His successor, Frederick II Irontooth, established Berlin as capital of the margraviate, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as German emperors.

A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the son of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, and his first wife Magdalena of Saxony.

He died in 1499 from pleural effusion at Arneburg Castle and was succeeded by his eldest son Joachim I. John was the first of the Hohenzollern electors to be buried in Brandenburg, first at Lehnin Abbey, later transferred to Berlin Cathedral by order of his grandson Joachim II.

In the course of Hohenzollern power politics Joachim Nestor and his brother managed to get the latter, Albert of Mainz, first onto the sees of Magdeburg and then its suffragan of Halberstadt, both prince-bishoprics also comprising princely territories.

Its ruling dynasty was the House of Hohenzollern, a Swabian noble family first mentioned in 1061.

He was a son of Burgrave Frederick V of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Meissen, and was the first member of the House of Hohenzollern to rule the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Frederick II was born in Tangermünde to Frederick I, Brandenburg's first Hohenzollern ruler, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut, and Maddalena Visconti.

The first Hohenzollern palace was built in 1440-1457 under Margrave John the Alchemist.

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.

At first, Hohenzollern tried to hold on his initial positions and his men greeted Oudinot's advancing columns with intense musketry.

Sigmaringen was first documented in 1077 and was in the principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1850, after which it became a province of Prussia's Province of Hohenzollern.

Subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and finally as German emperors.

At Monte Creto ( 13 May 1800 ), Gazan's division and the first column of Soult's main force ( approximately 5, 000 men ), attacked a stronger Austrian position of 7, 000, under command of Prince Hohenzollern.

The monarch of the duchy, with title of Grand Duke of Posen, was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia and his representative was the Duke-Governor: the first was Prince Antoni Radziwiłł ( 1815 – 1831 ), who was married to Princess Louise of Prussia, the king's cousin.

In the Battle of Loos, notable for being the first battle in which British forces used poison gas, the 9th ( Scottish ) Division assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the 5th Camerons suffered horrific casualties, and Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock gained a Victoria Cross for his actions.

He was the first prime minister under Prince of Romania ( afterwards King of Romania ) Carol of Hohenzollern.

It was again besieged by the first Hohenzollern margrave Frederick I in 1434, but to no avail.

The first electricity was sold to the Hohenzollern royal family.

In 1656, during the early Second Northern War, the Brandenburgian Hohenzollern first took the Prussian duchy and Ermland ( Ermeland, Warmia ) as Swedish fiefs in the Treaty of Königsberg, before the Swedish king released them from the vassalage and made them absolute sovereigns in these provinces.

The Battalion saw heavy fighting at the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt -- a subsidiary action of the Battle of Loos -- which was their first major action of the war.

On July 9, 1386, the citizens of Gersau fought with the Swiss for the first time, on the battlefield of Sempach, where the banner of Count Rudolf of Hohenzollern was captured.

The first documented mention of Jarzębski was in 1612, when he became a member of the chapel of Johann Siegmund Hohenzollern in Berlin.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.

Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king, is not a well documented figure, his greatest achievement being certainly to survive as king and defeating the Carolingian claimant, thus allowing him to establish what would become one of Europe's most powerful house of kings.

Louis was the first real claimant of Luxembourg to descend from both sisters, the daughters of Elisabeth of Bohemia, the last Luxembourg empress.

This was the first time that the duchy had a monarch who had no claim to inheritance of the medieval patrimony ( as lineages through his mother and wife had a better entitled claimant, the Prussian king himself ).

Though Jovian made accommodations to appease this potential claimant, Procopius fell increasingly under suspicion in the first year of Valens ' reign.

The best surviving male claimant of the York dynasty was the queen's first cousin, Edward, Earl of Warwick ( son of George, Duke of Clarence ).

* The Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter's relations with Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum and Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt deteriorate to the point where they support a rival claimant to the Syrian throne, Alexander Balas, who claims to be the son of the former Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and, therefore, a first cousin of Demetrius.

His first case was in the Court of King's Bench in 1581, and was known as Lord Cromwell's Case after the claimant, Lord Henry Cromwell, a landlord in Coke's home county of Norfolk.

Demetrius I Soter's relations with Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon ( reigned 159 – 138 BCE ), Ptolemy VI of Egypt ( reigned 163 – 145 BCE ), and Ptolemy's co-ruler Cleopatra II of Egypt were deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid throne: Alexander Balas, who purported to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and a first cousin of Demetrius.

Franklin and his allies trace the claimant to a seedy waterside inn, only to discover that the Indians have got there first: he is dead and the stone is gone.

The trial started on July 18, 2005, and Polanski made English legal history as the first claimant to give evidence by video link.

Infante Carlos, Count of Molina ( 29 March 1788 – 10 March 1855 ), was the first Carlist claimant from 1833 to 1845, including during the First Carlist War.

The priority right allows the claimant to file a subsequent application in another country for the same invention, design, or trademark effective as of the date of filing the first application.

Wynonie Harris ' 1947 cover of Roy Brown's " Good Rocking Tonight " is also a claimant for the title of first rock and roll record, as the popularity of this record led to many answer songs, mostly by black artists, with the same rocking beat, during the late 40s and early 50s.

For an action in detinue to succeed, a claimant must first prove that he had better right to possession of the chattel than the defendant and second that the defendant refused to return the chattel once demanded by the claimant.

Although the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts have a largely co-extensive jurisdiction, with the choice of court being given in the first place to the pursuer ( the claimant ), the majority of difficult or high-value cases in Scotland are brought in the Court of Session.

August 23, 1947, on a wind-aided straight, boardwalk at Long Branch, New Jersey, McKenley was timed in 45. 0 for 440 yards, a claimant to being the first person to break the 45 second barrier at 400 metres.

In the recession of 2008 – 09, it was the first place in Britain where the claimant count rate of unemployment surpassed 10 %, breaching that level in January 2009.

Prior to being installed as Tui Nayau, the claimant must first be confirmed upon the decision of the noble households making up the Vuanirewa clan and then installed Sau or High Chief of Lau.

In the case of " A retailer vs Ms B & Ms K " at Oxford County Court on 9th May 2012, the first civil recovery case to proceed to full trial in court, Judge Charles Harris QC ruled that the retailer had " failed to establish that its security staff had been diverted from their ordinary duties, still less that any such diversion would have caused significant disruption to the claimant ’ s business.

His first wife, Lady Catherine, was a potential claimant to Elizabeth's throne, and law established that it was a penal offence for her to marry without notifying the Sovereign.