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Mentally disabled, he was the second of only four of their ten children to survive to adulthood and, on the death of his elder brother John in 1537, succeeded him as hereditary prince of the Duchy of Saxony .
Signature. Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise (German: Friedrich der Weise ), was Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the protection given to his subject Martin Luther, the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of ...
Frederick III (1463-1525), also known as 'Frederick the Wise,' was born at Torgau and succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony in 1486. Frederick was among the princes who pressed the need for reform upon the German king Maximilian I in 1495, and in 1500 he became president of the newly-formed council of regency (Reichsregiment).
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The electorate consisted of an almost perfect territorial unit, unlike many other German states. It constituted two different parts: hereditary states (these alone made up two thirds the entirety) and various other regions. The latter had been acquired since the Counter Reformation.
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17 January 1463 Torgau, Electoral Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire Died 5 May 1525 (1525-05-05) (aged 62) Castle Lochau near Annaburg , Electoral Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire
In 1502, the humanist-influenced prince established a new university in Wittenberg to rival the Albertine Saxon university in Leipzig. Through Wittenberg, he became a patron of humanism and other late medieval reforms, including the Augustinian observant movement in Saxony headed by the local prior, Johannes von Staupitz.
