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  - 284 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
...Grand Alliance. Brandenburg received no territorial...enough, the Elector was additionally...Romans. For Frederick III there was...Swedish Empire. Frederick was confident that Brandenburg-Prussias pivotal...Seeing that I possess everything...
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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
...King; he was also Elector of Brandenburg. Frederick was not only heir to...but it could not, as Frederick William very well knew...scruples, fortified Frederick William against extreme...by violent words. I would not go so far...
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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
...Of Swedish Pommern the Elector might now say, "Surely...had come, and only the Elector of Brandenburg was still in harness...they invaded you: can I leave them in such a pass...this time; and you, I again bid you, return...
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History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great - Vol. 6
Book by Thomas Carlyle; Harper & Brothers, 1866
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Prussia (Germany)--History--Frederick Ii, 1740-1786
...Otto, Duke of Meran, slain, i. 95 . Otto III., Elector of Brandenburg, i. 89 . Otto III., last of...Stettin, Duke, Burial of, i. 163 . Otto, last Bavarian Elector of Brandenburg, i. 131 .
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History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great - Vol. 2
Book by Thomas Carlyle; Harper & Brothers, 1866
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Prussia (Germany)--History
...i. 33 ; ii. 6 ; his death, 58 . Ostend East India Company, Karl VI.s, i. 423 . Otto, Duke of Meran, slain, i. 95 . Otto III., Elector of Brandenburg, i. 89 . Otto III., last of "Saxon Kaisers," i. 60 , 63 . Otto of Stettin...
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journal articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 12 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
...Dohna to the Elector in 1661 as a...between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia was...Dutch practice to Brandenburg-Prussia reminds...Vetenskapssamhallets i Uppsala Handlingar...Frost, Robert I. The Northern...Aufstand und brandenburg-prcessischem...Rodney. "Frederick William 1 and...
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"Ready to Lay Down His Person and Fortune at Her Feet": Prince Boguslaw Radziwill's Proposal for Marriage with Mary Stuart, Princess Royal of England and Princess of Orange in 1653-1654
Journal article by Andrew B. Pernal; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Domestic service, Marriage, Widows & widowers
...some means, i.e., financial...Poland,"-i.e., the...distant cousin Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, about this...the Great Elector.17 No other...princes and electors to agree...support of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and thus...
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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
...by Volker Hunecke (I trovatelli di Milano...Leon Battista Alberti (I libri della famiglia...Siegemund, court midwife to Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg (The Court Midwife...Montaigne learned "while I was nursing and before...
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The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation*
Journal article by Paul F. Grendler; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Renaissance--Influence, Universities and colleges--Europe, Universities and colleges--Influence, Universities and colleges--Management, Universities and colleges--Study and teaching
...elites: I Gesuiti e Ranuccio I Farnese." In Universita, Principe...Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie. Cambridge, 1985...Confession: The Second Reformation in Brandenburg. Philadelphia, 1994. Nutton...Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie, 79-99, 298...
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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
...Calvinists. So he opposed Frederick of the Palatinate...a Protestant revolt Frederick had challenged what...e.g. the Great Elector of Brandenburg) exaggerated the effects...beat 25,000 TIMELINE I) THE BOHEMIAN AND PALATINE...
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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
...Brandenburg became Electors of the Holy...formidable Frederick William of Brandenburg, known as the Great Elector, who ruled...1688, made Brandenburg-Prussia...the Elector Frederick III (1657...Emperor Leopold I. 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
...the young wife of the Elector of Brandenburg -- near enough to...brother became George I of England, and in...anniversary of `Prussia. I have to word that carefully...happened in 1701 was that Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, husband of Sophie...
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Africans Became Christians Long before Europeans
Magazine article; New African, October 2008
Subjects: Black History Month--2008 AD
...refutation: "As far as I can judge, there is...reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely...Greatness of Soul:" "I consider an human soul...Residence of the Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, only to learn with...
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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
...Dutch border. When Frederick William (1620-88) became Elector or ruler of Brandenburg in 1640, he inherited...death in 1688, Frederick William had faced...successor, Frederick I (1657-1713...feudal heartlands of Brandenburg and Pomerania...
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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
...electorate of Brandenburg. Dr Handel got...rising state of Brandenburg, to be ruled...a citizen of Brandenburg-Prussia and...of its ruler, Frederick William `The Great Elector. Handel was...monarch, George I, resent his...
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Secrets of the Royal Mistress
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 7, 2004
Subjects: Parker Bowles, Camilla
...you are grown rich, I believe, by your dress...entirely right, madam. And I am whore enough to be...cried, No, no, sire! I dont want to be a nun...followed suit. In the 1690s Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, appointed a beautiful...
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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
...outliving both? I suspect that most...tothree successive Electors of Saxony, had become...Wittenberg, Lucas I ventured only as...Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, as one of his most...re-reading it, I realise that the...1508 by the Saxon Elector, Frederick the Wise, flanked...
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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
...the west of the Brandenburg Gate, the main...Huguenots arrived, Elector Friederich Wilhelm...and was known as Frederick the Great in the...Berliners. It was Frederick the Great who turned...is the capital of Brandenburg. Potsdam is the...thinking it meant "I am a Berliner...
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Handel with Care; Why Did the Irascible Musical Genius Premiere His Masterpiece Messiah on Dublin's Fishamble Street 268 Years Ago Today?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 13, 2010
...to the Royal Court of Brandenburg where they lived. Georg...play the organ before Frederick I, King of Prussia. His...entertainment for the Elector, later to become George I of England. The Electors mother wrote excitedly...


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encyclopedia articles on: Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg  - 17 results

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Frederick I , Elector of Brandenburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...
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Frederick William , Elector of Brandenburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FREDERICK WILLIAM , elector of Brandenburg known as the Great Elector...1620 88, elector of Brandenburg (1640 88), son and...by Swedish troops. Frederick William immediately...Prussia as Frederick I. See biography by F...
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Brandenburg , State, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Brandenburg as electors of the Holy...German king, Brandenburg went to his...transferred it to Frederick I of the house...cent. the electors of Brandenburg...the Great Elector (reigned...Elector Frederick III, in...Prussia" as Frederick I . The later history of Brandenburg is that of...
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Maurice , Duke and Elector of Saxony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAURICE , duke and elector of Saxony 1521 53, duke (1541 47) and elector (1547 53) of Saxony...title of his cousin, Elector John Frederick I of Saxony, ruler of...Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach...
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Electors
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELECTORS in the history...of Maximilian I , however, an...after the death of Frederick II in 1250, contests...the margrave of Brandenburg. The Golden Bull...order to punish Frederick the Winter King...Emperor Napoleon I of France radically...
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