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unusual facts about Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless



Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

title=Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|

Bielsko-Biała

From 1560 Bielsko was held by Frederick Casimir of Cieszyn, son of Duke Wenceslaus III Adam, who due to the enormous debts his son left upon his death in 1571, had to sell it to the Promnitz noble family at Pless.

Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

title=Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

title=Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
with George II (until 1509)
and Sigismund III (until 1487)

Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless

#Anna Emilie (Pless, 20 May 1770 – Fürstenstein, 1 February 1830), married on 21 May 1791 Hans Henry VI, Imperial Count of Hochberg and Freiherr of Fürstenstein (near Waldenburg in Lower Silesia).

#Christian Frederick (Schloss Pless, 14 November 1780 – Ebersdorf (killed in action), 30 August 1813).

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

title=Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

With him, the main line of Anhalt-Köthen became extinct, and he was succeeded by his uncle Frederick Ferdinand, a member of the Anhalt-Köthen-Pless branch.

Serene Highness

Other non-reigning princes of the German nobility, but not (always) their cadets (e.g. the Princes von Bismarck, Carolath-Beuthen, Pless, Wrede).

Stephen W. Pless

On January 16, 1969, four days before leaving office, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Pless the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony.

After his parents divorced, his mother Nancy Lassetter Pollard moved to Atlanta and remarried, to Berlin Pless.


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