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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.
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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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 ...
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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
Maurice, the Elector of Saxony : an historical romance of the sixteenth century : Colquhoun, Katharine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Frederick III, elector of Saxony. Frederick III or Frederick the Wise, 1463–1525, elector of Saxony (1486–1525). At Wittenberg he founded (1502) the university where Martin Luther and Melanchthon taught. At a crucial period for the early Reformation, Frederick protected Luther from the pope and the emperor, and took him into custody at the ...
