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  Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 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), the brilliant French military commander.
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 AUGUSTUS II. (FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I.) - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUSTUS II. (FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Augustus was on a visit to Denmark when by Maurices P ath in July 1553 he became elector of Saxony.
Augustus also entered ci to communication with the Huguenots; but his aversion to m reign complications prevailed, and the incipient friendship p1 ith the elector palatine soon gave way to serious dislike.
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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 Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Frederick II
Frederick's sole desire was for peace in Germany, even if to secure this he had to make the greatest sacrifices; and for this reason, he granted to the ecclesiastical and temporal lords a series of privileges, which subsequently developed into the independent sovereignty of these princes.
Frederick had also been obliged to acknowledge the pope as his overlord in Sicily, thus abandoning his father's cherished hopes of uniting Sicily with the imperial crown of Germany, though the attempts of the pope to entirely nullify this "personal union" were far from successful.
Frederick sought to weaken the hostile bishops by favouring the secular princes and granting privileges to the cities.
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 Augustus III of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Augustus III (Polish: August III Sas) (1696-1763), the King of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1734-1763), and also elector of Saxony (1733-1763, as Friedrich August II)
Friedrich August II Wettin was born in Dresden in 1696 as son of August II the Strong, Imperial Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
August II was disinterested in the affairs of his Polish dominion, which he viewed mostly as a source of funds and resources for strenghtening his power in Saxony.
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Frederick Augustus II (1797-1854), king of Saxony (1836-54), nephew of King Frederick Augustus I and King Anthony, born in Dresden.
Frederick II (of Prussia) : associates and contemporaries: Frederick Augustus I
Frederick II (of Prussia), called The Great (1712-86), king of Prussia (1740-86); during his reign, he was considered among the most notable of...
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 FREDERICK THE GREAT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick II the Great, third king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, ranks among the two or three dominant figures in the history of modern Germany.
Frederick's upbringing and education were strictly controlled by his father, who was a martinet as well as a paranoiac.
Frederick William I deeply despised the artistic and intellectual tastes of his son and was infuriated by Frederick's lack of sympathy with his own rigidly puritanical and militaristic outlook.
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 poland
Augustus II (1670-1733) `the Strong´ Elector of Saxony (1694-1733) and King of Poland (1697-1733).
Augustus III (1696-1763) Elector of Saxony and King of Poland 1733-63.
The son of Wladyslaw II by his fourth wife, he succeeded his father at the age of 10 and was elected king of Hungary at age 16.
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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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 George II of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George II (George Augustus) (10 November 1683–25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.
George II succeeded to the throne at the time of his father's death on June 11, 1727, but a battle of wills continued with his son and heir, The Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales.
James II's son, James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender") had attempted two prior rebellions; the rebellion of 1715 ("the Fifteen") was after he fled to France, and the rebellion of 1719 ("the Nineteen") was so weak that it was almost farcial.
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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.
Marie married Frederick Augustus II of Saxony WETTIN on 20 Aug 1719.
Frederick Christian of Saxony WETTIN was born 5 Sep 1722 and died 17 Dec 1763.
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 Frederick Augustus II of Saxony
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 1854.
On September 26, 1819 Frederick Augustus II married Archduchess Caroline of Austria, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
He was succeeded by his brother, Johann I. In 1848 revolutionary diturbances broke out in the Kingdom, forcing Frederick Augustus to flee to Austria.
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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.
He was succeeded by his brother, Johann I. In 1849 revolutionary disturbances broke out in the Kingdom, forcing Frederick Augustus to flee to Königstein fortress.
The May Uprising was crushed by Saxon and Prussian troops and Frederick was able to return after only a few days.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1644 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Frederick Augustus I the Strong WETTIN [Parents] was born 22 May 1670.
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony WETTIN was born 17 Oct 1696 and died 5 Oct 1763.
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony WETTIN was born 23 Dec 1750.
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 Augustus II, Frederick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Augustus II, Frederick, b 12 May 1670 in Dresden, d 31 January 1733 in Warsaw.
