I'm sure someone did a map for 1740 to 1786 Fritz movements as well, somewhere, long before the digital age, given how obsessed with him the 19th and first half of the 20th century was. The trick, of course, is how to find it! If I come across a version, I will point you its way.
Have now arrived in my audio re-hearing at the big estrangement phase. Turns out that while I had remembered the Marwitz marriage drama and the Maria Theresia meeting drama, I had forgotten there was also Würtemberg marriage drama at the start and in between Marwitz and Maria Theresia there was Erlangen journalist drama, all adding to their growing distance, with the MT meeting just as final culminating event. The Würtemberg stuff were mostly misunderstandings. Context: Fritz wanted Wilhelmine's daughter (at that time 11 years) to marry Karl Eugen, future Duke of Würtemberg, who together with his brother was growing up at his court, as part of his anti-Habsburg policy of aligning as many of the other German principalities as he could with Prussia. The boy's mother wanted to get the boy back under her own supervision in Würtemberg. Fritz saw this as potential conspiracy to not follow through with the marriage and make an alternate match. Wilhelmine was unsure whether or not to look for potential other matches for her daughter or bank it all on the Würtemberg match. (Not least because she could tell a tale about being told you were to marry someone from early age only for it not to happen.) The widowed Duchess wanted control of her sons. (Spoiler: Karl Eugen and Wilhelmine's daughter, who according to Casanova was the most beautiful princess in Europe, got married when the girl was 16. It was such an unhappy marriage that she moved back to her parents in Bayreuth, where she's buried. Karl Eugen bankrupted Würtemberg with his pomp and his mistresses and makes into literary history by being the Duke who banished young Schiller from his realm. cahn, remember that scene from Kabale und Liebe I translated for you where Lady Milford, Mistress of Not Named Duke Who IS Totally Not Karl Eugen, gets jewelry paid for by soldiers sold to fight in the American Wars and the old servant delivering said jewels is the father of one of the gangpressed soldiers, describing how anyone resisting gangpressing was shot, the scene which English wiki bewilderingly describes as "anti-British satire"?)
The Erlangen journalist bit went thusly: Ulrike, writing from Sweden during the second Silesian War: Dear brother, are you aware not one but several articles describing you as a war mongerer and Prussia as the villain have appeared in a newspaper printed in Erlangen? Erlangen, small Franconian town ruled by... who was it again? Hmmmm????
Fritz: I can't believe the Margrave and you are standing by while I get slandered repeatedly by an Erlangen journalist, Wilhelmine.
Wilhelmine: As if the Margrave and I read German newspapers. I am, of course, horrified. The man shall be arrested at once!
Fritz: Okay, I've just recalled I'm an enlightened monarch. The journalist doesn't have to stay in your prison, just make sure his stuff never gets printed again, and we're good.
Wihelmine: Good to know you're not insisting on his imprisonment, because he's mysteriously disappeared when the order for his arrest went out. I trust we'll never hear from him again.
Fritz: *says nothing now, but will bring it up later in his big "how you betrayed me, let me count the ways" letter, at which point it's "and then the Margrave and you let that bastard who slandered me escape"
The MT business: now during the first Silesian War, Wilhelmine is a brother-admiring loyalist who when MT's mother (who happened to be a Brunswick, i.e. Elisabeth Christine's aunt, for all the good that did), wrote her a letter asking for her mediation promptly forwards said letter to Fritz while saying "as if I would interfere, this is just for your amusement, they're so doomed with you against them". During the break between Silesian Wars, there's a cryptic exchange along the notes of Fritz mentioning "The Queen of Hungary, whom you admire so much" and Wilhelmine retorting defensively "I don't admire her at all, I just fairly acknowledge she has her strengths". During the Second Silesian war, when the Wittelsbach Emperor dies and MT gets the German princes (other than Prussia and one or two others) to vote for her husband Franz Stefan as next Emperor, MT travels to Frankfurt for Franz Stefan's coronation and on that occasion makes her fateful Bayreuth visit. (Wilhelmine: IT WAS JUST LUNCH! THE ONE TIME! WE ONLY HAD LUNCH!" (Literal quote: "She was served lunch, and I attended as politeness demanded"). This explanation comes in reply to Fritz' delayed "the reasons you suck" outburst, mind, not immediately after it happened. The letter building up to his big outburst says: "Since you care so much about the Queen of Hungary, it may please you to know I've made peace with her" (with MT accepting Prussia's ownership of Silesia and Fritz accepting Franz Stefan as Emperor and hence MT as Empress), Wilhelmine makes the mistake of writing back "how wonderful and befitting your greatness is this peace making, I dare say it will contribute even more to your glory than your earlier victories" and THEN Fritz cuts loose.
