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  • Thumbnail for Prussia
    Germany. The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians; in the 13th century, the Teutonic Knights – an organized Catholic medieval military order of German...
    96 KB (11,056 words) - 00:08, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for William I, German Emperor
    of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a...
    61 KB (5,572 words) - 00:35, 27 July 2024
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    minorities. From the 13th century, the region of Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 it became...
    92 KB (8,367 words) - 15:47, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teutonic Order
    Order of Knights"), Deutschherrenorden ("Order of the German Lords"), Deutschritterorden ("Order of the German Knights"), Marienritter ("Knights of Mary")...
    81 KB (9,148 words) - 01:39, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederick William IV of Prussia
    October 1795 – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, was king of Prussia from 7 June 1840 until his death...
    64 KB (7,045 words) - 21:26, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Prussians
    inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and the Curonian Lagoon to the east. As...
    35 KB (3,966 words) - 15:55, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederick III, German Emperor
    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...
    93 KB (9,988 words) - 06:51, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Konrad I of Masovia
    take up the task and readily embark upon the invasion and obtaining of the land of Prussia (terram Prusciae) for the honor and glory of the true God. "We...
    13 KB (1,473 words) - 13:46, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederick the Great
    was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after...
    180 KB (17,473 words) - 15:29, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knights Templar
    The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith...
    90 KB (10,853 words) - 08:00, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knights Hospitaller
    known as the Knights Hospitaller (/ˈhɒspɪtələr/), is a Catholic military order. It was founded in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century...
    93 KB (10,832 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2024
  • The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Jerusalem, or Templars, was a military order founded in c. 1120. The Knights Templar were an elite...
    43 KB (6,216 words) - 15:27, 18 April 2024
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    was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern...
    139 KB (16,307 words) - 11:09, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of the Crown (Prussia)
    the 4th Class, which was plain). The obverse gilt central disc bore the crown of Prussia, surrounded by a blue enamel ring bearing the motto of the German...
    9 KB (1,031 words) - 18:57, 14 May 2024
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    Fischer, Mary (ed.). The chronicle of Prussia: a history of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331. Nikolaus (First issued in paperback ed.). London...
    90 KB (11,437 words) - 23:07, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
    Louise of Prussia (German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm...
    31 KB (2,946 words) - 23:00, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Otto von Bismarck
    rapidly in Prussian politics under King Wilhelm I of Prussia. He served as the Prussian ambassador to Russia and France and in both houses of the Prussian...
    171 KB (19,852 words) - 11:58, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Military order (religious society)
    of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the...
    39 KB (2,599 words) - 13:12, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for House Order of Hohenzollern
    principalities in southern Germany were Catholic collateral lines of the House of Hohenzollern, cousins to the Protestant ruling house of Prussia. On 23 August...
    30 KB (3,415 words) - 18:44, 28 June 2024
  • list of the knights (men) and members (women) of the Royal Order of the Seraphim: The Royal Order of the Seraphim was revised in 1975. Since then, the order...
    195 KB (118 words) - 17:51, 1 August 2024
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