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Jan 6, 2023 · Maurice Von Saxony in GenealogieOnline Family Tree Index ... Elector of Saxony: Reign 24 April 1547 – 9 July 1553; Predecessor: John Frederick I Successor: Augustus I.
Augustus was on a visit to Denmark when by Maurice's death in July 1553 he became elector of Saxony. Elector of Saxony Augustus as depicted on a 1568 thaler, minted in Dresden. The first care of the new elector was to come to terms with John Frederick, and to strengthen his own hold upon the electoral position.
Aug 29, 2022 · Maurice (21 March 1521 – 9 July 1553) was Duke (1541–47) and later Elector (1547–53) of Saxony.His clever manipulation of alliances and disputes gained the Albertine branch of the Wettin dynasty extensive lands and the electoral dignity.
This small posthumous portrait and that of Johann I, the Constant (The Met 46.179.2) belong to a series of sixty such portrait pairs of the brothers and Saxon electors that Johann I's son and successor, Johann Friedrich I, the Magnanimous (r. 1532–47), commissioned from Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1532.
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, 1521-1553 -- Fiction: Subject: Saxony (Germany) -- History -- 1423-1815 -- Fiction: Call number: PR4501 .C3473 M28: Other copies: Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere.
Woodcut of Maurice, Elector of Saxony. Whole length with short hair, beard, armour, and sash, holding a sword in right hand, with drapery behind. Cut down without inscription, with printed German text on the verso.This print is from a series of 108 portraits of the rulers of Saxony dating from 70 BC to the early seventeenth century, all taken from Petrus Albinus New Stammbuch und Beschreibung ...
Christian I of Saxony (29 October 1560 in Dresden – 25 September 1591 in Dresden) was Elector of Saxony from 1586 to 1591. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin . He was the sixth but second surviving son of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Anna of Denmark. The death of his older brother, Alexander (8 October 1565), made ...
