Public Family Trees/Hohenzollern/Margaret of Prussia
1872 - 1954 · Female · Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia
Daughter of Frederick III of Germany and Victoria Princess Royal
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Margaret of Prussia
1872 - 1954
Princess Margaret of Prussia was Landgravine of Hesse as the wife of Frederick Charles of Hesse, and the youngest child of Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal. Born at Potsdam in 1872, she married in 1893 and inherited her mother's house at Kronberg in the Taunus, Schloss Friedrichshof, where she lived for most of her life. Her husband was elected King of Finland in 1918, a throne he renounced without ever tak…
Born1872
Born to Frederick III of Germany, Victoria Princess Royal.
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Died1954
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Gen 1 · 1627 - 1667
Louise Henriette of Nassau was Electress of Brandenburg as the first wife of Frederick William, the Great Elector, whom she married in 1646. A daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, she was raised in the Dutch Republic and brought Netherlandish ideas of land drainage, agriculture and garden design to the sandy country around Berlin. The town of Oranienburg, where she rebuilt a country residence, is named after her family. She wrote hymns in the German Reformed tradition, several of which stayed in use long after her death. Of her children, Frederick I survived to become the first King in Prussia, making her the ancestress of the Prussian royal line. She died in 1667 at the age of thirty nine.
Gen 2 · 1657 - 1713
Frederick I was the first King in Prussia, reigning from 1701 until 1713, having succeeded his father the Great Elector as Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg in 1688. Born at Koenigsberg, he negotiated the Crown Treaty with Emperor Leopold I, promising Prussian troops for the War of the Spanish Succession in exchange for recognition of a royal title, and crowned himself at Koenigsberg on 18 January 1701. His court at Berlin was lavish by Prussian standards. He founded the Academy of Arts and, with his wife Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, the Academy of Sciences, and he built the palace of Charlottenburg. His son Frederick William I and grandson Frederick the Great both reacted against his taste for ceremony and expense.
Gen 3 · 1688 - 1740
Frederick William I, called the Soldier King, was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until 1740. Born in Berlin, the son of Frederick I and Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, he dismantled his father's expensive court, reorganised the administration into the General Directory, introduced compulsory primary schooling and left his heir the best drilled army in Europe together with a full treasury. He was known for his regiment of unusually tall soldiers and for the harsh discipline he imposed on his eldest son, the future Frederick the Great, whose attempt to flee Prussia in 1730 ended in a court martial. With his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover he had fourteen children, among them a king of Prussia and a queen of Sweden.
Gen 4 · 1709 - 1758
Wilhelmine of Prussia was Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and the eldest sister of Frederick the Great, to whom she remained unusually close all her life. Born in Berlin in 1709 to Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, she married Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, in 1731 after her mother's plan for a marriage into the British royal family collapsed. At Bayreuth she became a notable patron and builder, responsible for the Hermitage and the Margravial Opera House, and she composed music of her own. Her memoirs are the frankest surviving account of life at her father's court and a principal source for her brother's youth. She died in 1758 during the Seven Years' War.
Gen 4 · 1712 - 1786
Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great, was King in Prussia from 1740 and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786, and is the most celebrated member of the House of Hohenzollern. Born in Berlin to Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, he survived a famously brutal upbringing before turning Prussia into a European great power. He seized Silesia from Maria Theresa in the War of the Austrian Succession, held it against Austria, France and Russia through the Seven Years' War, and gained Polish territory in the First Partition of 1772. He was also a flute player and composer, a correspondent of Voltaire, the builder of Sanssouci at Potsdam and the author of the Anti-Machiavel. His marriage to Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick produced no children, so the crown passed to his nephew Frederick William II.
Gen 5 · 1744 - 1797
Frederick William II was King of Prussia from 1786 until 1797, succeeding his uncle Frederick the Great, who had no children. Born in Berlin in 1744, the son of Prince Augustus William and Luise Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, he relaxed his uncle's austere regime, ended the state monopolies on coffee and tobacco, and spent generously on music and architecture. The Brandenburg Gate was built in his reign, and he was a competent cellist to whom Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated the two cello sonatas of his Opus 5. In policy he was less successful, intervening against revolutionary France, accepting the separate peace of Basel in 1795, and taking part in the Second and Third Partitions of Poland. His eldest son succeeded him as Frederick William III.
Gen 6 · 1770 - 1840
Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 1797 until 1840, through the years of Prussia's collapse before Napoleon and its recovery. Born at Potsdam in 1770, he married Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1793, and the couple became unusually popular. His attempt at neutrality ended in the catastrophic defeats at Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 and the Treaty of Tilsit, after which he backed the reforms of Stein, Hardenberg, Scharnhorst and Humboldt that rebuilt the Prussian state, army and university system. He joined the alliance that defeated Napoleon between 1813 and 1815 and gained the Rhineland at the Congress of Vienna. In 1817 he merged the Lutheran and Reformed congregations into the Prussian Union of churches. Two of his sons, Frederick William IV and Wilhelm I, succeeded him in turn.
