No citation! From the same guy who said the 1722 political testament specifies his heir should try to get Silesia.
Ha. Yeah, no. I mean, there's certainly evidence FW was pissed off at the lack of imperial support re: Jülich and Berg, but I don't recall any prophecies of avenging sons in the books I've read. Now Maybe there are some documents proving just this, but McDonogh's brazen Invention re: what is and isn't in the Political Testament doesn't inspire me with confidence. Especially what is in the Testament is a stern warning to his successors that wars of aggression are of the Evil.
Sophia Charlotte's crack about F1: sounds vaguely familiar, I think Crown Prince Fritz might have included it in a Voltaire letter as part of dissing Granddad and talking up Dad.
I wonder if MacDonogh has got George and FW mixed up, since he likes to mix people up. Or maybe George started it, and FW finished it?
Well, George was older. And may have made a taunt? Still, all the other mentions of this I've seen name little FW as the aggressor (and winner of the fight). Though given the personalities involved, I could believe it of either.
Schwedt brothers: have seen referred them to both as "rowdy", but don't recall any negative stories about Karl as opposed to older Schwedt, either, so I'm opting for confusion. The married-to-Sophie one provoked even our Lehndorff into saying the one thing he did right was the timing of his death, because he died when the court was already in mourning (for Ulrike's husband, I think), and thus didn't have to go to additional expenses for the Mad Margrave.
I'm not entirely sure Caesarion counts as an emperor
He doesn't. At best, he counts as a Pharao, since I think Cleopatra made her son nominal co-regent after her other nominal co-regent, the younger brother (not the one she'd been at war with) had died. Also, McDonogh proves he's bad at German, because that name is such a simple, literal pun and translation. Caesarion = little Caesar. Old fashioned German has the -ling as a miminutive form. As in "Däumling", for example. Keyserling = Kaiserling (in modern spelling) = little Caesar. Tolkien would never have made that mistake, because Saxon English does a similar thing. The younger members of Alfred the Greath's family = Aethelings.
It had twelve members, including Frederick’s brothers William and Henry and, uncharacteristically, his sister Charlotte
That is interesting, if true. Not least because it would indicate either AW or Heinrich could have visited Fritz at Rheinsberg. Otoh, Charlotte married the Duke of Braunschweig in 1733, simultanous to the Fritz/EC marriage, and her and the Duke showing up at Rheinsberg is far more likely.
Bielfeld: forgot to say, Hamilton called Bielfeld unreliable on account on him supposedly writing this letters from Rheinsberg years later, not during - some crack about "them having had no earthly recipient" - , but it might just be snobbery because Bielfeld also gets dissed as a jumped up bourgois among nobles by him.
Will comment on all the other goodness as well, must dash, I'm with the AP's right now, very limited online time!
Re: MacDonogh Reread I
Ha. Yeah, no. I mean, there's certainly evidence FW was pissed off at the lack of imperial support re: Jülich and Berg, but I don't recall any prophecies of avenging sons in the books I've read. Now Maybe there are some documents proving just this, but McDonogh's brazen Invention re: what is and isn't in the Political Testament doesn't inspire me with confidence. Especially what is in the Testament is a stern warning to his successors that wars of aggression are of the Evil.
Sophia Charlotte's crack about F1: sounds vaguely familiar, I think Crown Prince Fritz might have included it in a Voltaire letter as part of dissing Granddad and talking up Dad.
I wonder if MacDonogh has got George and FW mixed up, since he likes to mix people up. Or maybe George started it, and FW finished it?
Well, George was older. And may have made a taunt? Still, all the other mentions of this I've seen name little FW as the aggressor (and winner of the fight). Though given the personalities involved, I could believe it of either.
Schwedt brothers: have seen referred them to both as "rowdy", but don't recall any negative stories about Karl as opposed to older Schwedt, either, so I'm opting for confusion. The married-to-Sophie one provoked even our Lehndorff into saying the one thing he did right was the timing of his death, because he died when the court was already in mourning (for Ulrike's husband, I think), and thus didn't have to go to additional expenses for the Mad Margrave.
I'm not entirely sure Caesarion counts as an emperor
He doesn't. At best, he counts as a Pharao, since I think Cleopatra made her son nominal co-regent after her other nominal co-regent, the younger brother (not the one she'd been at war with) had died. Also, McDonogh proves he's bad at German, because that name is such a simple, literal pun and translation. Caesarion = little Caesar. Old fashioned German has the -ling as a miminutive form. As in "Däumling", for example. Keyserling = Kaiserling (in modern spelling) = little Caesar. Tolkien would never have made that mistake, because Saxon English does a similar thing. The younger members of Alfred the Greath's family = Aethelings.
It had twelve members, including Frederick’s brothers William and Henry and, uncharacteristically, his sister Charlotte
That is interesting, if true. Not least because it would indicate either AW or Heinrich could have visited Fritz at Rheinsberg. Otoh, Charlotte married the Duke of Braunschweig in 1733, simultanous to the Fritz/EC marriage, and her and the Duke showing up at Rheinsberg is far more likely.
Bielfeld: forgot to say, Hamilton called Bielfeld unreliable on account on him supposedly writing this letters from Rheinsberg years later, not during - some crack about "them having had no earthly recipient" - , but it might just be snobbery because Bielfeld also gets dissed as a jumped up bourgois among nobles by him.
Will comment on all the other goodness as well, must dash, I'm with the AP's right now, very limited online time!