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5 days ago · Date accessed: 15 June, 2024. Although the Electorate of Saxony was one of the most influential Protestant territories in the Holy Roman Empire, it has received little attention from English scholars.
2 days ago · On his deathbed in 918, he therefore proposed that the crown, which in 911 had remained with the Franks, should now pass to the leading man in Saxony, the Liudolfing Henry (later called the Fowler). Henry I was elected by the Saxons and Franks at Fritzlar, their ancient meeting place, in 919.
17 hours ago · Frederick III, also known as Frederick the Wise, was Elector of Saxony from 1486 to his death. German Peasants' War The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt was a widespread popular revolt in the German-speaking areas of Central Europe from 1524 to 1525.
4 days ago · The ambassador spoke to the elector of Saxony, and promised that the Council should be general, Christian, and free. To this the Elector only replied that he would consult his confederates, and inform him of their opinion.
4 days ago · Poland - Augustus II, Baroque, Enlightenment: A personal union with Saxony, where Augustus II was a strong ruler, seemed at first to offer some advantages to Poland. A king with a power base of his own might reform the Commonwealth, which was still a huge state and potentially a great power.
1 day ago · Paul Kliber Monod has written an ambitious and very welcome book, which seeks to investigate the relationship between Christianity and kingship across the whole of Christian Europe in the 'long' seventeenth century from 1589 to 1715.
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1 day ago · The struggle was most intense in the north and east, where the Hohenzollern dynasty of Brandenburg emerged as the chief foe of municipal freedom. In 1442 the elector Frederick II (“Iron Tooth”) crushed a federation of Brandenburg cities and deprived its leader, Berlin, of its most valued privileges.
