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House of Wettin. Father. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. Mother. Margaret of Austria. Religion. Roman Catholicism. Albert III ( German: Albrecht) (27 January 1443 – 12 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin .
The House of Wettin was a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors (Kurfürsten) and kings that ruled in what is known today as the German states of Saxony and Thuringia for more than 800 years. Members of the Wettin family were also kings of Poland, as well as forming the ruling houses of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland ...
As part of an ongoing German pattern of sub-dividing their imperial territories, Saxe-Gotha is now partitioned to form the junior subdivisions of Saxe-Coburg - for John Casimir - and Saxe-Eisenach for John Ernest. Duke John William himself retains a rump Saxe-Weimar, while adding Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen and keeping Gotha itself.
Parts of Saxe-Jena were regained in 1690, and Saxe-Eisenach in 1741. It was the latter recombining of territories back under the ruler of Saxe-Weimar which provided the spur to rename these holdings to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, with Duke Ernest August holding them under personal union. A formal union was enacted in 1809.
Johann Wilhelm was a member of the House of Wettin, which had served as the protecting power of Protestantism in Germany since the time of Frederick the Wise, yet he allied himself with the Catholic King of France against the Protestants Huguenots. The Emperor played off the two surviving sons of Johann Friedrich II against Johann Wilhelm, and ...
Alexander Prinz von Sachsen ( German: Alexander Prinz von Sachsen Herzog zu Sachsen; born Alexander Afif on 12 February 1954), is the nephew, adopted son and heir of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, and a businessman. Following the death of Maria Emanuel in July 2012 he assumed the headship of the Royal House of Saxony, based on a 1997 ...
Feb 15, 2022 · Media in category "House of Wettin". The following 35 files are in this category, out of 35 total. Ernestine Saxon duchies.jpg 367 × 319; 42 KB. 02023 0100 Poland under the German Saxon kings.jpg 4,665 × 3,153; 2.6 MB. 13268-Hartha-1911-Wettin-Denkmal-Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag.jpg 1,505 × 1,000; 703 KB.
