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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Electors (was Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143002.5218@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:30:02 GMT
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- In article <By5r3F.FDH@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.154529.8881@nntp.hut.fi> c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen) writes:
- >>
- >>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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- I thought there were nine: those cited, plus the elector of Brandenburg and
- the elector of Hanover. The former title was in the Hohenzollern family.
- I think Tuomas meant that the Grand Master was Albrecht of Hohenzollern,
- who also happened to be elector of Brandenburg.
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- Francois Velde
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