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  Frederick Augustus II of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, whose full name was His Majesty Friedrich August II Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xaver Franz de Paula Veneantius King of Saxony, (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 II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Augustus II, nicknamed "the Strong" (May 12, 1670–February 1, 1733; (Polish: August II Mocny; German: August II der Starke) was Elector of Saxony (where he was known as Frederick Augustus I) from 1694 to 1733 and King of Poland from 1697 to 1704 and again from 1709 to 1733.
Born in Dresden in Saxony, Frederick Augustus was the son of John George III and.
Although he was unsuccessful in his attempt to make the Polish kingdom hereditary, his eldest son, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, followed him as King of Poland as Augustus III, although he had to be installed by a Russian army in the War of the Polish Succession.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saxony
John Frederick was defeated and captured by Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg on the Elbe, 24 April, 1547.
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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 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Augustus I (or III) of Saxony (December 23, 1750 - May 5, 1827).
He succeeded his father, Frederick Christian, in December 1763, as Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (from the House of Wettin).
He was the grandson of polish king Augustus III of Poland.
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 AUGUSTUS II. (FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I.) - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUSTUS II. (FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Augustus was on a visit to Denmark when by Maurices P ath in July 1553 he became elector of Saxony.
As a ruler of Saxony Augustus was economical and enlightened.
Augustus, who showed neither talent r inclination fOr government, was content to leave Poland ider the influence of Russia, and Saxony to the rule of his inisters.
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 KONIGSTEIN - LoveToKnow Article on KONIGSTEIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, situated in a deep valley on the left bank of the Elbe, at the influx of the Biela, in the centre of Saxon Switzerland, 2.5 m.
In 1401 it passed to the margraves of Meissen and by the treaty of Eger in 1459 it was formally ceded by Bohemia to Saxony.
During the Prussian invasion of Saxony in 1756 it served as a place of refuge for the King of Poland, Augustus III., as it did also in 5849, during the Dresden insurrection of May in that year, to the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II.
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 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(1797-1854), king of Saxony, eldest son of Prince Maximilian and of Caroline Maria Theresa of Parma, was born on the 18th of May 1797.
During the government of his uncles (Frederick Augustus I. and Anthony) he took no part in the administration of the country, though he was the sole heir to the crown.
Frederick Augustus devoted his leisure hours chiefly to the study of botany.
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 War of the Polish Succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1732 Empress Anna of Russia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and King Frederick William I of Prussia, irritated with Augustus but unwilling to allow Stanislas to become king, decided to jointly back the candidacy of Emmanuel of Portugal for the Polish throne.
Augustus II died on February 1, 1733, and the Polish nobles, led by primate Teodor Potocki, gathered for the election.
Augustus was confirmed as king of Poland, Stanislas being compensated with the Duchy of Lorraine (which would thus pass, on his death, through his daughter to the French), while the former Duke of Lorraine, Francis Stephen, was made heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, which he inherited in 1737.
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 Encyclopedia: Frederick Augustus I of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1805, shortly before the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, he became King of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years).
Frederick Augustus I was also Grandduke of the Grandduchy of Warsaw 1807 - 1815) (as Fryderyk August I).
Anthony Clement of Saxony Wettin was born in 1755.
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King Frederick Augustus III of SAXONY was born in 1865 in Saxony - son of George.
George of SAXONY was born in 1893 in Saxony - son of Frederick Augustus III.
Ernest Henry of SAXONY was born in 1896 in Saxony - son of Frederick Augustus III.
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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 modelled his court after that of Versailles; ballet, theatre, opera performances, balls attracted artists and noblemen from far beyond the Saxon borders.
Frederick Augustus I. pursuied a policy of religious toleration, permitted the settlement of Jews and of Moravian Brethren in Saxony.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
York, Frederick Augustus, duke of York, Frederick Augustus, duke of, 1763-1827, second son of George III of England.
Frederick Augustus I Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony: see Augustus II, king of Poland.
Frederick Augustus II Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony: see Augustus III, king of Poland.
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 WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1740-1789
Saxony's lack of weight in international diplomacy was expressed by the fact that Prussia's Frederick the Great, by refusing to negotiate with Saxon prime minister von Brühl, in effect influenced the representation and policy of Saxony.
Although Saxony had not lost any territory, the Seven Years War had been the worst disaster the country had suffered since the Thirty Years' War; during the 7 Years War, the Prussians had pressed 48,000,000 Talers in contributions (designated as such) out of the Saxons; the complete figure is higher.
As Frederick Christian's son, Frederick Augustus III., was still a minor, Frederick Christian's brother XAVER was appointed regent (1763-1768).
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Augustus II @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
AUGUSTUS II [Augustus II] 1670-1733, king of Poland (1697-1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694-1733).
With help from Patkul, Augustus allied himself (1699) with Peter I of Russia and Frederick IV of Denmark for an attack on young Charles XII of Sweden.
After his death, the ascension of his son and successor in Saxony, Augustus III, to the Polish throne was unsuccessfully contested by Stanislaus I, who was backed by France.
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 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I OF SAXONY FACTS AND INFORMATION
Frederick Augustus I (or III) of Saxony (December_23, 1750 - May_5, 1827).
