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Frederick William III (German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved.
Frederick William III was the king of Prussia from 1797, the son of Frederick William II. Neglected by his father, he never mastered his resultant inferiority complex, but the influence of his wife, Louisa of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whom he married in 1793, occasionally moved him outside his.
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Frederick William III (German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved.
Frederick William became King of Prussia on 16 November 1797. A sober young man, becoming king did nothing to alter Frederick; rather, he set about trying to change the throne he had inherited. At odds with what he saw as the low moral and political standards of the court, he made immediate attempts at reform.
King of Prussia on his father's death in 1797, he rescinded some of the monarchy's more repressive legislation, ans was less inclined to reactionary intolerance than his predecessor, but earned a reputation for indecision and dependance on the formidable Queen Louise.
A semi-enlightened king, Frederick-Wilhelm promoted religious fairness and eased censorship in Prussia. He joined the Third Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, but the Austro-Russian disaster at Austerlitz made him rethink his military stance.
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Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1770-1840) 1814-18. RCIN 404944. Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle. Frederick William III of Prussia lost almost half of his Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. Like the Russian Emperor Alexander I, he commanded his own army at the Battle of Jena in 1806.
