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3 days ago · Maurice (born March 21, 1521, Freiberg, Saxony—died July 9, 1553, Sievershausen, Saxony) was the duke (1541–53) and later elector (1547–53) of Saxony, whose clever manipulation of alliances and disputes gained the Albertine branch of the Wettin dynasty extensive lands and the electoral dignity.
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5 days ago · Acting out of what appears to be a blend of conviction and political expediency, the estates’ leaders, prompted by Frederick the Wise, the elector of Saxony, demanded that the Diet of Worms reopen Luther’s case by allowing the excommunicated friar to speak before the estates. Unable to resist, the emperor issued a safe-conduct, and Luther ...
2 days ago · In 1442 the elector Frederick II (“Iron Tooth”) crushed a federation of Brandenburg cities and deprived its leader, Berlin, of its most valued privileges. In the Franconian possessions of the dynasty, Albert Achilles of Hohenzollern waged a destructive war (1449–50) against a city league headed by Nürnberg.
5 days ago · Since Saxony could only have one prince-elector, the title originally went with the elder brother Ernest and his Wettin dynasty line. However, in the sixteenth century this power was given to the Albertine line by the Holy Roman Emperor.
5 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.
3 days ago · The same day I came to the Palsgrave departed Barbisdorf, sent to the Elector from the Elector of Saxony, touching the subscribing to the new divines' book ; who have given to the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg such counsel as the Pope never would invent worse for the oppressing of the Calvinists.
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4 days ago · In spite of some early Jewish victories, Titus, leader of the Roman armies, surrounded Jerusalem in 70 AD and the siege began. Apparently heeding the Saviour’s warning, the Christians fled beyond Jordan to Pella and avoided the fate of the city.
