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Weimar had previously been outside Saxon control, having been granted to Albert 'the Bear', Ascanian duke of Saxony, when he had relinquished that title in 1142. It is the electorate of Saxe-Meissen which is now and remains the senior Saxon line, even eventually being elevated to the status of kingdom.
saint of Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-1525). The first of these reli quaries (fig. 1) is a silver statuette of the martyred apostle, who appears standing on a pedestal that bears the coat of arms of electoral Saxony as he reads from a book, his skin draped over his right arm. It housed five particles of bone from the
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May 1, 2024 · Frederick III (born Jan. 17, 1463, Torgau, Saxony—died May 5, 1525, Lochau, near Torgau) 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 ...
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A devout Catholic, Frederick the Wise became “elector” of Saxony upon the death of his father. Frederick had castles in Saxony, including Wittenberg and Wartburg, which would become important landmarks in the life of Martin Luther. Though he participated in the selling of indulgences, Frederick objected to the selling of indulgences for the ...
- Augustus The Strong: Son of Saxony
- From The Count of Meissen to The Elector of Saxony
- Unhappily Married to Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Beyreuth
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- The War of The Polish Succession
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Augustus the Strong, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony was also known as August II, August Friedrich, August II Wettin, August Mocny and August der Starke. He was given the sobriquet strongfor two reasons: 1. He could break horseshoes into pieces with his hands. 2. He could toss foxes, a highly dubious ...
The royal children were well educated, and, aged seventeen, Frederick Augustus embarked on a two-year-long tour of Europe using the alias the Count of Meissen. His love of the arts, architecture and science blossomed, and throughout his reigns in Saxony and Poland-Lithuania, he created an impressive artistic and architectural legacy, including esta...
On 20th January 1693, Frederick Augustus married Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Beyreuth; from 1694 she was Electress of Saxony. It was a miserable marriage. He found her dull, and she was understandably piqued by his succession of mistresses. She was appalled when, during the coronation procession, his mistress Maria Aurora von Konigsmarck ...
Frederick Augustus' conversion caused dissent among the people of Saxony, but it won him his prize in the Catholic Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania as King Augustus II. Christiane never travelled to Poland or Lithuania, and she was not accorded a ceremonial crowning. It would have been a Catholic ceremony; she would not have participated as a devot...
After Russia, his ally in the Great and Second Northern Wars, won the Battle of Poltova in 1709, Augustus declared the 1706 treaty null and void. He signed the Treaty of Thorns with Russia, which saw Leszcynski ousted with Russian assistance. Augustus resumed his reign in Poland-Lithuania. In the years following his reinstatement, the Russians inte...
Wettin dynasty. Augustus (born July 31, 1526, Freiberg, Saxony—died February 12, 1586, Dresden, Saxony) was the elector of Saxony and leader of Protestant Germany who, by reconciling his fellow Lutherans with the Roman Catholic Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, helped bring the initial belligerency of the Reformation in Germany to an end.
Scholars have concentrated on Luther’s interactions with the elector of Saxony Frederick III, “the Wise” (1463–1525, r. 1486–1525), during the early Reformation. Less scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between Luther and the electors of Saxony during the reign of Frederick’s brother John the Steadfast (1468–1532 ...
