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- Thereafter Ansbach was held by cadet branches of the House of Hohenzollern, and its rulers were commonly called Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach. On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia.
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On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The Margrave was middle-aged and childless, and Frederick William was his kinsman as the head of the House of Hohenzollern.
1769–1791: Charles Alexander (also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach) On 2 December 1791, Charles Alexander sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia.
Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander (‹See Tfd› German: Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander; 24 February 1736 – 5 January 1806) was the last margrave of the two Franconian principalities, Bayreuth and Ansbach, [a] which he sold to the King of Prussia, a fellow member of the House of Hohenzollern.
On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The Margrave was middle-aged and childless, and Frederick William was his kinsman as the head of the House of Hohenzollern.
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The junior Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern was founded by Frederick IV, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Ruling the minor German principalities of Hechingen, Sigmaringen and Haigerloch, this branch of the family decided to remain Roman Catholicand from 1567 onwards split into the Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-H...
The princes of the House of Hohenzollern earned a reputation for their military prowess.Frederick William I (1713-1740), the "Soldier King," created Prussia's standing army, which was among the largest and best in Europe. Prussia has been described as not so much a country with an army, but an army with a country. The Hohenzollern princes believed ...
Dwork, Deborah, and R.J. van Pelt. 1996. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present. New York, NY: Norton. ISBN 9780393039337.Ludwig, Emil, and Ethel Colburn Mayne. 1927. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 9780404040673.Nelson, Walter Henry. 1971. The Soldier Kings: The House of Hohenzollern. London, UK: Dent. ISBN 9780460039970.Nischan, Bodo. 1994. Prince, People, and Confession: The Second Reformation in Brandenburg. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812232424.Örjan Martinsson. Ansbach and Bayreuth. The predecessor to the margraviates of Ansbach and Bayreuth was the burgraviate of Nuremburg, which was first mentioned 1105. It became through marriage a possession of the house of Hohenzollern about 1192.
history. The purpose of this project is to display a list of all ruling members of the house of Hohenzollern. Region of Zollern, Nuremberg, Ansbach, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, (Franconia and Bavaria, Germany) Counts of Zollern - 1061. Burkhard I - 1061. Frederick I 1061 - 1125 (son of Burhard) Frederick II 1125 - 1145 (son of Frederick I)
