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unusual facts about Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal



Agnes of Bavaria

Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Stendal (1276-1345), a daughter of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria

Alexander von Knobelsdorff

Alexander Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (13 May 1723, Cunow near Crossen - 10 December 1799, Stendal) was a Prussian field marshal.

Barons Court tube station

Many people mistakenly believe that name Barons Court is inspired by Earls Court to the east and the association of the area in the early 19th century with the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1806) and his English wife Elizabeth (the Margravine, the widow of the 6th Baron Craven).

Beatrice of Brandenburg

She was the second daughter of Otto V the Long, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel, by his wife Judith of Henneberg, daughter of Count Herman I of Henneberg and heiress of Coburg and Schmalkalden.

Bellingen

Bellingen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Bayreuth, 6 August 1644 – Erlangen, 20 May 1712) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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).

Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia

Since he had no male heirs, his territory passed to his cousin Theodoric I, who had been appointed Margrave of Meissen when the March of Meissen was reinstated by Emperor Otto IV in 1198.

Focke-Wulf Ta 152

An early Ta 152 combat occurred on 14 April 1945 when Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke tried to intercept a De Havilland Mosquito over Stendal, but failed to catch up due to engine trouble.

Foligno Cathedral

A new epoch of harmony was expected to begin between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire, as Pope Innocent III had just recognized Otto of Brunswick as Emperor Otto IV of the Holy Roman Empire.

Garz

Groß Garz ("Great Garz") — a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt.

Golden Bull of Sicily

In September 1198 Frederick's younger half-brother Ottokar I made use of the rivalry among Otto IV from the House of Welf and the Hohenstaufen duke Philip of Swabia, youngest son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who both had been elected King of the Romans.

Heinersdorf

It was first mentioned in a 1319 document when it was sold by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg to the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Berlin.

Helena of Denmark

After the early death of her husband, Duke William, in 1213, her brother Emperor Otto IV took over the reign of Lüneburg, as regent for William's son Otto the Child.

Holzhausen

Holzhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt

Ian Stendal

In the early 1930s, Stendal was a student at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, where he took classes with Paul Tillich and Theodor Adorno.

Jerichow

The city of Jerichow lies on an ancient branch of the Elbe River between Stendal and Genthin, 31 miles ( 50 kilometers ) northeast of Magdeburg.

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.

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.

John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

The deed was issued on the castle at Werbellin, a village in the Schorfheide area to the west of the monastery.

King Otto

Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, (1175 or 1176 – 1218), one of two rival kings of the Holy Roman Empire

Leo August Pochhammer

Leo August Pochhammer (25 August 1841, Stendal – 24 March 1920, Kiel) was a Prussian mathematician who was educated in Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1863 under Ernst Kummer.

Losse

Losse, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Germany

Magdeburg-Wittenberge railway

The town of Stendal, which had no rail connection, sought a continuation of the line from Potsdam via Genthin and Stendal to Hamburg.

Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company

In 1867, it obtained the concession for the construction of a line from Berlin via Stendal to Lehrte, known as the Lehrter Bahn (Lehrte Railway).

Max Koffler

After the Fall of the Wall his family moved from Berlin to Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt where he founded his first band Kerosin together with his brother Hanno Koffler in 1994.

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.

Otto III, Count of Rietberg

Otto IV (died 1553), married on 1 February 1541 Countess Palatine Catherine of the Rhine, died childless

Otto IV, Count of Rietberg

This led to many disputes between Otto IV and his half-brother John II from their father's second marriage.

Count Otto IV of Rietberg (d. 5 or 6 January 1553 outside Metz) was Count of Rietberg from 1535 until his death.

Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry of Northeim, Margrave of Frisia

Otto was defeated and wounded in battle by Philip on July 27, 1206, near Wassenberg, and as a consequence also lost the support of the pope, who began to favour the apparent winner in the conflict.

Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

However, the Lords of Querfurt, who were Burgraves of Magdeburg, also fielded a candidate.

Richardis of Jülich

She married Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, son of Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria, with whom she had one child: Albert of Wittelsbach, who was born in 1332.

Rolf Herricht

After completion, he went to appear on the stages of theaters in Salzwedel, Stendal, Staßfurt, Güstrow and also in the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt am Oder.

Rossau

Rossau, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Sicard of Cremona

In 1205 Sicardo returned to Cremona where he supported Frederick II against the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV of Braunschweig.

Stefan Lehmann

with Andreas E. Furtwängler (ed.s): Alexander der Große – einst in Stendal: Original – Kopie – Fälschung? Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-29-9 (Kataloge und Schriften des Archäologischen Museums der Martin-Luther-Universität. Band 2).

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

Stendal, Indiana

Much of his IHSAA success came at Winslow, coaching fellow Hall of Famer, Dick Farley.

Tempelhof

After Pope Clement V officially abolished the Order of the Temple in 1312, the knights of Saint John (the Johanniter), backed by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, took over the villages of Tempelhof, Mariendorf, and Marienfelde.

Theodoric IV, Landgrave of Lusatia

In 1301 Archbishop Burchard II of Magdeburg sold Theodoric the castles in Droyßig and Burgwerben for 2000 marks of Stendal silver, with the option to buy them back later.

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).

Wust

Wust, Saxony-Anhalt, a village in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Wust-Fischbeck, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


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