In 1805, shortly before the abolition of the Holy_Roman_Empire in 1806, he became King of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. Frederick Augustus I was also Grandduke of the Grandduchy of Warsaw 1807 - 1815) (as ''Fryderyk August I'').
In 1769, he married Amalie Countess Palatine of the Rhine von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and had a daughter, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782-1863).
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg181 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony WETTIN [Parents] was born 17 Oct 1696.
Frederick Christian of Saxony WETTIN was born 5 Sep 1722 and died 17 Dec 1763.
Mary Amalia Saxony WETTIN was born 24 Nov 1724 and died 27 Sep 1760.
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 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony : Frederick Augustus I King of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (December 23, 1750 - May 5, 1827).
He succeeded his father, Frederick Christian of Saxony, in December 1763, as Elector and King of Saxony.
Frederick Augustus I was also Duke of Warsaw.
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 Frederick Augustus II --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Frederick Augustus shared the regency with his uncle, King Anton, from 1830 to 1836, when he succeeded to the throne.
Called Philip Augustus (from the Latin augere, “to increase”) because he enlarged the boundaries of the state, Philip II was a contemporary of Richard the Lion-Hearted of England and the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I (Frederick Barbarossa).
His reign, like that of his grandfather Frederick I, was filled with conflict: wars for control of his Kingdom of Sicily; war against the Lombard League, a confederation of cities in northern Italy; the rebellion of his own son Henry VII and other German...
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 War of the Polish Succession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This group elected Frederick Augustus King of Poland as Augustus III of PolandAugustus III/.
A preliminary peace was concluded in October 1735 and ratified in the Treaty of Vienna (1738)Treaty of Vienna (November 1738).
Augustus was confirmed as king of Poland, Stanislas being compensated with the Duchy of Lorraine (which would thus pass, on his death, through his daughter to the French), while the former Duke of Lorraine, Francis I, Holy Roman EmperorFrancis Stephen, was made heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, which he inherited in 1737.
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 Augustus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Under his administration Saxony enjoyed economic and commercial prosperity at a time when commerce in Germany as a whole was decaying.
The 24th vice-president of the United States was Garret Augustus Hobart, who served from 1897 to 1899 in the Republican administration of William McKinley.
The son of a French shoemaker, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was part of a new movement in the arts in the late 19th century.
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 Articles - Augustus II of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Dresden in Saxony, Frederick Augustus was the son of John George III and Princess Anne Sophie of Denmark.
Charles defeated Augustus at Riga on June 17, 1701, forcing the Polish-Saxon army to withdraw from Livonia, and followed this up by an invasion of Poland, seizing Warsaw on May 14, 1702, defeating the Polish-Saxon army again at Kliszow, and seizing Kraków.
Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, Augustus II did father a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of whom was Maurice, comte de Saxe (his son by Aurora von Königsmarck), the brilliant French military commander.
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 King Frederick Augustus of Saxony and diplomatic suite by Lafayette 1897   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
SAXONY, HRH PRINCE FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF Neg.
Subject: HRH Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony and diplomatic suite.
King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865-1932), when Prince Frederick Augustus.
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 Articles - Duchy of Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie in Polish, Duché de Varsovie in French, Herzogtum Warschau in German) 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.
King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony was compelled by Napoleon to make his new realm a constitutional monarchy, with a parliament (the Sejm).
However, the duchy was never allowed to develop as a truly independent state; Frederick Augustus' rule was subordinated to the requirements of the French raison d'état, who largely treated the state as a source of resources.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lindbergh Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner, who was the first person to make a non-stop solo...
Frederick Augustus I, called The Just (1750-1827), first king of Saxony (1806-1827), and, as Frederick Augustus III, elector of Saxony (1763-1806),...
Stanislas II Augustus, also called Stanislas Poniatowski (1732-1798), last king of Poland (1764-1795).
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 Augustus II
Augustus II Augustus II, 1670–1733, king of Poland (1697–1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694–1733).
Augustus III - Augustus III, 1696–1763, king of Poland (1735–63) and, as Frederick Augustus II,...
Frederick Augustus I, 1670–1733, elector of Saxony - Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony: see Augustus II, king of Poland.
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 James Sobieski - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the end, Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, who renounced Lutheranism and converted to Catholicism in order to qualify, was crowned as Augustus II, King of Poland on September 1, 1697.
It was the first time that a deceased monarch's son had not been elected to succeed him; that the rightful candidate had been debarred from the throne by military force; and that the Poles had acquired a German king, which went against a long tradition of keeping German hegemony at arm's length.
Augustus II’s first act as king was to expel the prince of Conti from the country.
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 Frederick Augustus I, 1750-1827, king and elector of Saxony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Frederick Augustus I, 1750-1827, king and elector of Saxony.
Frederick Augustus I, 1750–1827, king and elector of Saxony
Frederick Augustus did not abandon his alliance with Napoleon in time and as a result lost a large part of Saxony to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna (1815).
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 Augustus III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
When the Seven Years War began (1756) with a surprise attack on Saxony, Augustus fled to Poland; he returned to Dresden only after the war was over (1763).
His grandson became elector of Saxony (and later, as Frederick Augustus I, king), but Stanislaus II was elected king of Poland with Russian support.
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Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
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