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Augustus III, detail of an oil painting by Louis de Silvestre; in the State Collections of Art in Wawel Castle, Kraków, Poland. (more) The reign of Augustus III (1733–63)—during which 5 out of 15 Sejms were dissolved while the remainder took no decisions—witnessed the nadir of Polish statehood.
Augustus III, 1696–1763, king of Poland (1735–63) and, as Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony (1733–63); son of Augustus II, whom he succeeded in Saxony.Elected king of Poland by a minority, he allied himself with Empress Anna of Russia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in the War of the Polish Succession (1733–35) and secured the throne from Stanislaus I.
Jan 16, 2017 · Augustus III, the King of Poland from 1734 to 1763 and Elector of Saxony from 1733 to 1763, was born 17 October 1696 in Dresden, the only legitimate son of King Augustus II of Poland and Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671-1727). He was groomed to succeed his father as king of Poland, and converted to Catholicism in 1721.
But when a Russian army of 30,000 approached Warsaw, Leszczyński fled to Gdańsk, and another sejm of 3,000 delegates named Frederick Augustus as Poland’s new king, Augustus III (Oct. 5, 1733). France consequently formed anti-Habsburg alliances with Sardinia-Savoy (September 26) and Spain (November 7) and declared war on Austria (October 10).
Augustus III was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known ...
Augustus III (Polish: August III Sas, Lithuanian: Augustas III; 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II). He was the only legitimate son of Augustus II ...
Augustus III. Augustus III, King of Poland, and, as Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, the only legitimate son of Augustus II ("the Strong"), was born at Dresden on the 17th of October 1696. Educated as a Protestant, he followed his father's example by joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1712, although his conversion was not made public ...
- October 17, 1696
- October 5, 1763
