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His Grace
Frederick I
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Frederick I of Great Britain


King of Great Britain and Ireland Elector of Hanover
Incumbent
Assumed office 
9 January 1754
Preceded by George II

Master of the Rolls
In office
6 April 1747 – 9 January 1754
Monarch George II
Prime Minister The Duke of Newcastle

Lord President of the Council
In office
6 April 1747 – 1752
Monarch George II
Prime Minister The Duke of Newcastle
Preceded by unknown
Succeeded by Roger Atkinson

Prince of Spain
In office
17 October 1696 – 5 April 1744
Monarch Phillip V Clemente

Born 17 October 1696
Madrid, Spain
Political party Whig
Spouse Elisabeth Josepha (m. 1751)
Alma mater Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Religion Roman Catholicism
Signature Frederick I of Great Britain's signature
Military service
Allegiance
  • Poland-Lithuania
  • Great Britain
  • Spain
Service/branch
  • Royal Navy
  • Spanish Navy
  • Commonwealth Army
  • Commonwealth Navy
Years of service 1714–Present
Rank Admiral
Commands King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Battles/wars
  • War of the Spanish Succession
  • War of Spanish Aggression (1743)
  • Russo-Polish War (1744)
  • The Swedish Wars (1744)
  • Spanish Civil War (1744)
  • The Paradoxian Wars (1744)
  • The Post-Paradoxian War (1744-1745)
  • The Delta Wars (1745)
  • The Imperio Wars (1746)
  • Royal Black Guard Rebellion (1751)
Awards
  • Knight of the Order of the Bath
  • Knight of the Order of the Thistle

Frederick Augustus II (Polish: Fryderyk August II Sas, Lithuanian: Frederikas Augustas II; born 17 October 1696) is the current King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire, Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, and the former Prince and King of Spain.

Titles[]

Frederick Augustus II, King of Poland, Prussia, Sweden, Sicily, Naples, Joseon, Cyprus, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, Tuscany, Crimea, Silesia, Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, Saxe-Gotha, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Hildburghausen, Saxe-Meiningen, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, Estonia, and of Castro etc. The ruler of all Russias: of Moscow, of Vladimir, of Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan and Tsar of Siberia, sovereign of Pskov, great prince of Smolensk, Tversk, Yugorsk, Permsky, Vyatsky, Bulgarsky and others, sovereign and great prince of Novgorod Nizovsky lands, Chernigovsky, of Ryazan, of Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersky, Udorsky, Kondiisky and the sovereign of all the northern lands, of the Kabardin lands, of the Circassian and Mountain princes and many other states and lands western and eastern here and there and the successor and sovereign and ruler, Emperor of the Great Qing of China and Japan, Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shah of Persia, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, Duke of Hamilton, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.

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