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5 days ago · List of rulers of Saxony. This article lists dukes, electors, and kings ruling over different territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Saxon Duchy in the 6th century to the end of the German monarchies in 1918.
2 days ago · King of Saxony r. 876–882: Liutgard of Saxony c. 845 –885: Gisela of Alsace c. 840 –895: Berthold I c. 838 –896 Count Palatine of Swabia: Charles III the Fat 839–888 King of East Francia: Richardis c. 840 –c. 895: Conrad d. 906 Duke of Thuringia: Ota c. 874 – 899/903: Arnulf of Carinthia 850–899 King of East Francia r. 887–899 ...
2 days ago · of Saxony 1505–1549: Philip 1504–1567 regent 1543–1548: Albert V Alcibiades 1522–1527 – 1553–1557: Emilie of Saxony 1516–1591: George I the Pious 1484–1536–1543 Kulmbach, regent 1527–1541: Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels 1508–1531: Magdalena of Saxony 1507–1534: Joachim II Hector 1505–1535–1571 Ansbach, regent 1543 ...
May 5, 2024 · Saxony, state, eastern Germany. Present-day Saxony is composed largely of hill and mountain country, with only its northernmost portions and the area around Leipzig descending into the great North European Plain. The chief mountain range is the Ore Mountains and the capital is Dresden.
May 9, 2024 · Augustus II, king of Poland and elector of Saxony. Though he regained Poland’s former provinces of Podolia and Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland’s decline as a European power. His hopes of establishing a strong Polish monarchy came to naught and his death triggered the War of the Polish Succession.
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Apr 26, 2024 · Saxon, member of a Germanic people who in ancient times lived in the area of modern Schleswig and along the Baltic coast. During the 5th century CE the Saxons spread rapidly through north Germany and along the coasts of Gaul and Britain.
May 9, 2024 · Melusine von der Schulenburg was born on December 25, 1667, in Emden, Electorate of Brandenburg, now part of Altenhausen in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.She was the second of the five daughters and the fourth of the nine children of Gustavus Adolphus, Freiherr (Baron) von der Schulenburg (1632 – 1691) and his first wife Petronella Ottilie von Schwencken (1637 – 1674).
