page_title: House of Hohenzollern
section_title: Kings in Prussia (1701–1772)
hierarchical_section_title: House of Hohenzollern / Brandenburg-Prussian branch / Kings in Prussia (1701–1772)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Krönung von Kurfürst Friedrich I. als König Friedrich I. in Preußen, Königsberg 1701. Hier Salbung durch 2 evangelische Bischöfe (Bernhard von Sanden und Benjamin Ursinus), nach erfolgter Krönung.English: Coronation of Elector Friedrich I as King Frederick I in Prussia, Königsberg, 1701. Here he is anointed by two Protestant bishops (Bernhard von Sanden and Benjamin Ursinus) after the coronation.
context_page_description: The House of Hohenzollern is a German former royal dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family arose in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century and took their name from Hohenzollern Castle. The first ancestors of the Hohenzollerns were mentioned in 1061.
  The Hohenzollern family split into two branches, the Catholic Swabian branch and the Protestant Franconian branch, which ruled the Burgraviate of Nuremberg and later became the Brandenburg-Prussian branch. The Swabian branch ruled the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1849, and also ruled Romania from 1866 to 1947. Members of the Franconian branch became Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415 and Duke of Prussia in 1525.
  The Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia were ruled in personal union after 1618 and were called Brandenburg-Prussia.
context_section_description: In 1701 the title of King in Prussia was granted, without the Duchy of Prussia being elevated to a Kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire. From 1701 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King in Prussia. The Duke of Prussia adopted the title of king as Frederick I, establishing his status as a monarch whose royal territory lay outside the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire, with the assent of Emperor Leopold I: Frederick could not be "King of Prussia" because part of Prussia's lands were under the suzerainty of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. In the age of absolutism, most monarchs were obsessed with the desire to emulate Louis XIV of France with his luxurious palace at Versailles.
  In 1772 the Duchy of Prussia was elevated to a kingdom.
caption: Coronation of Frederick I in Königsberg
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