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9 unusual facts about Margraviate of Brandenburg


Caroline Rudolphi

Born to a poor family in Magdeburg and growing up in Potsdam (Margraviate of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia), she was discovered by composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who in 1781 set to music and published a number of her poems.

Daniel Cramer

Daniel Cramer (Daniel Candidus) (20 January 1568 – 5 October 1637) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz), Brandenburg.

Dodo von Knyphausen

A government office to collect revenues in Brandenburg had been created in the 1650s, but it was not until Knyphausen's leadership in 1683 that this central revenues office achieved direct control over revenues from the various lands of the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns.

Faule Grete

Borrowed by Margrave Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1413, the cannon was instrumental in breaking the opposition of the domestic knighthood within three weeks, allowing Fredrick to lay the foundation for the rise of his Hohenzollern dynasty which later came to rule Prussia and the Deutsches Reich.

History of the Germans in Poland

Western Farther Pomerania broke its political ties with Poland in the second half of the 12th century and from 1231 became a fief of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which in 1307 extended its Pomeranian possessions even further east, taking over the Sławno and Słupsk areas.

Joachim Wasserschlebe

Joachim Wasserschlebe (1 May 1709, Salzwedel, Margraviate of Brandenburg - 13 March 1787, Wassersleben estates) was a German-Danish diplomat, politician, councillor, patron of the arts and art collector.

John George III, Elector of Saxony

After his accession as Elector, he reduced the size of the royal household and began with the establishment of a small standing army of 12,000 men, after the model of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and managed to extract from the states of the realm a commitment to contribute funds.

Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck

Knesebeck was born on the family estate Karwe, close to Neuruppin in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, as the son of an officer who had served under King Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War.

Paul Friedrich August Ascherson

In 1855, he received his doctorate for a dissertation about the flora of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.


Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania

Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstufen in 1231 put the Duchy of Pomerania under the suzerainty of the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg, disregarding the tenure of the Griffin dynasty, and thereby fueling the long-term Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict.

Berlin Cathedral

In that year Prince-Elector Frederick II Irontooth of Brandenburg moved with his residence from Brandenburg upon Havel to Cölln (today's Fishers' Island, the southern part of Museums Island) into the newly erected Berlin Schloss, which also housed a Catholic chapel.

County of Blankenburg

As of 1789, the Principality of Blankenburg was surrounded by (from the north clockwise): Brandenburg (County of Stolberg-Wernigerode and Principality of Halberstadt), Anhalt-Bernburg, Brandenburg (County of Hohnstein), and Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

False Waldemar

The False Waldemar, also known as the Wrong Woldemar († 1356 in Dessau) was an impostor who from 1348 to 1350 was invested with the Mark Brandenburg by Charles IV.

Henry II the Pious

The situation in the northwest was more complicated: Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg, using the death of Henry the Bearded as a pretext, took the important Greater Polish fortress at Santok and besieged Lubusz.

Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt

Possibly born in Altruppin, Brandenburg, Schultheiss was the son of Joachim Scultetus von Unfried, a privy councilor of Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg.

John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg

As his father then ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (from 1457 also as Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach), he was born at the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach in Franconia, where he spent his childhood years until in 1466 he received the call to Brandenburg as presumed heir by his uncle Elector Frederick II.

Lands of the Bohemian Crown

Beside their home County of Luxembourg itself, the dynasty held further non-contiguous Imperial fiefs in the Low Countries, such as the duchies of Brabant and Limburg, acquired through marriage by Charles' younger half-brother Wenceslaus of Luxembourg in 1355 as well as the Margraviate of Brandenburg purchased in 1373.

Margraviate of Landsberg

After Dietrich's son Frederick Tuta had died without issue in 1291, it was sold to the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg.

Mieszkowice

Founded in 1298 during the Ostsiedlung in Brandenburg, the town was the site of death of the last Ascanian margrave in 1319, a center of the Waldensians movement in the 14th century, and the site of the conclusion of a Franco-Swedish alliance during the Thirty Years' War, which else virtually depopulated the town.

Osiecko, Lubusz Voivodeship

The settlement was first mentioned as Magnum Oszec in a 1312 deed, when the area around Bledzew was temporarily under the rule of the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg in the west.

Ottavio Piccolomini

Despite his support for Wallenstein, he was not included in the list of promotions when the Duke resumed action against Saxony, Brandenburg, Sweden and France.

Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz

Heinrich XXIV was born in Trebschen in the March of Brandenburg, descendant of the Reuss-Köstritz line, the Younger Line, of the extended German noble family of Reuss.

Schönhausen Palace

In 1662 Countess Sophie Theodore, a scion of the Holland-Brederode family and wife of the Brandenburg general Christian Albert of Dohna, acquired the lands Niederschönhausen and Pankow, then far north of the Berlin city gates.

Schutzjude

Within the Holy Roman Empire, except some eastern territories gained by the Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries (e.g. Brandenburg), Jews usually had the status of Servi camerae regis.

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Also, Sigismund granted control of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (which he had received back after Jobst's death) to Frederick I of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg (1415).

Skwierzyna

The colonization of the area was largely implemented by the Cistercian monks of nearby Paradyż Abbey, a filial monastery of Lehnin Abbey in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Slavery in the British Virgin Islands

In 1690 the Brandenburgers built slave pens on Peter Island, however, they later abandoned them in favour of an agreement with the Danes to set up a trading outpost on St. Thomas.

Treaty of Arnswalde

The Treaty of Arnswalde was signed on 1 April 1269 between three Brandenburgian margraves, the Ascanians John II, Otto IV and Conrad, and Duke Mestwin II of Pomerelia (Mściwój II) in Arnswalde (then a fortified place in the Brandenburgian New March, now Choszczno, Poland).

Treaty of Kremmen

The Treaty of Kremmen was signed on June 20, 1236 by Duke Wartislaw III of Pomerania, recognizing the seigniory of the Brandenburg margraves over his Duchy of Pomerania-Demmin, and ceding the terrae Stargard, Wustrow and Beseritz to Brandenburg.


see also

Bishopric of Eichstätt

The main part was bordered by Bavaria in the north, east, and south, and by the Lordship of Pappenheim and the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the west.

Coat of arms of Berlin

Most likely they were thinking of Albrecht I, nicknamed "the bear", who is considered to have been the conqueror and founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

He took over in 1603, the government of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, after the old line of Franconian Hohenzollerns died out with the death of George Fredrick the Elder of the Ansbach-Jägerndorf branch.

Joachim Frederick

Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546–1608), Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg

Margaret of Baden

Margaret died in Ansbach in 1457 shortly after her husband acquired the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.