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  Anthony Clement of Saxony
Anthony Clement of Saxony Wettin was born in 1755.
He was the son of Frederick Christian Wettin and acceded as Elector and King of Saxony in 1827.
His brother Frederick Augustus I King of Saxony preceded him in the offices of elector and king.
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  Saxony
This old Duchy of Saxony, as it is called in distinction from the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, became the centre of the opposition of the German princes to the imperial power during the era of the Franconian or Salian emperors.
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.
The Vicariate Apostolic of Saxony, and the Prefecture Apostolic of Saxon Upper Lusatia.
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 Duchy of Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie; French: Duché de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau) was a Polish state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit.
The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony.
King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony was compelled by Napoleon to make his new realm a constitutional monarchy, with a parliament (the Sejm).
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 Frederick Augustus - LoveToKnow 1911
(1750-1827), king of Saxony, son of the elector Frederick Christian, was born at Dresden on the 23rd of December 1750.
He was always extremely methodical and conscientious, and a good example to all his officials, whence his surname "the Just." On account of the claims of his mother on the inheritance of her brother, the elector of Bavaria, he sided with Frederick the Great in the short Bavarian succession war of 1778 against Austria.
There are many pamphlets bearing on the Saxon question and on Frederick Augustus during the years 1814 and 1815.
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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).
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II (1797-1854), king of Saxony (1836-54), nephew of King Frederick Augustus I and King Anthony (1755-1836), born in Dresden.
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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 WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1694-1740
Saxony was presented by permanent diplomatic missions in Vienna, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris etc.; Dresden was King Frederick Augustis' main residence.
Frederick Augustus I. pursuied a policy of religious toleration, permitted the settlement of Jews and of Moravian Brethren in Saxony.
(as King of Poland; Duke Elector Frederick Augustus I. of Saxony), from Polish Kings
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 Courtly Lives - Electors of Saxony - Albertine Branch
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.
Johann Georg I married (2) in 1607 to Magdalen Sybilla (1587-1659), daughter of Albert Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia.
Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in 1733.
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 Brief History of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Germany, between the Elbe and the Rhine, south to the Alps and east to the frontiers of Hungary, was beset by Norsemen and Magyars.
In 1485, Upper Saxony was divided into the Electorate of Saxony, mainly in Thuringia (central Germany), under Ernest, son of the previous elector, and the Duchy of Saxony (Upper Saxony).
In 1806, Saxony was raised to the rank of kingdom under Frederick Augustus I. By the Treaty of Tilsit, Napoleon created the Grand Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1813) under Saxony.
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 Saxony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
Augustus II and Augustus III were lavish patrons of art and learning and greatly beautified their capital, Dresden.
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 Saxony
Saxony borders, from the east and clockwise, on Poland, the Czech Republic and the German states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg.
With the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, Saxony became a kingdom, and Elector Frederick Augustus III became King Frederick Augustus I.
Frederick Augustus made the mistake of remaining loyal for too long to Napoleon I, and he was taken prisoner and his territories declared forfeit by the allies in 1813, with the intention of their being annexed by Prussia.
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 Frederick Augustus II of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony, (Friedrich August Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xaver Franz de Paula Veneantius) (May 18, 1797 – August 9, 1854) became king of Saxony in 1836.
Son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony and Princess Caroline of Bourbon-Parma.
On September 26, 1819 Frederick Augustus II married Archduchess Caroline of Austria, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
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 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.
On the death of Charles VI in October 1740, Augustus was among the enemies of his daughter Maria Theresa, and, as a son-in-law of the emperor Joseph I, claimed a portion of the Habsburg territories.
Saxony was in that year attacked by the Prussians, and with so much success that not only was the Saxon army forced to capitulate at Pirna in October, but the elector, who fled to Warsaw, made no attempt to recover Saxony, which remained under the dominion of Frederick.
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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.
Henry I the Fowler King of the Saxons (918-936).
Saxony is divided between Saxe-Lauenberg (in the west) and Saxe-Wittenberg (in the east).
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 Augustus II
Augustus II, King of Poland, and, as Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, second son of John George III, elector of Saxony, was born at Dresden on the 12th of May 1670.
Augustus continued the war against the Turks for a time, and being anxious to extend his influence and to find a pretext for retaining the Saxon troops in Poland, made an alliance in 1699 with Russia and Denmark against Charles XII of Sweden.
Augustus died at Warsaw on the 1st of February 1733, leaving a son Frederick Augustus, who succeeded him in Poland and Saxony, and many illegitimate children, among whom was the famous general, Maurice of Saxony, known as Marshal Saxe.
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 The Ultimate Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony - American History Information Guide and Reference
Frederick Christian (September 5, 1722 - December 17, 1763) was a member of the house of Wettin.
His father was Frederick Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Two of his children were kings of Saxony, his son Frederick Augustus I of Saxony succeeded him.
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 boys clothing: German royalty--Saxony
Saxony in 1485 the land was divided between the brothers Albert and Ernst.
In 1697 Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, was crowned King of Poland.
King John of Saxony was born in 1801.
