# Talk:Brandenburg–Prussia

The flag is unsourced (and I couldn't add a {{citation needed}} to it without messing up the infobox). Did it really exist, or is it some editor's fancy? Qwertyus (talk) 01:02, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

No idea. Bringing back coats of arms.Ernio48 (talk) 01:18, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

As of the time of this writing, the article contains the phrase "Frederick III of Brandenburg, since 1701 also Frederick I of Prussia, was born [...]". That's an error. He was King IN Prussia since 1701. He was only King in the former DUCHY of Prussia, in which, even before he decided to call himself King, he did not have an overlord. He was not King in the PROVINCE of Prussia (Royal Prussia), which was still part of the Kingdom of Poland and which he did NOT possess even as a vassal of Poland's King. And he wasn't King of ANYTHING inside the Holy Roman Empire, where his holdings were as a vassal of the Emperor. (The Kingdom of Bohemia wasn't sovereign either, but was, entirely, vassalage of the Emperor, so I think the title "King" for Bohemia's holder was just an honorific to confer a rank higher than a Dukedom, and it did not come with truly "kingly" or "royal" sovereignty and independence from the Emperor's nation-state.) When Prussia's Frederick II took most of the Province of Royal Prussia away from the King of Poland, THEN (1722) he was King OF Prussia. Not before. This is a paraphrase of my understanding. It might not be 100% accurate. Whatever it is that I've missed or garbled, however, would not change the fact that it is 100% INaccurate to refer to Frederick of I as "King OF Prussia since 1701".2604:2000:C682:2D00:5D2D:B629:6EF7:225C (talk) 08:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson

Brandenburg was not merged into Prussia in 1701, so I don't understand why the article ends at that date. Srnec (talk) 23:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Still a problem... Srnec (talk) 18:40, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi all, this is my first talk page edit so bear with me. There seem to be a lot of issues that need to be addressed on this page. In addition to the things mentioned here, I will make a list here and edit it or mark it as done as we go. 
- First of all this talk page needs to be cleaned up because of old comments. 
- The predecessor and successor countries are not constant. Though this page says the provinces made up this nation, the provinces themselves show that they morphed into other states.  
Thanks Historyhiker (talk) 00:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Another one is the reference to "Calvinist nurturer Calcum" in the section on the Great Elector (added in one of the flurry of edits on 21 April 2010) by user Skäpperöd, which has subsequently remained a red link for over fifteen years.
As far as I can tell, there is no reference anywhere else on the internet to this mysterious "Calcum". Perhaps it's a German transliteration of a person we know under another name? GoodbyeCassini (talk) 06:20, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for reminding me, I can look into this soon. I fixed a lot of the predecessor and successor countries in my last batch of edits for all of the Prussian pages. I am currently recovering from a surgery and have fallen behind on my reading list so it may take some time. I will add these pages to my current projects but please feel free to remove or repair the text if you get to it before I do! Historyhiker (talk) 17:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
I made an archive for the old comments (last updated before 2015) Historyhiker 02:42, 9 October 2025 (UTC)