Frederick William
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The name Frederick William usually refers to several monarchs and princes of the Hohenzollern dynasty:
  • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
    Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
    |align=right|Frederick William was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia – and thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia – from 1640 until his death. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as the "Great Elector" because of his military and political prowess...

     (1620-1688)
  • Frederick William I
    Frederick William I of Prussia
    Frederick William I of the House of Hohenzollern, was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death...

     (1688-1740), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William II
    Frederick William II of Prussia
    Frederick William II was the King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. He was in personal union the Prince-Elector of Brandenburg and the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel.-Early life:...

     (1744-1797), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William III
    Frederick William III of Prussia
    Frederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...

     (1770-1840), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William IV
    Frederick William IV of Prussia
    |align=right|Upon his accession, he toned down the reactionary policies enacted by his father, easing press censorship and promising to enact a constitution at some point, but he refused to enact a popular legislative assembly, preferring to work with the aristocracy through "united committees" of...

     (1795-1861), King of Prussia
  • Frederick III, German Emperor
    Frederick III, German Emperor
    Frederick III was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors. Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl known informally as Fritz, was the only son of Emperor William I and was raised in his family's tradition of military service...

     (1831-1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia. He was known as Frederick William when he was Crown Prince.
  • Prince Frederick William
    Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia
    Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was a member of the House of Hohenzollern, great-grandson of Frederick William III of Prussia.-Early life and education:...

     (1880-1925), son of Prince Albert of Prussia and great-grandson of Frederick William III.


Other nobility with the name Frederick William are:
  • Frederick William von Steuben (1730-1794), Prussian officer in the American Revolutionary War
  • Frederick William von Hessenstein
    Frederick William von Hessenstein
    Frederick William, Prince von Hessenstein , was a Swedish soldier and statesman. He was an extramarital son of King Frederick of Sweden and his mistress Hedvig Taube.-Biography:...

     (1735-1808), Swedish statesman and soldier
  • Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (1769-1859)
  • Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1771-1815)
  • Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1961)
  • Frederick William Mulley (1918-1995), British politician and economist
  • Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750–1765), son of Frederick, Prince of Wales


Other uses:
  • Frederick William University (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität), an older name of the Humboldt University of Berlin
    Humboldt University of Berlin
    The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

  • Mount Frederick William
    Mount Frederick William
    Mount Frederick William is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia Canada...

    , Jervis Inlet region, British Columbia, Canada

See also

  • Frederick William I (disambiguation)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (disambiguation)
  • Frederick Williams (disambiguation)
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