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Poland - Augustus II, Baroque, Enlightenment: A personal union with Saxony, where Augustus II was a strong ruler, seemed at first to offer some advantages to Poland. A king with a power base of his own might reform the Commonwealth, which was still a huge state and potentially a great power. But such hopes proved vain. Pursuing schemes of dynastic greatness, Augustus II involved unwilling ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Genealogy for Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (Wettin, Albertiner), Elector of Saxony, King of Poland (1696 - 1763) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Sigismund II Augustus. Sigismund II Augustus ( Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch ...
The personal union of Poland and Saxony, or Saxony-Poland, was the personal union that existed from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 to 1763 between the Electorate of Saxony under the House of Wettin and the aristocratic republic / elective monarchy of Poland-Lithuania. After the death of Augustus III of Poland in 1763, the personal union expired ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Sigismund II Augustus (born Aug. 1, 1520, Kraków, Pol.—died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn) was the last Jagiellon king of Poland, who united Livonia and the duchy of Lithuania with Poland, creating a greatly expanded and legally unified kingdom. The only son of Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza, Sigismund II was elected and crowned coruler with ...
King Augustus III of Poland (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony, 1733-1763; King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, 1733-1763. Sitter in 1 portrait. Like voting is closed.
Augustus took this action as elector of Saxony, but Poland paid for the hazardous speculation of its newly elected king. Throughout the Second Northern War , which wasted northern and central Europe for more than 20 years (1700–21), all the belligerents treated Poland as if it had no political existence.
