Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

* 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1608 )

Albert was born in Ansbach in Franconia as the third son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

It was contrary to Absalon's advice and warnings that Valdemar I rendered fealty to the emperor Frederick Barbarossa at Dole in 1162.

However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united with the main Brandenburg line, remaining independent as " Brandenburg-Ansbach ".

Anton succeeded his brother Frederick August I as King of Saxony when he died, on 5 May 1827.

In 1435, Frederick I became the elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which he ruled until 1440.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

The result was the Hohenstaufen Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) 1152 – 1190 who came to power.

In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.

* 1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.

The exact year is also unknown ( on the first page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, he stated: " I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

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Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

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Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg.

* George Frederick ( 1539 – 1603 ), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Regent of the Duchy of Prussia.

* 1420 – 1427: Frederick VI / I / I, ( brother of, also Elector of Brandenburg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach )

From 1412 Frederick VI became Margrave of Brandenburg as Frederick I and Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I.

* 1398: Frederick I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1486: Frederick II / II ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1543: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1692: George Frederick II / II ( later Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1757: Christian II Frederick ( 1757 – 1791 ) ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1420: Frederick I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach )

* 1495: Frederick II / II ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach )

* 1553: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1726: George Frederick II / II ( previously Margrave of Kulmbach )

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

* 1543 – 1603: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Regent of Prussia )

** 1578 – 1603: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( Regent, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf )

As his father then ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( from 1457 also as Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ), he was born at the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach in Franconia, where he spent his childhood years until in 1466 he received the call to Brandenburg as presumed heir by his uncle Elector Frederick II.

* 1460 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1536 )

A member of the House of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm was the son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the brother of Albert, Duke of Prussia, and the grandson of Albert III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg and Casimir IV Jagiellon.

* April 25 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( b. 1539 )

* April 4 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( b. 1460 )

* April 5 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1603 )

* May 8 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1536 )

Her father, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality of Ansbach, and she belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

Caroline was born on 1 March 1683 at Ansbach, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach.

John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 18 October 1654 – 22 March 1686 ) succeeded his father Albert II as margrave of Ansbach in 1667.