Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.

The area became known as the Duchy of Prussia or Ducal Prussia, later East Prussia.

During his reign he permitted the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns to inherit Ducal Prussia.

Following the death of Hohenzollern Albert of Brandenburg Prussia, Duke of Prussia ( 1525 – 1568 ), Joachim II, the prince-elector Kurfürst of Brandenburg, became co-inheritor of Ducal Prussia.

The town of Marienwerder, previously in Ducal Prussia, became an administrative capital of the newly-acquired territory, which became the Province of West Prussia on 31 January 1773.

Albert sought to unite Warmia with Ducal Prussia, causing the Catholics of the town to swear allegiance to the king of Poland in return for aid against Protestant Prussia.

Royal Prussia is distinguished from later Ducal Prussia, the remaining parts of Prussia around Königsberg, which was a fiefdom under Polish suzerainty, first held by the Teutonic Knights, from 1525 by secular dukes of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Teutonic Knights and its successors as a fief of Poland, becoming the Ducal Prussia in 1525 when the Order's last Grand Master Albert von Hohenzollern adopted Lutheranism and secularized the land as its hereditary ruler.

* Detailed Map of Prussia from about 1635 containing Ducal and Royal Prussia

The Duchy of Prussia or Ducal Prussia (; ; ; ; Old Prussian: Ercōgista Prūsija ) was a duchy in the eastern part of Prussia from 1525 – 1701.

In 1945, the Corps de la Garde Grand Ducale ( Grand Ducal Guard Corps ), garrisoned in the Saint-Esprit barracks in Luxembourg City and the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions were established, one in Walferdange and the other in Dudelange.

Since this group was too large for efficient administration, a Council of Ten ( also called the Ducal Council or the Signoria ), controlled much of the administration of the city.

* The Ducal Palace ( current Town Hall, 1775 – 1806 ), built for the Duke of the Asinara in the 18th century.

Yet, during the Second Northern War, Charles X Gustav of Sweden invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg ( January 1656 ), which made the duchy a Swedish fief.

When the tide of the war turned against Charles X Gustav, he concluded the Treaty of Labiau ( November 1656 ), making Frederick William I the full souvereign in Ducal Prussia and Ermland.

Władysław had many plans ( dynastic, about wars, territorial gains: regaining Silesia, Inflanty ( Livonia ), incorporation of Ducal Prussia, creation of his hereditary dukedom etc.

The Ducal territories were often marked by its major cities and monasteries including the area west of Mont Saint-Michel ( inclusive ) and north of Nantes / Naoned ( inclusive ), and the areas circumscribing Rennes / Roazhon and Vannes / Gwened.

A painted sketch ( 143 x 362 cm ), held in the Louvre Museum ( Paris ), was submitted as a proposal by Tintoretto for a picture in the Ducal Palace in Venice.

Major industries include Twinings the tea and coffee firm, Ducal Pine Furniture ( until they closed in 2003 ), Thompson International Publishers, who produce the Pitkin Guides to be found in many churches and other notable buildings, financial institutions such as Simplyhealth and Lloyds Banking Group, and the Stannah Group, whose HQ is also in the town.

In 1537 Duke Albert of Prussia donated an estate to Jan Malecki ( Johannes Maletius ), a Polish Protestant from Kraków who had fled to Ducal Prussia, at the time a fief of Poland, to establish a printing house .< ref >*</ br >* Hołd pruski

* Ducal Palace ( also Palazzo Cybo Malaspina, 16th century ), now the seat of the Fine Arts Academy.

the head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Frederick Konrad ( born 1952 ), has no heir, so the representation of his house, after its extinction, will pass to the Head of the Grand Ducal House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

These contrasts, however, simplify the facts, since Canaletto often painted the drab communal life and neighborhoods ( creating in them some epic artistic qualities ), while Guardi did not avoid sometimes painting the ceremonies of Ducal Venice.

Another literary consequence of his war service was A Muse at Sea, a compilation of his poems earlier published in the Ducal Weekly ( the Iron Duke ’ s newspaper ), the Morning Post, the Cornhill Magazine and the Nation.

Thereafter referred to as Ducal Prussia (; ), remaining a Polish fief.

In 1618, the Prussian Hohenzollern were extinct in the male line, and so the Polish fief of Prussia was passed on to the senior Brandenburg Hohenzollern line, the ruling margraves and prince-electors of Brandenburg, who thereafter ruled Brandenburg ( a fief of the Holy Roman Empire ), and Ducal Prussia ( a Polish fief ), in personal union.

In the German Empire, the style of Serene Highness was usually held by princes of lower rank than those who were entitled to Highness ( exceptions were the Wettin cadets of the Ernestine duchies ), Grand Ducal Highness, Royal Highness, and Imperial Highness.

Finland maintains the distinction between Ducal and Countal dignity shown in the coronets for arms of the historical provinces while all the Swedish provinces have carried the Swedish style Ducal coronet since 1884.

Giovanni de Arrigo Arnolfini married, and was survived by, Giovanna ( Jeanne ) Cenami, and they were the couple thought to be the shown in the Arnolfini Portrait from 1861 until 1994, when a French naval historian, Jacques Paviot, discovered in the Ducal accounts that the Duke had in 1447 presented two silver pots to " Jehan Arnoulphin " on his marriage-by this time Van Eyck had been dead for six years.

The Diocese of Warmia lost the two thirds of its diocese within Teutonic Prussia after 1525 when the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted the monastic state into Ducal Prussia, himself ruling as duke.

" Rudolf was, in fact, never buried within the almost-solid stone structure, but in the Ducal Crypt ( Vienna ) | Ducal Crypt of the Stephansdom in Vienna.

The region was included within Lithuania in the Treaty of Melno in 1422, and the current site of Jurbarkas began to develop as a border town and customs point, growing through the exporting of lumber on the Neman to Ducal Prussia.

Before the French revolution, prior to the integration of the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, Rennes was the capital of the duchy, with the other historical capitals of Brittany's Ducal period being Nantes and Vannes.

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which-after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814-incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory became part of the Stade Region, established in 1823.

Full sovereignty was a necessary prerequisite for upgrading Ducal Prussia to become the sovereign Kingdom of Prussia, not to be confused with Polish Royal Prussia, in 1701.

After the Kingdom of Prussia's annexation of Royal Prussia in 1772, a year later former Ducal Prussia including formerly Royal Prussian Warmia ( German: Ermland ) was reorganised into the Province of East Prussia, while most of former Royal Prussia became the Province of West Prussia.

Their failure to successfully reassert their Ducal rights hastened the merger of the Ducal crown into the Kingdom of France.

* Province of East Prussia, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from former Ducal Prussia and Warmia in 1773, re-established 1878 ; an exclave of Germany after World War I

From 1525 until 1701 Osterode was part of Ducal Prussia, and after 1701 part of Kingdom of Prussia.

Thus after almost 200 years of Polish suzerainty, Prussia regained full sovereignty in 1657, a necessary prerequisite for elevating Ducal Prussia to become the sovereign Kingdom of Prussia in 1701 ( not to be confused with Polish Royal Prussia ).

From 1525 to 1701 Mohrungen was part of Ducal Prussia and became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which – after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 – incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Kranenburg, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which – after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 – incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Harsefeld, became part of the Stade Region, established in 1823.

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which-after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814-incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Himmelpforten, became part of the Stade Region, established in 1823.

The Kingdom of Hanover incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.

In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which – after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 – incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Elmlohe, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.