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unusual facts about Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt



Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau

#Johanna Charlotte (Dessau, 6 April 1682 - d. Herford, 31 March 1750), Abbess of Herford (1729–1750); married on 25 January 1699 to Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick married on 2 March 1746 at Schwedt to Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg, daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg, and his wife Margravine Henriette Marie of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Gustav Fabergé

Pierre had moved there by 1800 from the German city of Schwedt am Oder.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father.

Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt

His name is mentioned on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on the centerline of Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Margravine Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt

From 1769 she lived at Montbéliard, which was being managed by her husband, but which had to be abandoned in 1792 because of the French Revolution.

Marie Amalie of Brandenburg

Maria Amalia of Brandenburg-Schwedt (26 November 1670 in Cölln – 17 November 1739 at Bertholdsburg Castle in Schleusingen) was a princess from the Brandenburg-Schwedt line of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage a Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz.

Philip William

Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669 – 1711), Prussian Prince, governor of Magdeburg

Prince Augustus of Prussia

Born at Friedrichsfelde, he was the youngest son of Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, the brother of King Frederick the Great, and Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Schwedt

Britta Steffen – Freestyle swimmer - a current holder of the world record in women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle.

In the course of the Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict, the Brandenburg margrave Louis II the Roman ceded it to Duke Barnim III of Pomerania in 1354.


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