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When his father died, on 5 October 1763, Frederick Christian succeeded him as elector. A young Frederick Christian by Pierre Subleyras , c. 1739 Even before, Frederick Christian had written in his diary: " Princes exist for their subjects, not subjects for their princes.
Signature. Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise (German: Friedrich der Weise ), was Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the protection given to his subject Martin Luther, the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of ...
When his father died on 5 October 1763, Frederick Christian succeeded him as Elector of Saxony. Even before his ascension to the throne, Frederick Christian wrote in his diary that princes exist for their subjects, not the other way around.
Strategists in the Palatinate believed that if Frederick became king, this would lead John George I, Elector of Saxony, to break his alliance with the Habsburgs and come fully to the Protestant cause. This assumption proved unfounded. Frederick's chancellor Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568–1630).
- 19 September 1610 – 23 February 1623
- Frederick IV
- 4 November 1619, St Vitus Cathedral
- Maximilian I
With the death of Maximilian in January 1519, Frederick found himself in position to exert an authority that would enable the early Protestant movement to make headway. The Saxon elector was considered “imperial vicar,” which meant Frederick functionally served as king after the death of Maximilian until a successor was elected.
1813, however, sounded the death knell to the good times. Ruined by the quartering of huge armies on its territories and also suffering from having fought on the wrong side, Saxony was to be made a Prussian protectorate after the Congress of Vienna (Prussia was in the end to annex the Northern half of the kingdom).
Frederick III. (A.D. 1463–1525) was an Elector from Saxony who famously protected Martin Luther from the Holy Roman Emperor, the Pope, and others. Although Frederick remained Catholic throughout his life, he did seem to gradually move towards doctrines from the Reformation.
