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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 ...
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May 6, 2019 · From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Friedrich Christian I, Elector of Saxony. Elector of Saxony (1722-1763) Fredrik Christian som kurprins av Sachsen og prins av Polen i harnisk og røyskattmantel såvel som med Den hvite ørns orden, malt av Anton Raphael Mengs i 1751 i slottet Weesenstein. image.
The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony ( German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen or Kursachsen ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. Its territory included the areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles IV designated the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg an ...
Oct 29, 1560 - Sep 25, 1591. Christian I of Saxony was Elector of Saxony from 1586 to 1591. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin. He was the sixth but second surviving son of Elector Augustus of Saxony and Anna of Denmark. The death of his older brother, Alexander, made him the new heir apparent to the Electorate of Saxony.
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Details. individual; ruler; German; Male. Life dates. 1463-1525. Other dates. 1485-1525 (ruled) Biography. Elector of Saxony who worked for constitutional reform of the Holy Roman Empire. Succeeded his father Ernest as Elector of Saxony; a Roman Catholic, he nevertheless founded the university of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther (q.v.) taught.