Gen 7 · 1795 - 1861
Frederick William IV was King of Prussia from 1840 until 1861, the eldest son of Frederick William III and Queen Louise. Born in Berlin in 1795, he was a gifted draughtsman with a passion for architecture who worked closely with Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Friedrich August Stueler on the building of Potsdam and Berlin, and who pressed for the completion of Cologne Cathedral. Romantic and conservative by temperament, he was overtaken by the revolution of 1848: he conceded a constitution but refused the imperial crown offered to him by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1849, calling it a crown from the gutter. From 1857 he was unable to govern, and his brother Wilhelm acted as regent before succeeding him. His marriage to Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria was childless.
Gen 10 · 1883 - 1942
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia was the second son of Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria. Born at Potsdam in 1883, he was brought up for the army and commanded the First Regiment of Foot Guards in the First World War, serving on both the Western and Eastern fronts and receiving the order Pour le Merite. In 1906 he married Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg; the marriage produced no children and was dissolved in 1926. After the fall of the monarchy he held office in veterans' organisations, including the Stahlhelm league of former front line soldiers, and he lived at Potsdam, in the Villa Ingenheim, where he died in 1942.
Gen 10 · 1887 - 1949
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, known in the family as Auwi, was the fourth son of Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria. Born at Potsdam in 1887, he studied law and took a doctorate at Strasbourg, then served in staff appointments during the First World War. In 1908 he married Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg; their son Alexander Ferdinand was born in 1912 and the marriage was dissolved in 1920. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and became a senior SA officer and a Prussian state councillor, campaigning for the party in the belief that it would restore the monarchy. He was interned after the Second World War and tried before a denazification court, and he died at Stuttgart in 1949.
Gen 11 · 1909 - 1950
Prince Hubertus of Prussia was the third son of Crown Prince Wilhelm and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Born at Potsdam in 1909, he trained in agriculture and served as a Luftwaffe officer until 1943, when the regime dismissed members of the former ruling houses from the armed forces. He married Princess Maria Anna von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in 1941 and, after that marriage ended, Princess Magdalene Reuss of Koestritz in 1943. Looking for a new life once the family's Silesian estates were lost, he emigrated to South West Africa, where he took up farming near Windhoek. He died there in 1950 at the age of forty, leaving one daughter.
The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty, descended in the male line from the Capetian kings of France, that ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848, and that still reigns in Spain today under King Felipe VI. Over four centuries its members also held the thrones of Navarre, Naples and Sicily, Parma and Etruria, which makes it one of the most widely established royal houses in European history. ## Origins The family takes its name from the lordship of Bourbon in the Auvergne, centred on Bourbon-l'Archambault. Its royal line descends from Robert, Count of Clermont, a younger son of King Louis IX of France, whose marriage to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon, carried the name into the Capetian house in 1272. For three centuries afterwards the Bourbons were powerful French princes of the blood rather than kings. That changed with Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, whose marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, queen regnant of Navarre, produced Henry of Navarre. When the Valois line died out in 1589, Henry was the senior Capetian heir, and he took the French throne as Henry IV. ## Notable members Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion and issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598. His son Louis XIII, guided by Cardinal Richelieu, built the centralised state that Louis XIV, the Sun King, carried to its height across a reign of seventy-two years, the longest of any European sovereign, and to the palace of Versailles. Louis XV and then Louis XVI inherited that system, and Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were swept away by the French Revolution in 1792. The dynasty returned with Louis XVIII in 1814 and Charles X in 1824, and in 1830 the crown passed to Louis Philippe I of the cadet House of Orleans, the last king to rule in France. ## The Spanish branch In 1700 the childless Charles II of Spain left his crown to Philip, Duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV. Philip became Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, at the cost of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with his renunciation of any claim to the French throne. His descendants include the reforming Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931. The monarchy was restored in 1975 under Juan Carlos I, grandson of Alfonso XIII, who presided over Spain's transition to democracy and abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI. Felipe's elder daughter Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is heir to the throne. ## Significance No other family links the absolute monarchy of Versailles to a working constitutional monarchy in twenty-first century Madrid. Bourbon marriages tied the house to the Habsburgs of Austria and Spain, the dukes of Savoy, the Medici of Florence and the British royal family, so a Bourbon family tree doubles as a map of European dynastic politics from the Reformation to the present day. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | House of Bourbon (Maison de Bourbon, Casa de Borbon) | | Place of origin | Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne, France | | Founder of the line | Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), son of Louis IX | | First king of France | Henry IV, reigned 1589 to 1610 | | Last king to rule France | Louis Philippe I, reigned 1830 to 1848 | | First king of Spain | Philip V, reigned 1700 to 1746 | | Head of the house in Spain | King Felipe VI, since 2014 | | Heir in Spain | Leonor, Princess of Asturias | | Principal seats | Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Louvre, the Royal Palace of Madrid |
