18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Mecklenburg

[mildred_of_midgard]

I remembered that I had a book on Mecklenburg and Duke Karl Leopold's attempt to impose absolutism on his nobles. Sure enough, 1717, September 23, he locks down the border against nobles fleeing, in an effort to keep their property.

Given that the imperial execution was placed on him that year and shortly thereafter he had to leave the country, at which point FW and G1, followed by FW and G2, started wrangling over who should occupy Mecklenburg in his absence, that might not have been enforced after 1717, but it does show that he tried!