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Silver Saxony coin of Frederick III, known as a Groschen, minted ca. 1507–25. Both the obverse and the reverse bear a version of the Saxony Electorate 's coat of arms . Frederick died unmarried in 1525, aged 62 years old, at Lochau, a hunting castle near Annaburg (30 km southeast of Wittenberg), and was buried in the Castle Church at ...
With the death of Maximilian in January 1519, Frederick found himself in position to exert an authority that would enable the early Protestant movement to make headway. The Saxon elector was considered “imperial vicar,” which meant Frederick functionally served as king after the death of Maximilian until a successor was elected.
Frederick pronounced the sentence of death on the Antitrinitarian Johann Sylvan based on the opinion signed by Olevianus, Ursinus, and Boquin, on 23 December 1572. In 1562 Frederick gave Frankenthal as a refuge to the Evangelicals driven from the Netherlands.
- 12 February 1559 – 26 October 1576
- Beatrice of Baden
Feb. 14, 1515, Simmern, Ger. Died: Oct. 26, 1576, Heidelberg, Rhenish Palatinate (aged 61)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1813, however, sounded the death knell to the good times. Ruined by the quartering of huge armies on its territories and also suffering from having fought on the wrong side, Saxony was to be made a Prussian protectorate after the Congress of Vienna (Prussia was in the end to annex the Northern half of the kingdom).
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January 17. Lutherans. Reformation. Religion. Renaissance. Rulers. 15th Century. 16th Century. People. Frederick III of Saxony, The Wise →. Frederick III of Saxony, also known as Frederick the Wise, was Elector of Saxony (from the House of Wettin) from 1486 to his death.
Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise (German: Friedrich der Weise ), was Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the protection given to his subject Martin Luther, the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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