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- In 1532, John Frederick succeeded his father as elector.
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In 1532, John Frederick succeeded his father as elector. In the beginning he reigned with his half-brother, John Ernest, but in 1542 became sole ruler.
- Wettin (Ernestine line)
- Sybille of Cleves
Born in Torgau, he succeeded his father as elector in 1486; in 1502, he founded the University of Wittenberg, where theologians Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon would teach some time later. Frederick was among the German princes who pressed the need of reform upon Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , and in 1500, he became president of the ...
Mar 4, 2024 · Frederick III was the elector of Saxony who worked for constitutional reform of the Holy Roman Empire and protected Martin Luther after Luther was placed under the imperial ban in 1521. Succeeding his father, the elector Ernest, in 1486, Frederick allied himself with Berthold, archbishop of.
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When John George II (r. 1656–1680) succeeded his father, Electoral Saxony was still suffering from the economic consequences of the war. It was not until the reign of John George III (r. 1680–1691) that the war damage and dire social welfare situation were overcome.
- Feudal monarchy
- Early modern Europe
- Germany, Poland
In 1486 he succeeded his father, together with his younger brother John, as sovereign of Ernestine Saxony. He was a man of peaceful conciliation and kept his territory out of all warfare...
Receiving an education suitable to the son of a dynastic family, Frederick succeeded his father in 1486, a year after the Leipzig Division of Saxony.
Mar 4, 2024 · Succeeding his father in 1763 as the elector Frederick Augustus III, he brought order and efficiency to his country’s finances and administration. In foreign policy, he was neutralist but drifted toward Prussia, whose side he took in the Bavarian succession dispute (1778–79), when it prevented Bavaria’s cession to Austria.
