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- From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
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- References: <1992Nov12.234327.11358@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BxsD1s.3tE@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Nov22.154529.8881@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:21:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.154529.8881@nntp.hut.fi> c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen) writes:
- >
- >To make things even more confused, the Kingdom of Prussia was, indeed, never
- >a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but its direct predecessor was. Prussia
- >was formed from the remnants of the Ordenstaat des Deutsche Ordens (the Baltic
- >state of the Teutonic Knights) as it collapsed during the 1560's, and the
- >last Hochmeister, Konrad von Hohenzollern, turned the Ordenstaat into his own
- >hereditary duchy as the Duchy of Prussia. It became an independent kingdom
- >during the 17th century. To remember, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- >was one of the elector princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
-
- Oh? I thought they were seven: the archbishops of Trier, Cologne and
- Mainz; and the princes of Bavaria, Bohemia, Saxony and Hesse. Certainly I
- never heard that the Grand Master was an elector.
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