biography
...on February 23rd, 1685, a citizen of Brandenburg-Prussia and subject of its ruler, Frederick William `The Great Elector. Handel was baptised the next day...king. Did the new monarch, George I, resent his former employees truancy...
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newspaper articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 3 results

 
 
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Secrets of the Royal Mistress
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 7, 2004
Subjects: Parker Bowles, Camilla
...The sobbing girl cried, No, no, sire! I dont want to be a nun! King John V of Portugal didnt bother sending his dismissed...German monarchs followed suit. In the 1690s Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, appointed a beautiful noblewoman as his...
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Berlin Offers Too Much for One Sitting: Rivals New York as the City That Never Sleeps
Newspaper article by Richard Slusser; The Washington Times, November 13, 1999
Subjects: Berlin, Germany
...I dont know how long I must stay to really know...is nine times the size of Paris. Berlin has 170...at Pariserplatz by the Brandenburg Gate and continues east...the Huguenots arrived, Elector Friederich Wilhelm, a...1786 and was known as Frederick the Great in the English-speaking...
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Trouble in Paradise; Discovery of Sex and Shame: Adam and Eve, Left, Lack the Sometimes Grotesque Sensuality Common in Cranach's Nudes. above, a Young Stag, Symbol of the Resurrected Christ in the 16th Century Intrigue: The Garden of Eden, 1530, with Its Assembly of Animals and, in the Distance, the Tale of Adam and Eve from Creation to Expulsion
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 13, 2007
...Luthersenemy, Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, as one of his most constant andimportant...Professor Hans Singer; re-reading it, I realise that the pigeon-hole...Cranach in 1508 by the Saxon Elector, Frederick the Wise, flanked bythe 15 and...


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encyclopedia articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 16 results

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Frederick I , Elector of Brandenburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FREDERICK I , elector of Brandenburg 1371...granted (1411) Frederick a regency over Brandenburg and named him (1415) elector of Brandenburg...with the electoral dignity...recalcitrant nobles of Brandenburg, Frederick departed...
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Frederick William , Elector of Brandenburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...as the Great Elector, 1620 88, elector of Brandenburg (1640 88), son and successor of...and occupied by Swedish troops. Frederick William immediately negotiated...became king of Prussia as Frederick I. See biography by F. Schevill...
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Frederick I , King of Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FREDERICK I , king of Prussia 1657...Prussia (1701 13), elector of Brandenburg (1688 1713) as...succeeded his father, Frederick William the Great Elector, in Brandenburg. Through a renewed...Emperor Leopold I prior to the War of the Spanish...
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Maurice , Duke and Elector of Saxony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...of his cousin, Elector John Frederick I of Saxony, ruler of the Ernestine...of Muhlberg (1547) received the electorate and a portion of his cousins lands...battle against Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach...
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Brandenburg , State, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Brandenburg as electors of the Holy Roman...German king, Brandenburg went to his...transferred it to Frederick I of the house...His son, Elector Frederick III, in 1701...Frederick I . The later history of Brandenburg is that of...
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