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Descendants of Albrecht (Albert) of Brandenburg


Generation No. 1

1. DUKE ALBRECHT (ALBERT) OF20 BRANDENBURG (THE GREAT19 ELECTOR, FRIEDRICH WILLIAM BRANDENBURG, ELECTOR GEORG WILHELM OF18 BRANDENBURG, ELECTOR JOHANN SIEGMUND OF17, ELECTOR JOACHIM FRIEDRICH OF16, ELECTOR JOHANN GEORG OF15, ELECTOR JOACHIM II OF14, ELECTOR JOACHIM NESTOR OF13, ELECTOR JOHANN CICERO OF12, ELECTOR ALBRECHT ACHILLES OF11, ELECTOR FRIEDRICH I OF BRANDENBURG &10 MARGRAVE, FRIEDRICH V OF9 HOHENZOLLERN-NURNBERG, JOHANN II OF8 NURNBERG, FRIEDRICH IV OF7, FRIEDRICH III OF6, KONRAD I OF5, FRIEDRICH I OF4, FRIEDRICH3 II, FRIEDRICH I2 VON ZOLLERN, HOUSE OF1 HOHENZOLLERN, BURKARD VON ZOLORIN)1,2 was born January 24, 1671/72 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia3, and died 1731. He married PRINCESS MARIE DOROTHEA OF COURLAND3 1703. She was born 1684, and died 1743.
Notes for DUKE ALBRECHT (ALBERT) OF BRANDENBURG:
The Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns were Lutheran. As a result of marriage contracts at the beginning of the 17th century, the Hohenzollern family turned Calvinist, but did not impose their form of Protestantism on their subjects.
Ref: Carlyle's History: This ALBERT ("Albert Friedrich") died suddenly 1731, age fifty-nine).
Then, by another, the younger of those old Half-brothers, there is a Karl, a second Friedrich Wilhelm, Cousin Margraves: plenty of Cousins;--and two young Margravines among them, [Michaelis, i. 425.] the youngest about Fritz's own age. [NOTE OF THE COUSIN MARGRAVES.--Great Elector, by his Second Wife, had five Sons, two of whom left Children;--as follows (so far as they concern us,-- the others omitted):--

1. Son PHILIP'S Children (Mother the Old Dessauer's Sister) are: Friedrich Wilhelm (1700), who wished much, but in vain, to marry Wilhelmina. Heinrich Friedrich (1709), a comrade of Fritz's in youth; sometimes getting into scrapes;--misbehaved, some way, at the Battle of Molwits (first of Friedrich's Battles), 1741, and was inexorably CUT by the new King, and continued under a cloud thenceforth .--This PHILIP ("Philip Wilhelm") died 1711, his forty-third year; Widow long survived him. 2. Son ALBERT'S Children (Mother a Courland Princess) are: Karl (1705); lived near Custrin; became a famed captain, in the Silesian Wars, under his Cousin. Friedrich (1701); fell at Molwitz, 1741.

Friedrich Wilhelm (a Margraf Friedrich Wilhelm "No. 2,"--NAMESAKE of his now Majesty, it is like); born 1714; killed at Prag, by a cannon-shot (at King Friedrich's hand, reconnoitring the place), 1744.--

This ALBERT ("Albert Friedrich" ) died suddenly 1731, age fifty-nine.] No want of Cousins; the Crown-Prince seeing much of them all; and learning pleasantly their various qualities, which were good in most, in some not so good, and did not turn out supreme in any case. But, for the rest, Sister Wilhelmina is his grand confederate and companion; true in sport and in earnest, in joy and in sorrow. Their truthful love to one another, now and till death, is probably the brightest element their life yielded to either of them.


Children of ALBRECHT BRANDENBURG and MARIE COURLAND are:
2. i. MARKGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM21 VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT, b. 1701, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia; d. April 10, 1741, The Battle of Mollwitz (in battle)..
ii. MARKGRAF FRIEDRICH VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT3, b. August 9, 1704, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; d. June 15, 1707, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia..
3. iii. MARKGRAF KARL VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT, b. June 10, 1705, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; d. June 22, 1762, Breslau.
iv. MARKGRAEFIN ANNA SOFIE CHARLOTTE VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT3, b. December 24, 1706, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; d. January 3, 1750/51, Castle Sangerhausen4; m. DUKE WILHELM HEINRICH OF SAXE-EISENACH-JENA, June 3, 1723, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; b. November 10, 1691, Oranienwald; d. July 26, 1741, Eisenach S. P..

