Sometimes referred to as simply Ludolf König in English translations, was the 20th Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order, ruling the order’s state in the Baltics from 1342 to 1345
Size 17 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
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Category Archives: Poland
Christian Garve 1742-1798
Christian Garve was one of the best-known philosophers of the late Enlightenment along with Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn.
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Elizabeth Granowska 1372-1420 Queen consort of Poland
Elizabeth Granowska or Elisabeth Pilecki was Queen consort of Poland as the third wife of Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland
Size 17.5 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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Maria Josepha of Austria Queen of Poland 1699-1757
Maria Josepha of Austria was the Queen of Poland by marriage to Augustus III. From 1711 to 1717, she was heir presumptive to the Habsburg Empire. Her sister Maria Amalia became Electress of Bavaria.
Artist: Johann Christian Leopold Size 19 x 29.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless 1711-1750
Countess Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless was born in Żary 1711 to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and Princess Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels. Her mother was a daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.
In 1732 she married Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary, becoming the princess consort of Anhalt-Köthen. Her husband was previously married to her elder sister, Emilie of Promnitz-Pless, who had died earlier that year.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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King Frederick II and Joseph II in Neisse 1769
The meeting of Emperor Joseph II with King Frederick II in the encampment at Nysa, Poland. Maria Theresa’s son Archduke Joseph, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1765, admired the enlightened monarch Frederick for his military, administrative and economic successes and from 1766 tried to meet him. After initial resistance from Maria Theresa, the encounter took place in 1769 in the residential town of Neisse, near the border, where Frederick was staying for military maneuvers. Joseph, as Count von Falkenstein, arrived in Neisse around noon on August 25 and went straight to the prince-bishop’s palace, where Frederick received him. The encounter was attended by senior nobles and military officials from both sides.
Artist: P.C.Geisler
Size 12 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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Michael Friedrich von Althann 1680-1734
Michael Friedrich Graf von Althann ( 1680, Glatz, Prussia (now Kłodzko, Poland) – 20 June 1734, Waitzen, Habsburg monarchy (now Vác, Hungary)) was a Holy Roman clergyman and politician who was the bishop of Vác (or Waitzen) and former viceroy to the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
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