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House of Wettin. Father. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. Mother. Margaret of Austria-Styria. Ernest (24 March 1441 – 26 August 1486), known as Ernst in German, was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486. Ernst was the founder and progenitor of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes. [1]
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 ...
The elector's art patronage provides ample visual evidence of his affinity for plague saints, regardless of whether they were popularly venerated as such in Saxony.
His relationship with the rulers in Ernestine and Albertine Saxony and their reaction to his reform movement proved fundamental to Luther’s life and career, just as Luther has become inextricably linked to the history of Saxony and Wittenberg.Scholars have concentrated on Luther’s interactions with the elector of Saxony Frederick III ...
It was the Electors of Saxony who had protected Luther when the Emperor put a price on his head, and Saxony was the cradle of the Reformation. August was therefore turning his back on one of the defining elements of the Albertine Elect- ors.
- Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
- 2002
Wettin dynasty. Augustus (born July 31, 1526, Freiberg, Saxony—died February 12, 1586, Dresden, Saxony) was the elector of Saxony and leader of Protestant Germany who, by reconciling his fellow Lutherans with the Roman Catholic Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, helped bring the initial belligerency of the Reformation in Germany to an end.
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(“Frederick the Wise”; 1463–1525), elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525.Born in Torgau in January 1463,
