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Christian Augustus, Count Palatine Of Sulzbach
Christian Augustus (German: Christian August) (26 July 1622 – 23 April 1708) was the Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1632 until 1708. Life Christian Augustus was born in Sulzbach in 1622 as the eldest son of Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and Hedwig of Holstein-Gottorp. He succeeded his father in August 1632, at the age of 10. Christian Augustus was a tolerant ruler. He granted his citizens the right to choose their Christian denomination and introduced the Simultaneum, whereby churches had both Protestant and Catholic services. In 1666 he permitted Jews to settle in the Duchy of Sulzbach and, due to his interest in mysticism and the Kabbalah, allowed a Hebrew print-shop. Under his rule, Sulzbach also became an intellectual center and the site of a regionally significant printing industry. Christian had a close relationship with his granddaughter Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, wife of Louis William of Baden-Baden and Regent of her son's dominions. Christian Augustus d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Palatine Of Sulzbach
Palatinate-Sulzbach was the name of two separate states of the Holy Roman Empire located in modern Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria, Germany, ruled by a branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Palatinate-Sulzbach (1569–1604) Palatinate-Sulzbach was partitioned from Palatinate-Zweibrücken upon the death of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken in 1569. His will provided that Palatinate-Sulzbach should be created out of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and ruled by his younger son Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Otto Henry. Otto Henry died in 1604 without any heirs so Palatinate-Sulzbach passed to Palatinate-Neuburg. Palatinate-Sulzbach (1614–1742) In 1614, Palatinate-Sulzbach was partitioned from Palatinate-Neuburg following the death of Count Palatine Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Philip Louis for his son Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Augustus. It consisted of two noncontiguous areas separated by the Electorate of Bavaria. It was bordered on the west b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis William, Margrave Of Baden-Baden
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (; 8 April 1655 – 4 January 1707) was the ruling Margrave of Baden-Baden in Germany, chief commander of the Imperial army and Reichsgeneralfeldmarschall of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also known as ''Türkenlouis'' ("Turkish Louis") for his numerous victories against Ottoman forces. After his death in 1707, his wife, Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, acted as regent of Baden-Baden during the minority of his eldest son, who succeeded him as Margrave of Baden-Baden. Family Born in Paris, Louis was a son of Hereditary Prince Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden-Baden and his French wife, Louise of Savoy. His godfather was Louis XIV of France. His father was the elder son of Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden, whom he pre-deceased, leaving Louis to succeed as reigning Margrave of Baden-Baden and head of the Catholic branch of the House of Zähringen. His mother's brother was the Count of Soissons, father of the renowned general Prince Eugene of Savoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1708 Deaths
In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–June * January 1 – Charles XII of Sweden invades Russia, by crossing the frozen Vistula River with 40,000 men. * January 7 – Bashkir rebels Siege of Yelabuga (1708), besiege Yelabuga. * January 12 – Shahu I becomes the fifth Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy, Maratha Empire in the Indian subcontinent. * February 26 – HMS Falmouth (1708), HMS ''Falmouth'', a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built at Woolwich Dockyard for the British Royal Navy, is launched. * March 11 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. * March 23 – James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne of Great Britain, unsuccessfully tries to land from a French fleet in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1622 Births
Events January–May * January 7 – The Holy Roman Empire and Transylvania sign the Peace of Nikolsburg. * February 8 – King James I of England dissolves the Parliament of England, English Parliament. * March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Ávila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized by Pope Gregory XV. * March 22 – Indian massacre of 1622, Jamestown massacre: Algonquian peoples, Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (one third of the colony's population), and burn the Henricus settlement. This begins the American Indian Wars. April–June * April 22 – Hormuz Island, Hormuz is Capture of Ormuz (1622), captured from the Portuguese, by an Anglo-Persian force. * April 27 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Mingolsheim, Skirmish at Mingolsheim: Protestant forces under Ernst von Mansfeld, Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Georg Friedrich o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landgravine Maria Eleonore Of Hesse-Rotenburg
Princess Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg (Maria Eleonore Amalia; 15 September 1675 – 27 January 1720) was Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg by birth and was the Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by marriage. Biography Maria Eleonore was the second child of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. She was an older sister of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg, future ruler of her native Hesse-Rotenburg. Engaged to Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach, the heir of the ruling Count Palatine of Sulzbach Christian Augustus, the couple were married on 9 June 1692 in Lobositz, Bohemia. The couple had some nine children three of which would have further progeny. Princess Maria Eleonore died in Sulzbach at the age of 44. Issue #Countess Palatine Amalia Auguste Maria Anna of Sulzbach (7 June 1693 – 18 January 1762) died unmarried. # Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (2 November 1694 – 18 July 1729) marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalie Of Palatinate-Sulzbach (1651 - 1721) , capital of the territory
