Coat of arms of Brandenburg

This article is about the coat of arms of the German state of Brandenburg. Image File history File links Brandenburg_Wappen. ... Image File history File links Brandenburg_Wappen. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...

History

According to tradition, the Märkischer Adler, or red eagle of the Mark Brandenburg, was adopted by Margrave Gero in the 10th century. Gustav A. Seyler states that the Ascanian Albert the Bear was the originator.^[1] He divided his territory among his children, thereby creating the territories which would later become Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Meissen. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Margrave Gero (born circa 900, died 965) was Margrave of the Ostmark. ... The Ascanian dynasty of the rulers of Brandenburg began with Albert the Bear who inherited the territory from its last Wendish ruler, Pribislav, in 1150. ... Albert I (c. ... Anhalt is a historical region of Germany, which is now included in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... Meißen, with the Albrechtsburg and the Cathedral of Sts. ...

The Mark Brandenburg, known as the Holy Roman Empire's 'sandbox' (Streusandbüchse), was bought in 1415 by Burggrave Frederick VI of Nuremberg of the House of Hohenzollern. The Hohenzollerns made the poor marshes and woodlands over the centuries the nucleus of a powerful state. The Holy Roman Empire and from the 16th century on also The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ... Frederick (German: Friedrich) I (1371–1440), Burgrave of Nuremberg as Frederick VI and Margrave of Brandenburg as Frederick I from the House of Hohenzollern. ... The House of Hohenzollern is a German dynasty of electors, kings, and emperors of Prussia, Germany, and Romania. ...

After being formally enfeoffed as Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg, he quartered the arms of Hohenzollern (quarterly black and white) and the burgravate of Nuremberg (a black lion in gold in a red and silver border) with the Brandenburg red eagle. The blue escutcheon with the golden sceptre as symbol of the office of archchamberlain (Erzkämmerer) of the Empire was added under Frederick II (1440-70). The prince-electors or electoral princes of the Holy Roman Empire — German: Kurfürst (singular) Kurfürsten (plural) — were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the Emperors of Germany. ... Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into not more than four equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. ... Burg Hohenzollern Burg Hohenzollern is a castle in the rough vicinity of Stuttgart, Germany. ... Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom displayed an inescutcheon of the arms of Hanover between 1801 and 1837 when the British monarch held the title of King of Hanover. ... Frederick II the Iron (sometimes Irontooth) (1413-1470) of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave of Brandenburg, from 1440 until his abdication in 1470. ...

In December 1470, Emperor Frederick III gave the duchies of Pomerania (red griffin in white), Kashubia (black griffin in gold), Stettin (Szczecin) (red griffin in blue) and Wenden (griffin striped green and red) in liege to the electors of Brandenburg, making them in turn the lords of the dukes of Western Pomerania.^{[citation needed]} Quarters and helmcrest of these duchies and the Principality of Rügen (parted horizontaly, a black lion in gold and a wall of bricks in red and blue), however, were incorporated in the Brandenburg arms. Detail of Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III by Pinturicchio (1454-1513) Frederick III of Habsburg (Innsbruck, September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 in Linz) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440. ... Coat of arms of the Duchy of Pommerania Historic Pomerania (outlined in yellow) on the background of modern country borders. ... Kashubians (also Kassubians, or Cassubians, in Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. ... Szczecin (pronounce: ; German: ; Kashubian/Pomeranian: Sztetëno; Latin: Stetinum or Scecinum, also Sedinum) is the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodship in Poland. ... Historic Western Pomerania (outlined in yellow) Western Pomerania (also West Pomerania, Polish: , German: ), is a geographical and historical region in the west of Pomerania in northern Poland and Germany. ... Map of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania highlighting the district Rügen Rügen (Polish: Rugia) is an island located off the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Baltic Sea. ...

Elector John Sigismund in (1572-1619) inherited the Duchy of Prussia outside the Holy Roman Empire on the Baltic Sea in 1618. In 1609 John Sigismund's wife had inherited rights to Cleves (in red a silver shield, over all a golden grid), Mark (in gold a bar chequered in red and white), Jülich (black lion in gold) and Berg (red lion in white) in the Rhineland. A compromise over them with the House of Wittelsbach (Palatinate-Neuburg), giving Brandenburg only Cleves and Mark, was reached in 1614 but the arms of the other principalities were put in nevertheless. John or Johann Sigismund Hohenzollern (1572-1619) succeeded his father Joachim Friedrich as margrave of Brandenburg and duke of Ducal Prussia in 1608. ... The Prussian Tribute, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1882, 388 x 875 cm, National Museum in Kraków. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. ... The Duchy of Cleves (Herzogtum Kleve) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in present Germany (part of North Rhine-Westphalia) and the Netherlands (parts of Limburg, Noord-Brabant and Gelderland). ... Mark was a medieval territory in todays North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Jülich is a medium-size town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Germany. ... Map of the duchies of Jülich, Cleves, and Berg circa 1477 Berg was a medieval territory in todays North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany, although some consider the lands to the east of the river culturally distinct, jovially referring to them as Schäl Sick; the bad or wrong side... The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. ... Castle of Neuburg Palatinate-Neuburg (German: ) was a in 1505 originated part of the Holy Roman Empire with the capital in Neuburg an der Donau. ...

Arms of Brandenburg in 1686

The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought Brandenburg the former prince-bishoprics of Magdeburg (parted in red and white), Halberstadt (parted white and red), Minden (two keys in red) and Cammin (a silver anchored cross). Rügen and part of Pomerania, however, had to be given up to Sweden. It was around this time to that Elector Frederick William (1620-88), called the "Great Elector", adopted the Pomeranian "wild man" as supporters of his arms. He also placed the outer helmets over the heads of the supporters. The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster by Gerard Terborch (1648) Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1648 The Peace of Westphalia, also known as the Treaties of Münster and Osnabrück, refers to the... Prince-Bishop was the title given bishops who held secular powers, beside their inherent clerical power. ... The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire lying around Magdeburg along the Elbe River. ... The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese from 804 until 1648 and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages until around 1800. ... Minden is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... KamieÅ„ Pomorski (Kaszubian/Pomeranian: Kamién, German: Kammin or Cammin) is a town in the far northwest of Poland in the West-Pomeranian Voivodship. ... Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg. ...

When the Duchy of Prussia gained full sovereignty from Poland in the Treaty of Wehlau on 19 September 1657, the electoral cap, which had until then crowned the smaller versions of the arms on coins, was adorned with bows as in a ducal crown. Elector Frederick III changed the arms substantially when he took the title Frederick I, "King in Prussia", on 18 January 1701. The Prussian Tribute, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1882, 388 x 875 cm, National Museum in Kraków. ... The Treaty of Welawa was a political act signed in the Prussian town of Welawa (German Wehlau) between Poland and Brandenburg-Prussia during the Swedish Deluge on September 9, 1657. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Friedrich I of Prussia, Kurfürst of Brandenburg, King in Russia (Fredrick I, July 11, 1857 -- February 25, 1913), Hohenzollern, was the first King in Prussia, reigning from January 18, 2001, until his death. ... It is the little word in that makes the title King in Prussia (German König in Preussen) an extraordinary one. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ...

References

See also

• Coat of arms of Prussia
• Coat of arms of Germany