Notes for DUKE WILHELM HEINRICH OF SAXE-EISENACH-JENA:
Was Duke of Saxe-Eisenach-Jena 1729-1741.
v. MARGRAEFIN LUISE VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT5, b. May 11, 1709; d. February 19, 1725/26.
vi. FRIEDRICH VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT, b. August 13, 1710, Berlin; d. April 10, 1741, Mollwitz (in battle).
vii. MARKGRAEFIN ALBERTINE VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT5, b. April 21, 1712, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; d. September 7, 1750, Bernburg; m. FIRST VIKTOR VIKTOR FRIEDRICH VON ANHALT-BERNBURG, May 22, 1733, Potsdam; b. September 20, 1700, Bernburg; d. May 18, 1765, Bernburg.
viii. MARGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT5, b. March 28, 1714, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.; d. September 12, 1744, Prag (in battle).
Notes for MARGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT:
Friedrich Wilhelm, the third son of Albert was born in 1714, a namesake of Friedrich the Great. Ironically, he was killed in 1744 by cannon accidentally fired by Friedrich the Great. (ref: Carlyle's History: killed at Prag, by a cannon-shot (at King Friedrich's hand, reconnoitring the place), 1744 -


Generation No. 2

2. MARKGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM21 VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT (ALBRECHT (ALBERT) OF20 BRANDENBURG, THE GREAT19 ELECTOR, FRIEDRICH WILLIAM BRANDENBURG, ELECTOR GEORG WILHELM OF18 BRANDENBURG, ELECTOR JOHANN SIEGMUND OF17, ELECTOR JOACHIM FRIEDRICH OF16, ELECTOR JOHANN GEORG OF15, ELECTOR JOACHIM II OF14, ELECTOR JOACHIM NESTOR OF13, ELECTOR JOHANN CICERO OF12, ELECTOR ALBRECHT ACHILLES OF11, ELECTOR FRIEDRICH I OF BRANDENBURG &10 MARGRAVE, FRIEDRICH V OF9 HOHENZOLLERN-NURNBERG, JOHANN II OF8 NURNBERG, FRIEDRICH IV OF7, FRIEDRICH III OF6, KONRAD I OF5, FRIEDRICH I OF4, FRIEDRICH3 II, FRIEDRICH I2 VON ZOLLERN, HOUSE OF1 HOHENZOLLERN, BURKARD VON ZOLORIN)5,5 was born 1701 in Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, and died April 10, 1741 in The Battle of Mollwitz (in battle).. He married UNKNOWN 1721 in Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia..

Notes for MARKGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT:
Frederick Wilhelm Brandenburg (grandson of the Great Elector, Frederick Wilhelm and father of Matthias Brandenburg) was born in the Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia. He was killed April 10, 1741 at the Battle of Mollwitz, Frederick the Great's first victory. His big battalions of Prussian-disciplined infantry defeated the Austrians even after his cavalry had been driven off the field with him included. Frederick the Great thought he had lost. He was drinking his sorrows away in a pub when he got the news of his victory which cost his kinsman Frederick Wilhelm Brandenburg's life.

Albert Friedrich, also a Margrave and second son of the Great Elector and Dorothea, who had married a Courland princess, had three sons. The first, Friedrich Wilhelm, born in 1701, was killed in action in the Battle of Mollwitz in 1741. He had three sons, Mathias, William, and Jacob, who came over to America in about 1741. They would have had their grandfather Albert's Margrave, which they may have forfeited when they left the country.

LDS microfilm, Batch F6010556, Disk # 09317, Sheets 74 thru 80, File Name: COLEMA01.GED. Submitted by Barry Ellis Coleman, 2515 E. Olive 4C, Arlington Hts, IL. 60004 (708) 870-8088.
Ref: "The Brandenburg Family" by John Frederick Brandenburg, 198

More About MARKGRAF FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT:
Born 1: August 13, 1710, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.

Children of FRIEDRICH VON BRANDENBURG-SCHWEDT and UNKNOWN are:
i. MATTHIAS22 BRANDENBURG*6, b. 1738, Brandenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia; d. November 20, 1807, Crab Orchard, Lincoln Co., KY.; m. HESTER WALGAMOT, 1764, Frederich Co, MD.; b. 1744.
Notes for MATTHIAS BRANDENBURG*:
Matthias Brandenburg, great grandson of The Great Elector, Friedrich William of Brandenburg and half second cousin to Frederick II, The Great, was named "Elector of Estates" in 1758.

