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  Saxony
The electoral dignity had connected with it the obligation of primogeniture, that is, only the eldest son could succeed as ruler; this excluded the division of the territory among several heirs and consequently the disintegration of the country.
Duke Ernest, the founder of the Ernestine line, received by the Partition of Leipzig the Duchy of Saxony and the electoral dignity united with it, besides the Landgravate of Thuringia; Albert, the founder of the Albertine line, received the Margravate of Meissen.
Elector Frederick Augustus III (1763-1827) received the title of King of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. The new kingdom was an ally of France in all the Napoleonic wars of the years 1807-13.
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 John, Elector of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John, Elector of Saxony, known as John the Steadfast or John the Constant (born 1468 at Schweinitz Castle - August 16, 1532) was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532 (from the House of Wettin).
He was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony, and followed his brother Frederick the Wise as ruler.
In 1527 the Lutheran Church was established as the state church in Ernestine Saxony, with the Elector as Chief Bishop.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg170 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Johann "The Constant", Elector Of SAXONY was born on 30 Jun 1468 in Meissen, Dresden, Saxony.
Ernst, Prince Of SAXONY was born on 26 Jun 1464 in Of Torgau, Sachsen, Prussia.
Moritz, Duke Of SAXONY ZEITZ was born on 28 Mar 1619 in Dresen, Dresden, Saxony.
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 Frederick III, Elector of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria.
Frederick died unmarried at Langau, near Annaberg, in 1525 and was buried in the Schlosskirche at Wittenberg with a grave by Peter Vischer the Younger.
The attitude of the elector was due rather to his love of justice, which could not endure that Luther should be delivered to his enemies without having been convicted, and to his wish to save for his university, as long as possible.
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 Saxony - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The ducal title of Saxony went to Bernard of Anhalt, a younger son of Albert the Bear of Brandenburg and founder of the Ascanian line of Saxon dukes.
Duke Maurice of Saxony, a grandson of Albert and a Protestant, received the electoral title in the 16th cent.; it remained in the Albertine branch until the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire.
Saxony: on a par with the pyramids and on a level with Versailles.
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 Ernest, Elector of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ernest, Elector Of Saxony (24 March 1441 – 26 August 1486) was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486.
Born at Alternburg, Ernest was founder of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes, ancestor of George I of Great Britain and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband to Victoria of the United Kingdom.
One year after the division elector Ernest died in Colditz, at the age of 46 years, at the consequences of a fall of the horse.
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 Frederick III of Saxony - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(1463-1525), called "the Wise," elector of Saxony, eldest son of Ernest, elector of Saxony, and Elizabeth, daughter of Albert, duke of Bavaria-Munich (d.
In 1493 he had gone as a pilgrim to Jerusalem, and had been made a knight of the Holy Sepulchre; but, although he remained throughout life an adherent of the older faith, he seems to have been drawn into sympathy with the reformers, probably through his connexion with the university of Wittenberg.
In 1519, Frederick, who alone among the electors refused to be bribed by the rival candidates for the imperial throne, declined to be a candidate for this high dignity himself, and assisted to secure the election of Charles V.
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 Frederick The Wise
Elector of Saxony 1486-1525, founder of the University of Wittenberg.
Frederick III, called the Wise, elector of Saxony, eldest son of Ernest, elector of Saxony, and Elizabeth, daughter of Albert, duke of Bavaria-Munich (d.1508), was born at Torgau, and succeeded his father as elector in 1486.
In 1519, Frederick, who alone among the electors refused to be bribed by the rival candidates for the imperial throne, declined to be a candidate for this high dignity himself, and assisted to secure the election of Charles V. He died unmarried at Langau, near Annaberg, on the 5th of May 1525.
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 Saxony Rulers, Dresden, Germany  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Saxony emerges as one of the more powerful stem duchies in East Francia (kings of Germany), once the formal split is made between East and West Franks.
Saxony is divided between Saxe-Lauenberg (in the west) and Saxe-Wittenberg (in the east).
The electorate is elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon Bonaparte on 11th December.
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 SAXONY - Online Information article about SAXONY
metal raised in Saxony in 1907 was £7,036,000; in 1870 it was £314,916.
Frederick of Meissen, and gradually the name of Saxony spread over all the lands ruled by this prince and his descendants.
Rhine on the west, with a fluctuating boundary on the south.
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 Augustus I
Augustus I, elector of Saxony, was the younger son of Henry, Duke of Saxony, and consequently belonged to the Albertine branch of the Wettin family.
The elector, however, was continually haunted by the fear that the Ernestines would attempt to deprive him of the coveted dignity, and his policy both in Saxony and in Germany was coloured by this fear.
Although a sturdy Lutheran the elector hoped at one time to unite the Protestants, on whom he continually urged the necessity of giving no cause of offense to their opponents, and he favored the movement to get rid of the clause in the peace of Augsburg concerning ecclesiastical reservation, which was offensive to many Protestants.
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 Titles of European hereditary rulers
Ernest (+1486), and Albert(+1500), the sons of Frederick II, Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg, divided his possessions and established two major branches of the House of Wettin, the senior Ernestine branch, which received the Electoral dignity, and the junior one, Albertine.
