Brief Life History of Frederick I
When Frederick I von Hohenzollern was born on 8 May 1460, in Ansbach, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Albrecht III Achilles von Brandenburg Hohenzollern, was 45 and his mother, Anna von Sachsen Wettin, was 23. He married Sophia Jagiellonka von Polen on 14 February 1479, in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 4 April 1536, in his hometown, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bavaria, Germany.
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- Friedrich II von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, "Find A Grave Index"
- WIKIPEDIA: FRIEDRICH VON BRANDENBURG, VON HOHENZOLLERN
- Germany, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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Name Meaning
Altered form of Welsh Vaughan .
Chinese: variant of Wong .
Cambodian: written វ៉ុន, unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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