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Dorothea was born 4 October 1563, the daughter of the Elector Augustus of Saxony (1526–1586) and his wife Anna (1532–1585), daughter of King Christian III of Denmark. Of the four 15 children from the marriage of her parents, only four survived their father; Dorothea among them. On 26 September 1585 in Wolfenbüttel, the twenty-two-year-old ...
History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
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Dorothea of Saxony (1563–1587) Princess of Saxony. Born on October 4, 1563; died on February 13, 1587; daughter of Anna of Denmark (1532–1585) and Augustus (1526–1586), elector of Saxony; married Heinrich Julius also known as Henry Julius, duke of Brunswick (r. 1589–1613), on September 26, 1585; children: Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick ...
The Female Consort as Intercessor in Sixteenth-Century Saxony Borderline Sanctity: Dorothea of Montau, Günter Grass, and Pope Benedict XVI Teaching Magna Carta in American History: Land, Law, and Legacy
According to Bede the Angles settled in East Anglia, the Saxons in southern England, and the Jutes in Kent and the Isle of Wight. The name ‘Anglo-Saxon’ comes from the fusion of the names of two of these peoples. The terms ‘English’ and ‘England’ come from a further shortening, all terms coming from the name of a small district in ...
Queen of Norway and Denmark. Name variations: Lüneburg or Luneburg. Born on July 9, 1511; died on October 7, 1571, in Sonderburg; daughter of Magnus, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1488–1563); married Christian III (1503–1559), king of Norway and Denmark (r. 1534–1559), on October 29, 1525; children ...
Dorothea, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. House. House of Ascania. Father. Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. Mother. Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571) was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark.
