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Frederick William I: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Friedrich Wilhelm I
Born August 14, 1688 • Berlin • Germany
Died May 31, 1740 (aged 51) • Potsdam • Prussia
Title / Office king (1713-1740), Prussia
Notable Family Members father Frederick I • daughter Wilhelmina • son Frederick II

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Portrait painting of Frederick II of Brandenburg, King of Prussia, wearing a dark coat with a star medal, yellow gloves, and holding a cane, with the inscription Fridericus II Rex Prussiae.
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
prime minister of Prussia
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Akbar Hunting
Akbar
Mughal emperor
Frederick William
Frederick William
elector of Brandenburg
Charles XII
Charles XII
king of Sweden
Matthias I
Matthias I
king of Hungary
Portrait of Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, standing in ornate military dress beside a blue-draped table, with a cityscape and green curtain in the background.
Mahmud II
Ottoman sultan
Roon, engraving by K. Tetzel, 1861
Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev
Russian general and statesman
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Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf
German statesman
Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
Prussian field marshal
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Prussian general
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
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Leopold I
prince of Anhalt-Dessau

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