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Duke Ernst and his son Frederick the Wise received the area of Thuringia, the northern and western parts of the margrave lands of Meißen as well as the rank of Elector.
Dresden became the capital of the Electorate of Saxony in 1485, displacing Meissen, the former principal centre.
Augustus II the Strong (1694-1733), was the architect of the expansion of Dresden and Saxony, wishing to recreate on the banks of the Elbe a city to rival other European centres of the arts.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
Frederick Augustus I, King of Saxony (previously Frederick Augustus III, Elector of Saxony) (December 23, 1750 - May 5, 1827).
He was the grandson of King Augustus III of Poland.
The country was occupied by Russia, and only restored to full sovereignty after a landswap between Russia, Prussia and Saxony, resulting in the loss of two-thirds of the country's territory.
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 AllRefer Encyclopedia - German History, Biographies Encyclopedia
Frederick Augustus I, 1670¢#150;1733, elector of Saxony
Frederick Augustus I, 1750¢#150;1827, king and elector of Saxony
• Maximilian I, 1756¢#150;1825, king and elector of Bavaria
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 August II the Strong Summary
Augustus II the Strong (German: August II der Starke; Polish: August II Mocny) (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733) was as Frederick Augustus I (German: Kurfürst Friedrich August) the Elector of Saxony 1694-1733, and later also King of Poland 1697-1706 and again 1709-1733.
Augustus was born in Dresden, Saxony, as the son of John George III and Princess Anne Sophie of Denmark.
Augustus II successfully set out to discover the secret of "white gold," as the porcelain that he produced at Dresden and Meißen was described.
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* Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans
* Frederick I of Denmark (1471-1533), King of Denmark and Norway
* Frederick IX of Denmark (1899-1972), King of Denmark
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 Frederick Augustus Albert Biography
Albert, King of Saxony (Germany) (1828 - 1902, reigned 1873 - 1902), was born April 23, 1828.
Friedrich August Albrecht was the eldest son of Prince John, nephew of King Anthony Clement of Saxony, who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the throne as King John in 1854.
Albert married in 1853 Carola, daughter of Prince Gustavus of Vasa, and granddaughter of Charles XIII, the last king of Sweden of the house of Holstein-Gottorp.
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 Prince Georg Friedrich Head of Prussian Royal Family Loses Title - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board
William Augustus Theodore Frederick - King of Saxony and Prussia, son of King Augustus Frederick I, King of Saxony and Prussia.
Alexander Theodore Frederick - King of Saxony and Prussia, son of King Theodore William Frederick, King of Saxony and Prussia.
William Frederick - King of Saxony and Prussia, son of Alexander Theodore Frederick, King of Saxony and Prussia.
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 Ancestors and Family of Frederick Augustus I the Strong Wettin
King August II The Strong (German August II der Starke, Polish August II Mocny) (May 12, 1670 - February 1, 1733) was an influential Saxon nobleman and monarch.
Born in Dresden, Saxony, August was born to John George III Wettin and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
Following the death of the Polish king John III Sobieski, August converted to Catholicism and was elected king of Poland in 1697 with help and support of Russia and Austria.
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 Remarks at the Opening of the Exhibition
Saxony was a country of religious tolerance, which was manifested in the reception of exiles from Bohemia and by the exemplary Christian lifestyle of pietists and the Moravians under the leadership of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf, who was also a missionary in America.
Augustus III initiated the construction of the Catholic Hofkirche, a task he assigned to Roman architect Gaetano Chaveri.
Subsequently Elector Frederick August III changed sides; in return, Saxony was upgraded to the status of a kingdom within the Confederation of the Rhine under the control of Napoleon.
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 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS H - Online Information article about FREDERICK AUGUSTUS H
Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)
KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
Prince Frederick Charles was appointed to command the I.
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 Wikinfo | Rulers of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
He was succeeded by the Margrave Frederick of Meissen and Thuringia, of the Wettin Dynasty.
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 Saxony: History
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.
Augustus II (who was Frederick Augustus I as elector of Saxony) as king of Poland; the election led to an economic partnership between the declining Poland and Saxony, whose prestige was thereby diminished.
Saxony: on a par with the pyramids and on a level with Versailles.
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 Von Rautenkranz - Saxony
In fact, when we speak of Saxony in the context of the von Rautenkranz family history it is that Saxony in the central northern part of Germany, roughly comprising present-day Lower-Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, with bits of Schleswig-Holstein, not the area of the present federal state of Saxony surrounding Leipzig and Dresden.
The remaining Eastern lands, together with the title of Duke of Saxony, were passed to members of the Ascanian dynasty and divided in 1260 into the two small states of Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.
Although the centre of this state was far southeast of the former Saxony, it came to be referred to as Upper Saxony and then simply Saxony, while the former Saxon territories were now known as Lower Saxony.
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 Titles of European hereditary rulers
< Frederick I (+1428), Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Misnia; Elector and Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg 1423 >
Frederic-Augustus I "the Strong" (+1733), Elector and Duke of Saxony, was elected King of Poland in 1697.
< Frederick VI (+1839), King of Denmark 1808; Duke of Lauenburg 1814, of Schleswig, of Holstein >
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