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May 1, 2024 · Frederick Augustus I (born Dec. 23, 1750, Dresden, Saxony—died May 5, 1827, Dresden) was the first king of Saxony and duke of Warsaw, who became one of Napoleon’s most loyal allies and lost much of his kingdom to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Succeeding his father in 1763 as the elector Frederick Augustus III, he brought order and ...
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Scholars have concentrated on Luther’s interactions with the elector of Saxony Frederick III, “the Wise” (1463–1525, r. 1486–1525), during the early Reformation. Less scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between Luther and the electors of Saxony during the reign of Frederick’s brother John the Steadfast (1468–1532 ...
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May 9, 2024 · Augustus II (born May 12, 1670, Dresden, Saxony [Germany]—died February 1, 1733, Warsaw, Poland) was the king of Poland and elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I). Though he regained Poland’s former provinces of Podolia and Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland’s decline as a European power.
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May 13, 2024 · Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Prince-bishop (1727–1763) Clemens Wenceslaus, Prince-bishop (1763–1768) Louis Joseph of Welden, Prince-bishop (1768–1788) Maximilian Prokop of Toerring-Jettenbach, Prince-bishop (1788–1789) Joseph Conrad Freiherr, Prince-bishop (1790–1802) Prince-Abbey of Niedermünster ( complete list) –.
May 19, 2024 · The first king of the House of Oldenburg, Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden was born in February 1426 in Oldenburg, County of Oldenburg, now in the German state of Lower Saxony. He was the eldest of the three sons and the second of the four children of Count Dietrich of Oldenburg (circa 1398 – 1440) and his second wife Helvig ...
May 9, 2024 · Christian of Anhalt was a minor Protestant prince who played a major role in precipitating the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Christian entered the service of the Lutheran elector of Saxony and in 1591 led a force of German Protestant troops to support the Calvinist Henry IV in the French Wars of
May 21, 2024 · Due to his poverty, he was adopted by a citizen of Kahla named Walter, and he began using the name Johann Walter as a schoolboy. Early musical training may have come when he was a chorister in Kahla or Rochlitz. As early as 1517, Walter possibly served as bass singer and composer in the Hofkapelle of Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony.
