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Added: Jun 7, 2009. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 38038086. Source citation. Margrave of Meißen and landgrave of Thuringia. After his cousin Konradin had died in 1268, he became the legitimate heir to the Hohenstaufen claims. His mother suffered in her marriage and feared for her life. When she fled the Wartburg she supposedly bit Friedrich when ...
Die Schreibweise folgt dem Originaltext. Friedrich der Freidige, Markgraf von Meißen, Landgraf von Thüringen, zweitgeborener Sohn des Landgrafen Albrecht (s. d.) und der Margarethe, Tochter Kaiser Friedrichs II., geb. 1257, † 1324. Zu einem wandelvollen, höchst bewegtem Geschick bestimmt, erging an ihn schon als Knaben einer glaubwürdigen ...
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•AKA: Frederick the Serious
•1323-1349: Margrave of Meissen
•1323-1349: Landgrave of Thuringia
Friedrich II. Wettin von Meißen, Markgraf von Meißen, Landgraf von Thüringen, was born 30 November 1310 in Gotha, Germany to Friedrich I von Meißen (1257-1323) and Elisabeth von Lobdeburg Arnshaugk (1286-1359) and died 18 November 1349 Eisenach, Germany of unspecified causes. He married Mechtild von Bayern (aft1313-1346) 1328 JL in Nuremberg, Germany.
Early life
Frederick was born on 30 November 1310 in Gotha. His parents were Margrave Frederick I of Meissen and Elisabeth von Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk. In 1323, under the guardianship of his mother, he succeeded his father in the Margraviate of Meissen and Thuringia.
Personal rule
After reaching the age of majority in 1329, he had to pass long-term fights with the vassals and neighbours. These conflicts mainly rose due to Frederick's declaration of peace in 1338, which drastically diminished the rights and influence of the small landlords and the local rulers, and which goal was the subjugation of the latter two groups. In 1342, dissatisfied nobles, whose concerns were their rights and independence, banded together in Arnstadt (southwest of Erfurt) against Frederick II, in what would be known as the Thuringian Count's War. The conflict would last up to 1346. After the death of Emperor Louis IV, the Bavarian party tried to move him to the acceptance of the German crown, however, he mistrusted the inconstancy of his voters and rejected such strange request in favour of Charles IV. Frederick II limited himself to consolidate his rule and to defend against the danger going out from Charles IV. At a meeting 1348 in Bautzen both recognized the existing possession states. Frederick died on 18 November 1349 in Wartburg.
Frederick II married May 1323 in Nürnberg Mathilde of Bavaria, daughter of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and had 9 children:
1.Elisabeth , married to Frederick V of Nuremberg.
2.Friedrich (born and died 1330)
3.Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia
4.Balthasar
5.Beatrix von Meißen (1339-1399), nun in Weißenfels
Notable Ancesters
•Charlemagne Family Ancestry •Frederick Barbarossa Family Ancestry - Great-granddaughter •Alfred the Great Family Ancestry
Notable Descendants
•Kings of Denmark •Charles III of the United Kingdom (1948-)
Bibliographies
•Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0195334036. https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwpq6bLHhMC&q=Frederick+III,+Landgrave+of+Thuringia.
Artikel „Friedrich II. der Ernsthafte, Landgraf von Thüringen und Markgraf von Meißen“ von Heinrich Theodor Flathe in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 7 (1878), S. 564–565, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, URL: (Version vom 8.
Johannes VI. Bischof Von Meißen : Ein Beitrag Zur Sächsischen Kirchen-Und Landesgeschichte, Insbesondere Zur Geschichte des Hochstifts Meißen (Classic Reprint) by Julius Leopold Pasig (2018, Hardcover)
ADB:Gertrud (Markgräfin von Meißen) Artikel „Gertrud“ von Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 9 (1879), S. 71–72, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, URL: (Version vom 2. April 2024, 02:59 Uhr UTC)
Nov 9, 2012 · Johann Friedrich Böttger wurde am 19.April 1714 aus der Haft entlassen. Sachsen durfte er nicht verlassen. Er begann auf Drängen des Kurfürsten sich wieder mit der Herstellung von Gold zu befassen. Als Folge seiner Experimente mit giftigen Substanzen starb Böttger am 13.März 1719. Begraben wurde er auf dem Johannisfriedhof in Dresden.