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Sep 16, 2022 · Media in category "John George I, Elector of Saxony" The following 32 files are in this category, out of 32 total. 1 Thaler - John George I.png 1,366 × 656; 1.48 MB
These halberds of characteristic shape, with elegantly S-shaped axe blade, long tapering spike with sharp mid-ridge, and fleur-de-lis shaped beak, were made for the Trabantenleibgarde (palace and bodyguard) of the Prince Elector Christian I of Saxony (1586–91).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Thomas P. Campbell. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. p. 164, ill. Pyhrr, Stuart W. "Of Arms and Men: Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan, 1912–2012." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 2012), pp. 42–43, fig. 70.
Christian II, born in Dresden on September 23, 1583 and died in the same city on June 23, 1611, was Elector of Saxony, Count Palatine of Saxony and Margrave of Misnia from 1591 until his death. When his father Christian I died in 1591, Christian, the eldest of the 3 brothers and heir, was just eight years old.
Oct 26, 2004 · Visitors to the Electoral-princely collections in Renaissance Dresden encountered room after room of treasures proclaiming the refined splendor of the court—exquisite gold and silver objects embellished with precious and semi-precious stones and exotic materials, ivory turnings, ebony furniture, clocks, automatons, and decorated tools. In the first exhibition on Dresden to be held at The ...
The halberd was a staff weapon favored by European infantries (foot soldiers) of the 1400s and 1500s for its versatility and deadly effect. The word halberd comes from the German words Halm (staff) and Barte (axe). The halberd is, in fact, an axe that served multiple functions: the axe blade was used for hacking, the spike for thrusting, and the beak for piercing plate armor or for pulling a ...
Succeeded Frederick Christian. Friedrich August III, Elector of Saxony, became Friederich August I, King of Saxony in 1806 and Grand Duke of Warsaw in 1807, as an ally of Napoleon. In 1813 he lost Warsaw to Russia and gave up half of Saxony to Prussia, although Saxony remained a kingdom.
