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1 day ago · Acting out of what appears to be a blend of conviction and political expediency, the estates’ leaders, prompted by Frederick the Wise, the elector of Saxony, demanded that the Diet of Worms reopen Luther’s case by allowing the excommunicated friar to speak before the estates.
5 days ago · The successful competitor was Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony, who renounced Lutheranism for the coveted crown and won the day because he happened to arrive last of all, with fresh funds, when the agents of his rivals had spent all their money.
4 days ago · It is to be feared that his adversaries, the elector of Saxony and landgrave of Hesse, who thereupon assembled an army, will demand an indemnity from his partisans, and so raise a new and worse tragedy in the Empire.
3 days ago · Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devout Catholics.
4 days ago · The eastern policy of the Saxons. in in. Also known as: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutschland, Federal Republic of Germany. Written by. K.J. Leyser. Chichele Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of Oxford, 1984–88.
5 days ago · The hereditary elector of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II, was also elective King of Poland as Augustus III, but the two territories were physically separated by Brandenburg and Silesia. Neither state could pose as a great power.
4 days ago · Asks him to obtain payment of the moiety of the prebend in Aldenburgh, given to him by the elector of Saxony, at the desire of Doctors Martin [Luther], Philip [Melanchthon], the Provost (Prpositus), and Pomeranus.
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