Augustus signed the Treaty of Karlowitz with Turkey in 1699, by which Poland regained Podilia and
As a result of the Swedish victory over the Polish army in 1704 Augustus was forced to renounce the throne in favor of
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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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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Augustus II @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Frederick Augustus II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick Augustus II (1797-1854), king of Saxony (1836-1854), nephew of King Frederick Augustus I and King Anthony, born in Dresden.
Frederick Augustus I, called The Just (1750-1827), first king of Saxony (1806-1827), and, as Frederick Augustus III, elector of Saxony (1763-1806),...
Frederick II (of Prussia), called The Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia (1740-1786).
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 WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1694-1740
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 had a number of illegitimate children, of which Maurice de Saxe, son of Aurora von Koenigsmarck, later would gain fame as French general.
Frederick Augustus I. pursuied a policy of religious toleration, permitted the settlement of Jews and of Moravian Brethren in Saxony.
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 August II of Poland : Frederick Augustus I of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
August II (also called Augustus II the Strong or August II Mocny) was born on May 12, 1670 to III Wettin">John George III Wettin, elector of Saxony and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
August II was called August the Strong for his bearlike strength and also for his supposedly numerous offspring.
It was once written that Augustus II ‘had as many bastards as there are days in the year, minus one’..
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 AllRefer.com - Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony, German History, Biographies
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.
As Frederick Christian's son, Frederick Augustus III., was still a minor, Frederick Christian's brother XAVER was appointed regent (1763-1768).
It had been conceived as an alternative to the traditional gymnasium; while the latter focussed on the classic languages, the curriculum of the realschule was to include modern languages and place higher emphasis on mathematics and sciences.
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 Augustus Supersite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nita Augustus - Juanita Sue Pierce Augustus, daughter of Albert Reynolds Pierce and Emma Lou Pierce, was born Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Augustus Gauger - History of Rural Free Delivery Farmington Poet Augustus Gauger was a young architect beginning his career when he was commissioned by Claus Dittmann to design the Bank of Farmington in.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Augustus II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Augustus II (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Frederick Augustus succeeded his brother to become Elector of Saxony in 1694,...
Stanislas II Augustus, also called Stanislas Poniatowski (1732-1798), last king of Poland (1764-1795).
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 The Dresden Green Diamond
This ruler, known as Augustus the Strong, was responsible for the construction of some great buildings in Dresden, which he duly filled with great collections of rare and expensive treasures - sculptures, paintings, and objets d'art.
Frederick Augustus set aside a group of rooms in Dresden Castle to house his collection of jewels and other treasures, and named them the Green Vault, their interior decoration being trusted to Persian designers.
Neither George I nor Frederick Augustus I purchased the green diamond; instead it was the latter's son, Frederick Augustus II (1733-1763) who became its first royal owner.
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 Simon Sackett's Ancestors and Descendants - pafg128.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
George Augustus II Chapman (Laura Susanna Shepard, Charles Shepard, Bohan Shepard, Elizabeth Sacket, Benoni Sacket, Samuel Sacket, John, Simon, Thomas, Thomas) was born on 29 Dec 1876 in Morristown, St. Lawrence Co., NY.
Frederick Charles Sackett (William Francis, Francis, William, William, Henry, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Thomas) was born in 1870 in Broadstairs.
Frederick married Jessie Cousland in 1894 in Thanet.
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 The Early American Reception of German Idealism - Rauch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frederick Augustus Rauch’s Psychology; or, a view of the Human Soul; including Anthropology (1840) is remembered primarily because it was the first book on Hegelian psychology to be published in English and the first book published in the United States with the word “psychology”—as opposed to “mental” or “intellectual philosophy”—in the title.
His mother, Fredericke Karoline Rauch, who died within a fortnight of his birth, was the daughter of a minister of the Reformed Church.
Frederick’s father delayed his son’s formal education, apparently because of the boy’s poor health, but at age twelve he entered the Gymnasium at Hanau, where, for three years, he studied classical languages and literature and displayed significant intellectual ability.
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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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 Antiques Militaria Resources
Frederick William IV added civil class in 1842 reserved for scholars, men of letters, painters, sculptors, and musicians, which continues to be confered by a private council.
Established by the Elector Frederick II in 1440 and renewed by Frederick William IV 24.12.1843.
Established by the Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the Grand Duke Fredierck William of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 12.5.1864.
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