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George II as Prince of Wales. 1683-1760

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Maximilian I Duke of Bavaria 1573-1651

Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years’ War during which he obtained the title of a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg.
Artist: Johann Alexander Böner
Date:
Size 16 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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Georg Ulrich Graf von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg 1598-1663

Georg Ulrich von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck came from the Tyrolean noble family of Wolkenstein-Rodeneck and was born the son of Baron Sigmund von Wolkenstein (died March 18, 1624) and his wife Anna Helena von Firmian. Abbess Claudia Seraphica von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck (1625–1688) was his cousin. He owned Bruck Castle in East Tyrol, which he sold to Archduke Ferdinand Karl in 1642.
German canon and envoy to the Peace Congress of Westphalia, the Frankfurt Deputation Day (1643–1645), and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg in 1653.
Engraver: Matthäus Merian
Size 16 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym 1669-1727

Lebrecht was the younger son of Prince Viktor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg (1634–1718) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1642–1677), daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich of Zweibrücken. Lebrecht received a careful education, which concluded with the Grand Tour. In 1683 he took part in the Great Turkish War together with Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau. In 1689 the raised Anhalt troops became imperial property, and with them Lebrecht also moved into imperial and later Hessian service. He fought in Hungary and on the Rhine.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Princess Cecilie of Baden 1839-1891

Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna of Russia, born Princess Cäcilie of Baden, was the youngest daughter of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and Sophie Wilhelmine of Sweden. She received a strict education at the court of Baden in Karlsruhe, becoming a cultured woman.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00

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