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Frederick William
The name Frederick William usually refers to several monarchs and princes of the Hohenzollern dynasty: * Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620–1688) * Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675–1713) * Frederick William I of Prussia (1688–1740), King of Prussia * Frederick William II of Prussia (1744–1797), King of Prussia * Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840), King of Prussia * Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861), King of Prussia * Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819–1904) * Frederick III, German Emperor (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia. He was known as Frederick William when he was Crown Prince. * Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1880–1925), son of Prince Albert of Prussia and great-grandson of Frederick William III. Other nobility with the name Frederick William are: * Frederick William von Steuben (1730–1794), Prussian officer in the American Revolutionary War * Frederick William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Frederick Of Great Britain
Prince Frederick William of Great Britain (13 May 1750 – 29 December 1765) was a grandchild of King George II and the youngest brother of King George III. He was the youngest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He died at the young age of 15. He was buried at Westminster Abbey, London. Life Frederick was born on 13 May 1750, at Leicester House, Westminster, London. His father was Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach. His mother was The Princess of Wales (née Augusta of Saxe-Gotha). He was christened on 17 June of the same year, at the same house, by the Bishop of Oxford The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The current bishop is Steven Croft (bishop), Steven Croft, following the Confirm ..., Thomas Secker. His godparents were his brother Prince George, his maternal u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 183115 June 1888), or Friedrich III, was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and his death in June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors. Known informally as "Fritz", he was the only son of Emperor Wilhelm I and was raised in his family's tradition of military service. Following the unification of Germany in 1871 his father, then King of Prussia, became German Emperor. Upon Wilhelm's death at the age of ninety on 9 March 1888, the thrones passed to Frederick, who had been German Crown Prince for seventeen years and Crown Prince of Prussia for twenty-seven years. Frederick was suffering from cancer of the larynx when he died at the age of 56, following unsuccessful medical treatments for his condition. Frederick married Victoria, Princess Royal, the oldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. The couple were well-matched; their shared Liberalism in Germany, liberal ideology led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family came from the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the late 11th century and took their name from Hohenzollern Castle. The first ancestors of the Hohenzollerns were mentioned in 1061. The Hohenzollern family split into two branches, the Catholic Swabian branch and the Protestant Franconian branch,''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' XIX. "Haus Hohenzollern". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2011, pp. 30–33. . which ruled the Burgraviate of Nuremberg and later became the Brandenburg-Prussian branch. The Swabian branch ruled the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1849, and also ruled Romania from 1866 to 1947. Members of the Franconian branch became Margrave of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley, PC (3 July 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister-at-law and economist. Early life Mulley was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the son of William Mulley, a general labourer from The Fens, and his wife Mary (née Boiles), a domestic servant. He attended Warwick School on a scholarship between 1929 and 1936, leaving with the higher school certificate. As his father, who by this time was unemployed, could not afford to support him through university, Mulley instead became an accounts clerk under the national health insurance scheme. Dell, Edmund"Mulley, Frederick William, Baron Mulley (1918–1995)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2024. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment during the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William III (other)
Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. Frederick William III or Friedrich Wilhelm III may also refer to: * Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Friedrich Wilhelm III (12 July 1657 – 14 April 1672) was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He was the second son of Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Magdalene Sybille of Saxony, his second wife. Life The death of his older brother C ... (1657–1672) * Frederick William III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1723–1757) * Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse (1854–1888), titular Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel {{hndis, Frederick William 03 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William II (other) (1744–1797), King of Prussia from 1786
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Frederick William II may refer to: * Frederick William II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1603–1669) * Frederick William II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1687–1749) * Frederick William II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1706–1734) * Frederick William II of Prussia Frederick William II (; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was also the prince-elector of Brandenburg and (through the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William I (other)
Frederick William I () may refer to: *Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562–1602) *Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg-Prussia (1620–1688) *Frederick William I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1682–1719) *Frederick William I of Prussia (1688–1740) *Frederick William, Elector of Hesse Frederick William I (20 August 1802 – 6 January 1875) was, between 1847 and 1866, the last Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). Early life He was born at Hanau on 20 August 1802. He was the son of Prince William, later William ... (1802–1875) See also * Frederick William (other) * Friedrich Wilhelm (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Frederick William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Frederick William
Mount Frederick William is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia Canada. The mountain was named during the 1860 survey by which charted all of the area and named the mountain after then- Prussian Crown Prince Frederick William, who had married Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.Hitz, Charles W.(2003). ''Through the Rapids - The History of Princess Louisa Inlet'', p.54. Sikta 2 Publishing, Kirkland, WA. . This mountain has been given the nickname of Frankenstein for it has the familiar profile of the famous monster's face. Gallery Image:MtFredWill.jpg, Mt. Frederick William seen from Princess Louisa Inlet at Dusk. Image:MtFredWill3.JPG, Mt. Frederick William close up Image:MtFWAir.jpg, Behind Mt. Frederick William as seen from 20,000 feet (Bowl shape mountain) External links * CM_C2308 Fraser River to N.E.Pt. of Texada Island including Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humboldt University Of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher as the University of Berlin () in 1809, and opened in 1810. From 1828 until its closure in 1945, it was named the (Royal) Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin (FWU Berlin; ). During the Cold War, the university found itself in East Berlin and was ''de facto'' split in two when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. The university received its current name in honour of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1949. The university is divided into nine faculties including its medical school shared with the Freie Universität Berlin. The university has a student enrollment of around 35,000 students, and offers degree programs in some 171 disciplines from un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Lewis
Frederick William Lewis (died May 24, 1907) was a Canadian politician from Ontario. He represented Dufferin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ... to his death. References See also * 13th Parliament of Ontario Place of birth missing Place of death missing 1907 deaths Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{Ontario-MPP-stub People from Dufferin County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William III, Landgrave Of Hesse
Frederick William (III), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (, 15 October 1854 – 14 October 1888) was (titular) Elector of Hesse-Kassel. Early life He was the eldest son of Frederick William George Adolph of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and his second wife Princess Anna of Prussia. His father's first wife was Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia but she died in childbirth delivering a son who also died. From his parents marriage, his siblings were Princess Elisabeth (who married Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt), Prince Alexander Frederick (who married Baroness Gisela Stockhorner von Starheim), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (who married Princess Margaret of Prussia), Princess Marie-Polyxene (who died young), and Princess Sybille (who married Friedrich Alexander Henry Robert Carl Albert, Baron von Vincke). His father was the only son of Wilhelm I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark. His maternal gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Frederick William Of Hesse-Kassel
Frederick William George Adolphus, Landgrave of Hesse (; 26 November 1820 – 14 October 1884) was the only son of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelm I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark. Early life and marriages Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel was born in Copenhagen on 26 November 1820. He moved to Denmark with his family at the age of three, and grew up there. He attended the university in Bonn, and then began a military career. In 1843 he was third in line for the Danish throne after the King's son and brother, Prince Ferdinand. His siblings included Louise of Hesse-Kassel, future Queen of Denmark, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Auguste Sophie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel. On 28 January 1844, Frederick married Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia at St Petersburg. Frederick had come to St Petersburg as a prospective bridegroom for her sister Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Olga, but fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
