18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Re: Old Mark nobility

[mildred_of_midgard]

compared to the Welfs

I know, I was reading up on them recently! (When I was trying that Henry the Lion bio, which I still haven't finished.) I was amazed that they were so old that they were doing interesting things in the poorly attested periods of the Middle Ages when most families just get a passing "acquired some forestry rights on some piece of land" mention, making it really easy to write boring history.

German nobility: I need to find the passage, because I got this from somewhere. Horowski? Anyway, I don't know exactly what the difference is, but my impression was that while a German noble is very different from a German commoner, a German noble should not show up at Versailles and expect to be given the same treatment as their French noble equivalent.

The French royals very much cared about your foreign bloodlines, though; that's why young Elizaveta, quasi-illegitimate daughter of a Lithuanian peasant, was not considered eligible marriage material for the French royal family, no matter who her father was.