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For financial safeguarding of her sons, she later also purchased the Lordship of Wildenbruch and further estates. Upon the death of his mother in 1689, Philipp William and his brothers inherited a vast territory including three towns, three castles, 33 villages, and 24 farmsteads. In 1692 he came to
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After Frederick Henry's death in 1788, the male line of Brandenburg-Schwedt became extinct and their appanage territories reverted to the King of Prussia. For a few years, beginning in 1794, the castle of Schwedt was the residence of King
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in 1692, obtained a considerable severance payment and the title of a "Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt"; intensively cultivating his dominions and furnishing his castle in a
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since 1701) he ruled his dominions from 1731 onwards and began to develop Schwedt into a country seat for the cadet line. In 1734 he had married his cousin Princess
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in the Spring of 1686. By the end of the 18th century, the Uckermark, with an area of 44 km², was the largest coherent tobacco-producing region in the
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castle at Schwedt, which had been devastated in the Thirty Years' War, as well as to the economic development of the town and its surroundings.
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The brisk building activity was continued by Philipp William's son and successor, Margrave
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noble Gustav Adolf von (Varrensback, Varensbeke) for the sum 25,000
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Because of a lack of money in the late days of the disastrous
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Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
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as a widow. The youngest of Dorothea's sons was Margrave
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Dorothea dedicated herself to the reconstruction of the
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noblewoman Caterina di Balbiano, who called herself
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Index

Margraves of Brandenburg-Schwedt

secundogeniture
Hohenzollern
Brandenburg
Philip William
Schwedt
appanage
Vierraden
Oder
Uckermark
Neumark
Wildenbruch
Pomerania
Poland
Imperial immediacy
Thirty Years' War
Frederick William of Brandenburg
Baltic German
Thalers
Sophia Dorothea
Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Renaissance
Dutch
Huguenots
tobacco
Holy Roman Empire
Frederick III
Baroque
Albert Frederick

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