Prussia's First King | Frederick I, King IN Prussia (1688-1713) | HoP #8

Last week we have seen the Great Elector’s 48-year reign. It was marked by war and struggle, but it ensured the future generations of House Hohenzollern of one very important certainty: sovereignty over Ducal Prussia. This week his son, Frederick III, makes work of the potential bestowed upon him. After succeeding his father as elector of Brandenburg in 1688, he embarked on a painstaking process of diplomacy and negotiations. Eventually, his efforts would be rewarded with the first royal title of the Hohenzollern family. Through diplomacy, he had achieved what his father, quite literally, fought towards all his life. Frederick III would become known as the first King in Prussia. Welcome to the complete History of Prussia.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Frederick III (1657-1713) Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia
4:08 Holy Roman Empire and its Kings
9:11 An Incredible Coronation
11:22 A Royal Hohenzollern
15:29 Was it worth it?
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Now, in order to understand how an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire would be able to crown himself King, we have to go back to the Treaty of Westphalia, by this point signed half a century ago. The conditions of the treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War curtailed, if not destroyed, the power of the Holy Roman Emperor. The prestige of the office had eroded. German princes virtually became sovereigns of their own estates and they certainly felt like it. Yet it was forbidden for anyone to hold the title of King within the Empire - the Empire and Emperor still existed and it would be an unwise provocation that would certainly warrant a military response if an Elector suddenly crowned himself king within the empire. As a matter of fact, it was not until Napoleonic times, a century later, that the Kings of Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg came into existence, and their ascension to the throne signalled the real end of Empire. During this time, within the Holy Roman empire only two royal titles were permitted: that of King of the Romans (held by the Emperor) and King of Bohemia.
But some Electors of the Empire were Kings… of territories outside of the empire. They made use of a loophole, so to say. Royal crowns of foreign territories were acquired in order to boost the prestige of a House. For example, Augustus II “the Strong” of House Wettin was Elector of Saxony but became King of Poland in 1697 when he was elected as such.
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Sources:
Clark, C. M. (2006). Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Harvard University Press.
Clark, C. (2009). Kaiser Wilhelm II: a life in power. Penguin UK.
Clark, C. (2016). Fathers and Sons in the History of the Hohenzollern Dynasty. In Sons and Heirs (pp. 19-37). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Friedrich, Karin (2012). Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466-1806: The Rise of a Composite State. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Koch, H. W. (2014). A history of Prussia. Routledge.
Pflanze, O. (2008). Bismarck: Der Reichskanzler (Vol. 2). CH Beck.
Steinberg, J. (2011). Bismarck: a life. OUP Oxford.
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That Frederick was King IN Prussia rather than King OF Prussia reminds me of Mary Stuart, who was Queen of SCOTS (rather than Queen of SCOTLAND). I've never known the reason for the distinction in her case - after all, her father had been King of Scotland. I assume there must have been resistance by the notoriously fractious Scottish nobles, who were always trying to whittle away royal power in that unhappy land, and who resented the de Guises, her mother's powerful French family. Was her title, too, the result of compromise?

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[@edwinsparda7622]

Correct me if im wrong but didnt ducal prussia have some sovereignty? not full sovereignty since it was a fief to Poland? And obtained full sovereignty in the treaty of Wehlau? Ducal prussia was fully sovereign (but not royal prussia, later west prussia) during the coronation. History sure is interesting and at times, complicated.

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[@amtmannb.4627]

I think that a lot of modern opinions about Frederick I. came from his son and grandson and both hated him although both benefited from his policy. Frederick I. was a brave men sharing the first campaign when he became elector although he was unable to walk. We have to give him kredit, that no one ever loved him except his first wife. His fear become poisoned is plausible because his first wife most probably was poisoned. His second wife maybe was a clever intelligent and well educated lady but a bad queen as she mocked her husband. Frederick's greatest faults are to be explained by his hard life. He mistrusted his most influential Danckelmann - maybe because Danckelmann showed little concern about his subervience under his ruler.

[@madraven07]

"the battle waged on" not idiomatic. Perhaps you meant "the battle raged on"

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[@purmanundvykass4364]

friedrick the second has a terrible father but his grandfather is not bad also friedrick the first had a ok father but his father like his silbings