It has to be said, though, MT isn't the most reviled woman in the estrangement years. That's the quondam Countess of Marwitz and married Countess of Burghausen, Wilhelmine's (ex-)friend who became her husband's mistress and whom she married off to an Austrian. Fritz seems to have clued into Marwitz having an affair with the Margrave before Wilhelmine did which leads to this:
F: Why are you defending Marwitz? She's the worst! A Medea, a vile excrement of humanity! You are exactly like a cuckold who learns the truth only after everyone else has already found out. W: Marwitz isn't dominating me, if that's what you mean. You should know I'm mistress of my own actions and am not likely to be manipulated by a courtier. F: You being dominated by Marwitz was not what I meant!
(I don't get why he calls Marwitz "Medea", though, because it's really the wrong classical reference. Even if he's not associating child murder but Medea as a sorceress.)
On a more fun note, my checking out individual letters from Wilhelmine's France & Italy travel correspondance years post reconciliation let me discover that she and Fritz were "Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?" geeks. So when she's travelling along the Cote d'Azure (having lunch in "a little town named Cannes"), she's visiting the Island St. Marguerite where the Man in the Iron Mask was supposedly kept, visits his cell and interviews people who swear their parents interacted with him. And gets this bit of sensational news: "(Feri) and others who saw him say that they believe it was a woman, that he had tiny and smallboned hands, and that the skin was very smooth and soft, despite being a bit bronze." The woman in the Iron Mask! That's a new one for me. Wilhelmine finishes her interview report to Fritz by saying the common most featured theories are that it was either the Comte de Vermandois (illegitimate son of Henri IV, i.e. Louis XIV bastard uncle, literally) or "the first Dauphine", by which she means this lady.
Re: Prussian sibling correspondance
Have now arrived in my audio re-hearing at the big estrangement phase. Turns out that while I had remembered the Marwitz marriage drama and the Maria Theresia meeting drama, I had forgotten there was also Würtemberg marriage drama at the start and in between Marwitz and Maria Theresia there was Erlangen journalist drama, all adding to their growing distance, with the MT meeting just as final culminating event. The Würtemberg stuff were mostly misunderstandings. Context: Fritz wanted Wilhelmine's daughter (at that time 11 years) to marry Karl Eugen, future Duke of Würtemberg, who together with his brother was growing up at his court, as part of his anti-Habsburg policy of aligning as many of the other German principalities as he could with Prussia. The boy's mother wanted to get the boy back under her own supervision in Würtemberg. Fritz saw this as potential conspiracy to not follow through with the marriage and make an alternate match. Wilhelmine was unsure whether or not to look for potential other matches for her daughter or bank it all on the Würtemberg match. (Not least because she could tell a tale about being told you were to marry someone from early age only for it not to happen.) The widowed Duchess wanted control of her sons. (Spoiler: Karl Eugen and Wilhelmine's daughter, who according to Casanova was the most beautiful princess in Europe, got married when the girl was 16. It was such an unhappy marriage that she moved back to her parents in Bayreuth, where she's buried. Karl Eugen bankrupted Würtemberg with his pomp and his mistresses and makes into literary history by being the Duke who banished young Schiller from his realm.
The Erlangen journalist bit went thusly:
Ulrike, writing from Sweden during the second Silesian War: Dear brother, are you aware not one but several articles describing you as a war mongerer and Prussia as the villain have appeared in a newspaper printed in Erlangen? Erlangen, small Franconian town ruled by... who was it again? Hmmmm????