Came to America with brothers William & Jacob about 1741. Jacob (who emigrated to America and became the "Maryland Brandenburgs"),
Ref: John Friederich Brandenburg, 1984
NOTE: . . . . .
BRANDENBURG

The BRANDENBURG family, which traces its origin to the province of Brandenburg, Germany. Jacob, Matthias and William Brandenburg, the founders of the American branch of the family were natives of Brandenburg, Germany, and members of a wealthy family, no doubt connected with the nobility (Rejonoy I) It is said that after the estate was confiscated by the crown it came into the possession of Prince Bismarck. During the reign of the father of the present emperor of Germany, the estate was restored to the Brandenburg family and efforts have been made to gain possession of it, but all efforts have proved unsuccessful ("History of Frederick County, Maryland", published in 1910, page 878).

Solomon (Heinrich Friedrich) Brandenburg was a citizen and resident of Prussia (now a part of Germany). A paper circularized among his descendants around 1850 by a C.S. Strasburg alleged that the estate of Solomon Brandenburg was confiscated by the Ruler of Prussia because of the religious opinions of the owner. (During the reign of Frederick I (1701-1740) and his son, Frederick II (Frederick the Great) - Prussia (1740-1763). A circular letter was sent to descendants of Solomon Brandenburg on November 23, 1888 by a J.R. Taylor requesting contributions to pay the retainer fee of attorneys in order to secure the estate.

"The History of the Pennsylvania German Pioneers ", volume 1, page 2279 lists Johannes Andonges (Anthony) Brandenburgh, a Palatine German, age 29, arriving September 30, 1740, in Philadelphia on the ship "SAMUEL & ELIZABETH", William Chilton, Commander, from Rotterdam. He qualified September 30, 1740 (took the oath of allegiance); page 4798 . . .

Wilhelm Heinrich Brandenburg who it is believed to have been a cousin or nephew, arrived on the ship "TWO BROTHERS" September 15, 1752; page 713 . . . Jacob Brandenburg came November 4, 1766 aboard the ship "SALLY", much too late to have been Johannes Andonges's brothers. The aforementioned ships were English, embarking from the port of Rotterdam, Holland and landed at Philadelphia Harbor. Most of the passengers on board were from the Palatinate section of Germany. Since only the names of the adult male passengers were included on the Ship's passenger list; his wife and minor children were not listed.

During the eighteenth century conditions were poor in the Palatinate (Germany). In the year 1709 a large colony of Palatines emigrated from Germany to the New World. They landed at New York and settled there in the Mohawk Valley. They discovered that conditions in the Valley were as bad, if not worse, than those they had left behind. By 1722 many had returned to Germany bringing with them tales of the privations they had encountered. This brought the exodus to a halt. But by 1727 Palatine Germans again decided to seek their fortunes in America. They arrived in large numbers until about the time of the Revolution. Almost all of them settled first in Pennsylvania and in the late 1700's many migrated down into the Shenandoah Valley area of Maryland and Virginia and into certain counties of North Carolina. Migration into Ohio and the midwest did not generally begin until about 1800.

It is believed Wilhelm and Jacob were born in Holland to Solomon Brandenburg who had been run out of Germany (John Friedrich Brandenburg, 1984 says Solomon was jailed in Germany) (THIS SEEMS TO BE WHERE EVERY ONE HAS GONE ASTRAY - Wilhelm Henrich had a son, . believe 7th born child .... William Henry Brandenburg Jr. was born 10/8/1758 "on water", therefore Wilhelm Henrick had to have been in Germany or Holland between January 1758 and March 1758 to have fathered this child . . . therefore Jeff Shepler's documentation hold that Wilhelm Henrick and Matthias came to America departing Rotterdam August or October 1758, arriving after the birth of William Henry Jr. 10/8/1758. From all the family stories it sounds to me like Wilhelm H., Matthias and Jacob, all three, arrived together in America. I have in our notes that "Jacob came to America with his two brothers, Matthias and William".......

I have used the documentation of Louise Myers Young about 1971, EC Brandenburg and Calvin Earl Brandenburg, 1961 that had been given to Ben Brandenburg (Dallas, Texas), WFT Vol. 16 #253, Vol. 13 #354 (Louise Myers Young) and others on WFT CD's and what I have found on the Internet.

Solomon Brandenburg's family was the ruling family of the Duchy of Baden, Prussia.

WE NEED "PROVEN DOCUMENTATION" THAT JOINS "OUR MATTHIAS BRANDENBURG" TO THE ROYAL LINE.