The House of Medici was a Florentine banking family and political dynasty that rose from mercantile wealth in the late fourteenth century to dominate the Republic of Florence, produced two popes and two queens of France, and ruled as hereditary Grand Dukes of Tuscany for nearly two centuries before the direct male line died out in 1737. ## Origins The family's fortune began with Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, who founded the Medici Bank around 1397 and built it into one of the most trusted financial institutions in Europe through close ties to the papacy. His son Cosimo de' Medici turned that wealth into political dominance of Florence without ever holding a formal princely title, ruling through alliance, patronage, and public opinion for three decades. Cosimo's descendants, especially his grandson Lorenzo de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, consolidated the family's grip on the city while becoming the era's foremost patrons of Renaissance art and humanist scholarship. ## Notable Members Lorenzo the Magnificent's sons included Giovanni, who became Pope Leo X, the first Medici pope, and whose cousin Giulio later reigned as Pope Clement VII. Lorenzo's granddaughter Catherine de' Medici became queen of France and, as regent, steered the country through the Wars of Religion; a later Medici, Marie de' Medici, likewise became queen of France as the second wife of Henry IV. When the senior line failed with the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici in 1537, the family's junior branch, descended from Cosimo the Elder's brother, provided Cosimo I de' Medici, who was crowned the first Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1569. His descendants, including the scientific patrons Cosimo II and Ferdinando II, ruled Tuscany until Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last Grand Duke, died without an heir in 1737. His sister, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, outlived him as the family's final member. ## Significance Beyond their political rule, the Medici reshaped European culture through unmatched patronage: they backed Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Galileo Galilei, and financed the buildings, art, and institutions that still define Florence today. Anna Maria Luisa's 1737 Patto di Famiglia bequeathed the family's entire art collection to the Tuscan state on the condition it never leave Florence, directly founding the holdings of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Founded | c. 1397, Florence (Medici Bank) | | Founder | Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici | | Seat | Florence; later the Grand Duchy of Tuscany | | Peak title | Grand Duke of Tuscany (from 1569) | | Popes produced | Leo X (1513-1521), Clement VII (1523-1534) | | Queens of France | Catherine de' Medici, Marie de' Medici | | Dynasty ended | 1737 (Gian Gastone); 1743 (Anna Maria Luisa) | | Lasting legacy | Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace collections |
The House of Plantagenet was the royal dynasty that ruled England for 331 years, from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, making it the longest-reigning royal house in English history. Fourteen Plantagenet kings held the throne in unbroken succession, and in the fifteenth century the family's two junior branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, fought each other for the crown in the civil wars later known as the Wars of the Roses. ## Origins The dynasty came from Anjou in western France. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, is said to have worn a sprig of broom, *planta genista*, in his cap, and from that nickname the family eventually took its name, although it was not used as an actual surname until Richard, 3rd Duke of York, adopted it in the 1440s. Geoffrey's marriage in 1128 to Empress Matilda, daughter and designated heir of Henry I of England, gave their son a claim to the English throne that he made good in 1154. With Normandy and Anjou behind him, and Aquitaine gained through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II ruled lands reaching from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, the assemblage historians call the Angevin Empire. ## Notable members The early, or Angevin, kings are among the most familiar names in English history: Henry II, whose itinerant justices and sworn juries laid the foundations of the common law; Richard the Lionheart, a leading commander of the Third Crusade; and King John, who sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey, Edward I conquered Wales and summoned the Model Parliament, and Edward III opened the Hundred Years' War and founded the Order of the Garter. Later generations produced Edward the Black Prince, the victor of Poitiers, Henry V of Agincourt, and Richard III, whose lost grave was rediscovered in Leicester in 2012. ## Lancaster and York Edward III's many sons divided the dynasty. From his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, came Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and, through Gaunt's Beaufort children, Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII. From his fourth son, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, combined with the senior Mortimer descent from his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, came Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and his sons Edward IV and Richard III. The rivalry of those branches produced thirty years of intermittent civil war, ending when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth and married Elizabeth of York, uniting the red and white roses. ## Significance No other family has shaped English institutions so deeply. Under the Plantagenets, Magna Carta became a settled principle, parliament grew from an occasional royal council into a body whose consent was needed for taxation, the common law took its enduring form, and English displaced French as the language of the court. Their castles, abbeys and cathedrals still define the medieval landscape of England and Wales. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Ruled | England, 1154 to 1485 | | Founder | Henry II, son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and Empress Matilda | | Place of origin | Anjou, France | | Kings | Fourteen, from Henry II to Richard III | | Branches | Angevin, Lancaster, York | | Emblems | The broom flower, the red rose of Lancaster, the white rose of York | | Last king | Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485 | | Legacy | Magna Carta, English common law, the growth of parliament |
Margaret of Prussia's recorded parents are Frederick III of Germany, Victoria Princess Royal.
Margaret of Prussia has 4 recorded siblings: Wilhelm II of Germany, Charlotte of Prussia, Henry of Prussia, Sophia of Prussia.
Margaret of Prussia is recorded as Landgravine of Hesse in the Hohenzollern family tree.
Margaret of Prussia's recorded native place is Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia.
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