< Frederick I (+1428), Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Misnia; Elector and Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg 1423 >
< Ernest I (+1844), Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld [1806-1826], of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha [1826-1844] >
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 saxony
Son of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony; on death of father (1464) succeeded to rule jointly with elder brother Ernest; on division of duchy (1485) received eastern and western portions; governor of Netherlands for Holy Roman emperors (1488-93); governor of Friesland (1498-1500).
Son of Elector Ernest; allied himself with Archbishop Berthold of Henneberg to promote imperial reforms, esp. to increase nobles' power at expense of the emperor; instrumental in securing election of emperor Charles V (1519) after having refused crown.
Saxe was an illegitimate son of Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694-1733) and, as Augustus II, king of Poland (1697-1733).
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 Courtly Lives - Augustus II Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
August I, Elector of Saxony, was made king on June 27, 1697 and crowned King August II of Poland, on September 15, 1697, in Cracow.
Her son was raised in Pretzsch Castle and he was later known as Elector August II (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony and Augustus III, King of Poland in 1733.
Dresden was the capital of Saxony, and Royal Meissen Porcelain was born.
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 Electors of Saxony in Luther’s Time: John the Steadfast
Elector John, called the Steadfast, elector of Saxony, was the fourth son of the elector Ernest.
He signed the protest against the "recess" of the diet of Spires in 1529, being thus one of the original Protestants, and was actively hostile to Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in 1530.
John alone among the electors objected to the election of Ferdinand as emperor Ferdinand I, king of the Romans.
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 German Kingdoms
The present head of the Royal House of Saxony is Prince Maria Emanual (1926-) of Saxony (Margrave of Meissen).
Ernest's grandson Johann Friedrich (1503-1554) was a member of the Schmalkalden League whilst Albert's grandson Maurice (1521-1553) supported Emperor Charles V. The success of Charles V supported by Maurice in the Schmalkaldic War culminating in the battle at Mühlberg at 1547 led to the Ernestine branch losing their Electoral rank.
Saxony, Hanover and Hesse-Cassel gave unsatisfactory responses and were invaded by Prussia on 16 June 1866, this being the start of the seven week war between Austria and Prussia.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Friedrich III, also known as Frederick the Wise, (January 17, 1463 - May 5, 1525) was Elector of Saxony from 1486-1525.
He was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Albert, Duke of Bavaria.
Frederick secured an exemption from the Edict of Worms for Saxony, and ensured Luther would be heard before the Diet of Worms in 1521.
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 Courtly Lives - Electors of Saxony - Albertine Branch
Saxony was originally held by the descendants of Hermann Billung, but they died out in 1106.
Frederick I, "the Warlike," was first known as the Margrave of Meissen then became known as the Elector of Saxony, after Emperor Sigismund awarded him the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenburg in 1423.
Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in 1733.
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 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
Saxony was reduced to parity with Württemberg as one the smallest of the five Kingdoms of Germany.
The capital of the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony was Dresden, a beautiful city that later became one of the symbols of the horrors of World War II, when the Allies firebombed it on February 13, 1945.
In 1423, the Wettins became the Dukes of Saxony -- the opposite of the dynamic in 909.
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 Albert III of Saxony - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After the death of the elector Frederick in 1464, Albert and Ernest ruled their lands together, but in 1485 a division was made by the treaty of Leipzig, and Albert received Meissen, together with some adjoining districts, and founded the Albertine branch of the family of Wettin.
Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert, in 1475, took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.
His services were rewarded in 1498 when Maximilian bestowed upon him the title of hereditary governor (potestat) of Friesland, but he had to make good his claim by force of arms.
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 Wikinfo | Rulers of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony and Westphalia.
On Albert II's death, Saxony was split between his sons, who became Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Saxe-Lauenburg.
In 1356 was issued the Golden Bull, which raised the Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of Elector.
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 Electors of Saxony in Luther’s Time: John Frederick the Magnanimous
Succeeding John the Steadfast as Elector of Saxony was his oldest son, John Frederick I. He was known as the "Magnanimous elector of Saxony." Of the three electors, John Frederick was perhaps the most partisan Lutheran who had a great admiration for Martin Luther.
At the age of twenty-one John Frederick succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony, giving him one of seven votes in the Holy Roman Empire.
In November Maurice (of Ducal Saxony) invaded the electorate.
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 wettin_dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The elder son Ernest, Elector of Saxony received the power of the Electorship and established his seat at Wittenberg, and his younger brother Albert, Duke of Saxony ruled his lands from Dresden.
Saxony was thus divided into Electoral Saxony (mainly coextensive with Thuringia), ruled by the Ernestine Wettins, and Ducal Saxony (mainly coextensive with the modern Saxony), ruled by the Albertine Wettins.
The junior Albertine branch ruled as kings of Poland (1697 - 1763) and Saxony (1806 - 1918), and headed the French-backed Duchy of Warsaw (1807 - 1814) after Russian invasion had thwarted its assumption of a hereditary Polish kingship under the Polish Constitution of 1791.
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