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unusual facts about Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach



3rd Royal Bavarian Division

The division was headquartered in Nuremberg from 1815 to 1843, in Ansbach from 1843 to 1848, and then again in Nuremberg until 1901, when after the renumbering of divisions, it became the 3rd Division in Landau and the division in Nuremberg became the 5th Division.

Adalbert von Ladenberg

Adalbert von Ladenberg (born 18 February 1798 in Ansbach; died 15 February 1855) was a Prussian politician.

Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia

Sophia of Poland (1464-1512)

Albert II of Brunswick-Lüneburg

During the interregnum between the death of Albert I and the confirmation of Albert II, the cathedral chapter had a conflict with Anhalt about the principality of Aschersleben and, almost simultaneously, a feud broke out between the chapter and Counts Albert II and Bernard of Regenstein, who were the patrons of the city of Quedlinburg.

Albert II, Duke of Austria

Two years later, King Philip VI of France 1337 asked him for help against Emperor Louis and King Edward III of England.

Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Born in Ansbach, Albert was the second son of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1582–1625) and his wife Sophie (1594–1651), daughter of John George, Count of Solms-Laubach.

Albert II or V of Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 September 1620 – 22 October 1667) was a German prince, who was Margrave of Ansbach from 1634 until his death.

Albert of Monaco

Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958), son of Prince Rainier III, and the current reigning Prince of Monaco since April 6, 2005

Albert, Duke in Prussia

A member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, Albert's election as Grand Master had brought about hopes of a reversal of the declining fortune of the Teutonic Knights.

Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg

Frederick I (1460–1536), Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Barbara of Brandenburg

She was born in Ansbach as the tenth of the nineteen children of Albrecht III Achilles, Margrave and since 1471 Elector of Brandenburg; however she was the fourth child born from his second marriage to Anna of Saxony.

Bernhard Joachim Hagen

Bernhard Joachim Hagen (April 1720 in or near Hamburg (?) – December 9, 1787 in Ansbach) was a German composer, violinist and lutenist.

Bridgette Radebe

On 1–2 July 2011, Radebe played an assisting role in the wedding ceremony of Prince Albert II of Monaco and the former Charlene Wittstock.

Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Because his brother George the Pious also joined, Casimir returned to appoint a stadtholder for their Franconian possessions and to raise additional troops.

He was born in Ansbach, as the son of Frederick I and his wife Princess Sofia, a daughter of Kazimierz IV Jagiellon.

Catherine of Austria, Lady of Coucy

When Catherine was six years of age, her father died; Catherine and four-year-old Agnes were placed under the guardianship of their paternal uncles, Frederick the Fair and Albert II, Duke of Austria.

Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Cölln, 30 January 1581 – Bayreuth, 30 May 1655) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (later renamed Brandenburg-Bayreuth).

Descendants of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

The Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt connection also provides the descent of Albert II, Prince of Monaco from Isabella I and Ferdinand II.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg

Elizabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach (29 November 1451, Ansbach – 28 March 1524, Nürtingen) was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Württemberg.

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (1828–1901) was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach, Bavaria.

Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Johann, Viceroy of Valencia
Frederick
William, Archbishop of Riga
John Albert, Archbishop of Magdeburg
Frederick Albert
Gumprecht
Elisabeth
Margaret
Sofie, Duchess of Legnica
Anna, Duchess of Cieszyn
Barbara
Elisabeth, Margravine of Baden-Durlach
Barbara, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg

Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1 May 1616, Ansbach – 6 September 1634, Nördlingen) was a German nobleman.

Frederick V

Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460–1536), or Friedrich V, Margrave von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth

George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Schloss Weferlingen had been assigned to his family as an appanage by King Frederick I of Prussia, after George Frederick Charles's heavily indebted father had renounced his succession rights to the Franconian Hohenzollern estates of Bayreuth and Ansbach in favour of Prussia in the Contract of Schönberg.

George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

He was killed at the Battle of Kittensee in 1703, and as he was unmarried, Ansbach passed to his younger half-brother William Frederick.

George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

George Frederick reigned in his native Ansbach, Franconia and Jägerndorf, Upper Silesia since 1556 and, after the death of his cousin Albert Alcibiades in 1557, also in Kulmbach.

George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sabina, Electress of Brandenburg
Sophie, Duchess of Legnica
Barbara
Dorothy Catherine, Burgravine of Meissen
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Heidenheim, Bavaria

After that, Heidenheim belonged to the Margrave of Ansbach.

Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht

Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (8. April 1722 in Ulm - 11 August 1794 in Ansbach) was a German composer, flutists and Kapellmeister.

Johann Georg Pisendel

At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach.

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

Johann Kusser

Kusser was then employed at the princely courts in Baden-Baden and Ansbach, before in October 1683 taking a trip to Germany.

John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

#Margrave George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (3 May 1678 – 29 March 1703) died unmarried.

#Margrave William Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (8 January 1686 – 7 January 1723) married Duchess Christiane Charlotte of Württemberg, daughter of Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental and had issue.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Nevertheless Emperor Louis IV in the same year secretly promised the Carinthian duchy including the March of Carniola and large parts of Tyrol to the Austrian dukes Albert II and Otto the Merry from the House of Habsburg.

John James Maximilian Oertel

John James Maximilian Oertel (born at Ansbach, Bavaria, 27 April 1811; died at Jamaica, New York, 21 August 1882) was a German-American journalist.

Karl Altmann

Altmann, son of Joseph Altmann, was born in Feuchtwangen and grew up in Ansbach.

Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein

Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein (1 October 1770, Schalkhausen near Ansbach - 14 May 1840, Berlin) was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian culture minister.

Ludwig Förster

Ludwig Christian Friedrich (von) Förster (October 8, 1797, Ansbach - June 16, 1863, Bad Gleichenberg, Steiermark) was a German-born Austrian architect.

Reichsbahndirektion Nürnberg

WürzburgAnsbach – (Treuchtlingen) – (Augsburg/Ingolstadt – Munich)

Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sabina was the daughter of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543) from his second marriage to Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels (1508–1531), daughter of the Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels.

Siegmund, Margrave of Bayreuth

On the death of his father on 11 March 1486, his elder brothers Johann Cicero and Friedrich succeeded to Brandenburg and Ansbach respectively, and Siegmund succeeded to Bayreuth.

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

# Barbara (24 September 1495, Ansbach–23 September 1552), married in Plassenburg 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.

Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach (23 March 1535, Ansbach – 22 February 1587, Legnica) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and by marriage Duchess of Legnica.

Treaty of Teschen

However, one of the requirements was that Austria would recognize the Prussian claims to the Franconian margraviates of Ansbach and Bayreuth, ruled in personal union by Margrave Christian Alexander from the House of Hohenzollern.

Upper Jagst Railway

However, these plans were rejected for the much shorter route via Crailsheim and Ansbach (the Nuremberg–Crailsheim railway).

William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (8 January 1686 – 7 January 1723), was Margrave of the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1703 until his death in 1723.

Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

He was the son of Kraft III of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (14 November 1582, Langenburg - 11 September 1641, Regensburg) and Sophie of Birkenfeld (29 March 1593, Ansbach - 16 November 1676, Neuenstein).

Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

First, in 1861 construction started on a nearly 90 kilometre-long link between Würzburg and Ansbach station, where it connected with a line that had been built in 1859 by the town of Ansbach to connect with the Ludwig South-North Railway in Gunzenhausen.


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