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unusual facts about John George


John George, Elector of Brandenburg

Upon the death of his kinsman Albert I, Duke of Prussia in 1568, the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by the latter's underage son Albert Frederick.


Ballingry

Singer-songwriter and filmmaker Richard Jobson, footballer Doug Rougvie and actor Michael Nardone are from the town, as was John George, a miner who became a Unionist MP.

Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

He ruled as margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1603 to 1625, succeeding his father John George and succeeded by his son Frederick III.


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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.

Augustus Stephen Vogt

Born in Washington, Oxford County, Canada West, Province of Canada, the son of German immigrant John George Vogt and Swiss immigrant Marianna Zingg, Vogt grew up in Elmira, Ontario.

Bucks of America

Governor John Hancock and his son, John George Washington Hancock, presented the company with a white silk flag, featuring a leaping buck and a pine tree, the symbol of New England.

Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

According to the will of John George I, Christian received Merseburg and the cities of Bad Lauchstädt, Schkeuditz, Lützen, and Zwenkauand with their castles, half of the towns of Brehna, Zörbig, and Finsterwalde, and the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia, including the towns and castles of Lübben, Dobrilugk, Finsterwalde, Guben, Luckau, Calau, and Spremberg; this settlement created the Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg with Christian as its ruler.

Far-left politics

In the United States, John George and Laird Wilcox have identified the Communist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society and Progressive Labor Party as some of the groups active on what he refers to as the "far-left".

House Treaty of Gera

John George, however, had stipulated his will that part of the Neumark and Krosno Odrzańskie should be separated from the Mark and given to his two younger sons.

Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge

The United Kingdom's National Portrait Gallery holds the following portrait featuring Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge as a sitter: Exhibit number P528: John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge and Frances Annesley (née Lonsdale), Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda.

John George Adami

John George Adami (ä-dä' mee), M.A., M.D., F.R.S., LL.D.

John George Gough

John George Gough senior was christened in 1807 at West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, and English census returns of his twin brother William show that he was born at the nearby hamlet of Littleton-Pannell.

John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Heidelberg on 21 February 1595 John George married for a second time to Dorothea (b. Kaiserslautern, 6 January 1581 – d. Sandersleben, 18 September 1631), the only surviving child of John Casimir of Simmern, third son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Groningen on 9 September 1659 John George married Henriette Katharina (b. The Hague, 10 February 1637 – d. Schloss Oranienbaum, 3 November 1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (17 November 1627 – 7 August 1693) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau from 1660 to 1693.

John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham

John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham KG, GCVO, PC (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928), known as Viscount Lambton until 1879, was a British peer.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

#Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau).

Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

#John George (b. Bernburg, 14 February 1674 - killed in battle at Leuze, 9 September 1691).