Funerary monument of Frid Guiliel Maurit Alexander

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This is a memorial monument honoring Alexander von der Mark, showing him at rest on top of it. Count Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz Alexander von der Mark (1779 - 1787) was an illegitimate son of King Frederick William II of Prussia and his mistress, the Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau. Upon his father's ascension to the throne in 1786, he and his sister Marianne were elevated to nobility with the title of the house of Mark, a family that had died out in 1609 but was inherited by the Prussian Hohenzollerns. It is possible Alexander, the half-brother of later King Friedrich Wilhelm III., was poisoned the following year.