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Life Family. Sidonie was the daughter of the Duke Henry IV of Saxony (1473–1541) from his marriage to Catherine (1487–1561), daughter of the Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg. . Her brothers were Elector Maurice of Saxony and August; her sister Sibylle was from 1540 by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg; her sister Aemilia was from 1533 by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansba
Albert (23 April 1828 – 19 June 1902) was King of Saxony from 29 October 1873 until his death in 1902. He was the eldest son of Prince John (who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the Saxon throne as King John in 1854) by his wife Amalie Auguste of Bavaria . Albert had a successful military career, leading Saxon troops that ...
His name is given as Albrecht in the genealogies of the House of Welf. He was a son of Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, of Principality of Wolfenbüttel and Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal . Albert gained prebendaries as canon of the then Catholic cathedral [1] in Magdeburg (then in the Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg) and as provost at ...
Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1464–1486), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1428–1464) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1486–1500); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany. After Henry's death in 1435, and Sigismund was forced to renounce and became a bishop (in 1440), Frederick and William divided their possessions. In the Division of Altenburg in 1445 ...
Otto's son, Albert the Bear, became, with the help of his mother's inheritance, the first Ascanian duke of Saxony in 1139. However, he soon lost control of Saxony to the rival House of Guelph . Albert inherited the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157 from its last Wendish ruler, Pribislav , and he became the first Ascanian margrave.
To distinguish him from other rulers bearing the title Duke of Saxony, he was commonly called Elector of Saxony. John II: 1275 1296–1303 22 April 1322 Saxe-Lauenburg: Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg 1315 one child Children of John I, co-ruled first with their uncle Albert II since 1282 (since the death of their father), and in 1296 split the ...
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg. Father. Albert II, Duke of Saxony. Mother. Agnes of Habsburg. Rudolf I ( c. 1284 – 12 March 1356), a member of the House of Ascania, was Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1298 until his death. By the Golden Bull of 1356 he was acknowledged as Elector of Saxony .
