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Anna, daughter of Duke Albrecht Friedrich Of Prussia (reigned 1568 - 1618 ), married Elector Johann Sigismund of Brandenburg , who was granted the right of succession to Ducal Prussia (then a Polish fief) on his father-in-law's death in 1618 . From this time the Polish fief Prussia came under the reign of the Electors of Brandenburg. Ducal Prussia stayed a fief under the Polish crown till 1660. During the reign of Georg Wilhelm ( 1619 - 1640 ), the Hohenzollern lands were repeatedly marched across by various armies in the Thirty Years' War , spending much of the war occupied by Sweden . His successor "The Great Elector" Friedrich Wilhelm ( 1640 - 1688 ) started by feeling constrained to go to Warsaw in 1641 to render homage to Ladislaus IV Of Poland for the duchy of Prussia, which he held in fief from the Polish crown. But taking advantage of the difficult position of Poland with Sweden in the Northern War , and his friendly position with Russia during a series of Russo-Polish wars, Friedrich Wilhelm later managed to obtain a discharge of his vassal obligations, and after the Tatar invasion of Poland in 1656 - 57 was finally given independent control of Prussia in 1660 . However, the rights of the Polish crown to Prussia would still legally revert back if the Hohenzollern dynastic line became extinct. In 1701 his son, Friedrich III , proclaimed himself Friedrich I, King In Prussia , and all links to Poland were removed. The first Prussian King was also the last who spoke fluent Polish. His successors spoke fluent French and German. (see Kingdom Of Prussia ) |
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