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The original Duchy of Saxony was the lands of the Saxon people in the north-western part of present-day Germany, namely, the modern German state of Lower Saxony as well as Westphalia and Western Saxony-Anhalt, not the modern German state of Saxony. Early dukes. Hadugato (ruled about 531) Berthoald (ruled about 627) Theoderic (ruled about 743-744)
Ruling Houses. House of Billunger. Attributed arms. House of Welf. Henry the Lion. House of Ascania.
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ( German: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised to a grand duchy in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna.
The Kingdom of Saxony ( German: Königreich Sachsen ), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony. From 1871, it was part of the German Empire.
Jul 9, 2020 · It like Bavaria could have stayed more intact though. Bavaria in stages lost their peripheral regions, like Austria (1156), Tirol (1154), Salzburg (archbishopric, 1213) and Styria (1180), however the duchy of Bavaria the house of Wittelsbach was enfeoffed with in 1180 did have kept the core Bavarian lands. The situation and end result within ...
Jul 2, 2015 · The southern part of the original Saxony was Westphalia, although the duchy of Westphalia existed only briefly as a political entity in 1180 before the title was transferred to the archbishop of Köln [1]. The northern part of Saxony developed into Hannover, which was later incorporated into the territories of the dukes of Brunswick.
Before the Ernestine branch [ edit] Count Bernhard of Anhalt, youngest son of Albert "the Bear" (1106–1170), inherited parts of the old Saxon duchy, primarily around Lauenburg and Wittenberg, in 1180. He had two sons, Albert and Henry. Albert inherited the Duchy of Saxony. In 1260 Albert bequeathed the duchy to his sons John I and Albert II ...