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Amalie may refer to: * Amalie (given name), a female given name, derived from Amalia * Amalie Arena, a hockey stadium in Tampa, Florida * Amalie Oil Company, American motor oil producer See also * * Amélie (other) * Amalia (other) * AmaLee (born 1992), U.S. singer and voice actress * Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie ( ; ), located in Saint Thomas, is the historical capital and largest town of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located on the island's southern shore at the head of Charlotte Amalie Harbor. The town is known for its histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxe-Lauenburg
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (, ), was a ''reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296 to 1803 and again from 1814 to 1876 in the extreme southeast region of what is now Schleswig-Holstein. Its territorial centre was in the modern district of Herzogtum Lauenburg and originally its eponymous capital was Lauenburg upon Elbe, though the capital moved to Ratzeburg in 1619. Former territories not part of today's district of Lauenburg In addition to the core territories in the modern district of Lauenburg, other territories, mostly south of the river Elbe, occasionally belonged to the duchy: * The tract of land along the southern Elbe bank (), reaching from Marschacht to the ''Amt Neuhaus'', territorially connecting the core of the duchy with these more southeastern Lauenburgian areas. This land was ceded to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814. It is now part of the Lower Saxon Harburg (district). * The Amt Neuhaus proper, then including areas on both sides of the Elbe, which was cede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Francis Of Saxe-Lauenburg
Julius Francis (16 September 1641 – 30 September 1689) was duke of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1666 and 1689. He was a son of Duke Julius Henry and his third wife Anna Magdalena of Lobkowicz (1606–1668), daughter of Baron William ''the Younger'' Popel of Lobkowicz. He was officially known as ''Julius Franz von Sachsen, Engern und Westfalen''. Life His father Julius Henry had acquired sprawling estates around and a castle in Ploschkowitz (Ploskovice) and Schlackenwerth (Ostrov), Kingdom of Bohemia. Julius Francis had inherited more estates from his Bohemian mother, which is why the dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg had been adopted into the Bohemian nobility, however, not as imperially immediate aristocrats, as in their homeland. Having no sons Julius Francis provided for the legal grounds of female succession in Saxe-Lauenburg. With his death, the Lauenburg line of the House of Ascania was extinct in the male line. So Julius Francis' two daughters Anna Maria Franziska and Sibylle fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John VII, Count Of Nassau-Siegen
Count John VII the Middle of Nassau-Siegen (7 June 1561 – 27 September 1623), , official titles: ''Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein'', was since 1606 Count of Nassau-Siegen, a part of the County of Nassau, and the progenitor of the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the House of Nassau#The Ottonian Line, Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau. John was one of the most important military theorists of his time,Glawischnig (1974). who introduced many innovations and inventions. His ''Kriegsbuch'' contained all the military knowledge of his time, but also many new ideas, which made an essential contribution to the reform of the Dutch States Army by his cousin Maurice, Prince of Orange, Maurice.Lück (1981), p. 94. John served in the Dutch States Army,Dek (1970), p. 86.Dek (1968), p. 234.Blok (1911), p. 1221. was colonel general of the Electoral Palatinate, PalatinateLück (1981), p. 95. and commander-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau-Siegen
Nassau-Siegen was a principality within the Holy Roman Empire that existed between 1303 and 1328, and again from 1606 to 1743. From 1626 to 1734, it was subdivided into Catholic and Protestant parts. Its capital was the city of Siegen, founded in 1224 and initially a condominium (international law), condominium jointly owned by the Electorate of Cologne, archbishopric of Cologne and County of Nassau, Nassau. It was located some 50 km east of Cologne, and it contained the modern localities of Freudenberg, Westphalia, Freudenberg, Hilchenbach, Kreuztal, Siegen, and Wilnsdorf. First Nassau-Siegen (1303–1328) Nassau-Siegen was first created when the sons of Otto I, Count of Nassau, Otto I divided their inheritance: * Henry I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Henry received Nassau-Siegen * Emicho I, Count of Nassau-Hadamar, Emicho received Nassau-Hadamar * John, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, John received Nassau-Dillenburg John died childless in 1328 and Henry inherited Nassau-Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalie Of Nassau-Dillenburg , capital of the territory
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Amalie may refer to: * Amalie (given name), a female given name, derived from Amalia * Amalie Arena, a hockey stadium in Tampa, Florida * Amalie Oil Company, American motor oil producer See also * * Amélie (other) * Amalia (other) * AmaLee (born 1992), U.S. singer and voice actress * Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie ( ; ), located in Saint Thomas, is the historical capital and largest town of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located on the island's southern shore at the head of Charlotte Amalie Harbor. The town is known for its histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis George, Margrave Of Baden-Baden
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (; 7 June 1702 – 22 October 1761) was a German nobleman and the Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death in 1761. From 1707 to 1727, his mother Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg was the regent of Baden-Baden. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Augustus George. He was nicknamed ''Jägerlouis'' (the "hunter Louis") because of his passion for hunting. Biography He was born at the Ettlingen Palace and was the son of Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg. Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden from birth, at the death of his father in 1707, he succeeded as Margrave of Baden-Baden at the age of four. As such, his mother was regent of Baden-Baden while he was a minor. He reached his majority on 22 October 1727 at the age of 25. At the age of 16 years, the young prince was in love with Marie Leszczyńska, daughter of the former king of Poland but the couple were never to unite. Marie was lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