Fritz: I can't believe the Margrave and you are standing by while I get slandered repeatedly by an Erlangen journalist, Wilhelmine.
Wilhelmine: As if the Margrave and I read German newspapers. I am, of course, horrified. The man shall be arrested at once!
Fritz: Okay, I've just recalled I'm an enlightened monarch. The journalist doesn't have to stay in your prison, just make sure his stuff never gets printed again, and we're good.
Wihelmine: Good to know you're not insisting on his imprisonment, because he's mysteriously disappeared when the order for his arrest went out. I trust we'll never hear from him again.
Fritz: *says nothing now, but will bring it up later in his big "how you betrayed me, let me count the ways" letter, at which point it's "and then the Margrave and you let that bastard who slandered me escape"
The MT business: now during the first Silesian War, Wilhelmine is a brother-admiring loyalist who when MT's mother (who happened to be a Brunswick, i.e. Elisabeth Christine's aunt, for all the good that did), wrote her a letter asking for her mediation promptly forwards said letter to Fritz while saying "as if I would interfere, this is just for your amusement, they're so doomed with you against them". During the break between Silesian Wars, there's a cryptic exchange along the notes of Fritz mentioning "The Queen of Hungary, whom you admire so much" and Wilhelmine retorting defensively "I don't admire her at all, I just fairly acknowledge she has her strengths". During the Second Silesian war, when the Wittelsbach Emperor dies and MT gets the German princes (other than Prussia and one or two others) to vote for her husband Franz Stefan as next Emperor, MT travels to Frankfurt for Franz Stefan's coronation and on that occasion makes her fateful Bayreuth visit. (Wilhelmine: IT WAS JUST LUNCH! THE ONE TIME! WE ONLY HAD LUNCH!" (Literal quote: "She was served lunch, and I attended as politeness demanded"). This explanation comes in reply to Fritz' delayed "the reasons you suck" outburst, mind, not immediately after it happened. The letter building up to his big outburst says: "Since you care so much about the Queen of Hungary, it may please you to know I've made peace with her" (with MT accepting Prussia's ownership of Silesia and Fritz accepting Franz Stefan as Emperor and hence MT as Empress), Wilhelmine makes the mistake of writing back "how wonderful and befitting your greatness is this peace making, I dare say it will contribute even more to your glory than your earlier victories" and THEN Fritz cuts loose.
It has to be said, though, MT isn't the most reviled woman in the estrangement years. That's the quondam Countess of Marwitz and married Countess of Burghausen, Wilhelmine's (ex-)friend who became her husband's mistress and whom she married off to an Austrian. Fritz seems to have clued into Marwitz having an affair with the Margrave before Wilhelmine did which leads to this:
F: Why are you defending Marwitz? She's the worst! A Medea, a vile excrement of humanity! You are exactly like a cuckold who learns the truth only after everyone else has already found out.
W: Marwitz isn't dominating me, if that's what you mean. You should know I'm mistress of my own actions and am not likely to be manipulated by a courtier.
F: You being dominated by Marwitz was not what I meant!
(I don't get why he calls Marwitz "Medea", though, because it's really the wrong classical reference. Even if he's not associating child murder but Medea as a sorceress.)
On a more fun note, my checking out individual letters from Wilhelmine's France & Italy travel correspondance years post reconciliation let me discover that she and Fritz were "Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?" geeks. So when she's travelling along the Cote d'Azure (having lunch in "a little town named Cannes"), she's visiting the Island St. Marguerite where the Man in the Iron Mask was supposedly kept, visits his cell and interviews people who swear their parents interacted with him. And gets this bit of sensational news: "(Feri) and others who saw him say that they believe it was a woman, that he had tiny and smallboned hands, and that the skin was very smooth and soft, despite being a bit bronze." The woman in the Iron Mask! That's a new one for me. Wilhelmine finishes her interview report to Fritz by saying the common most featured theories are that it was either the Comte de Vermandois (illegitimate son of Henri IV, i.e. Louis XIV bastard uncle, literally) or "the first Dauphine", by which she means this lady.
This is the letter, and here the German translation.