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	JOHN GEORGE III. OF SAXONY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN GEORGE III. OF SAXONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		JOHN GEORGE I. (1585-1656), elector of Saxony, second son of the elector Christian I., was born on the 5th of March 1585, succeeding to the electorate in June 1611 on the death of his elder brother, Christian II.
		Although John George was unable to procure his minister's release, Leopold managed to allay the elector's anger, and early in 1693 the Saxon soldiers rejoined the imperialists.
		JOHN1 MAURICE OF NASSAU (1604-1679), surnamed the Brazilian, was the son of John the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen-Dillenburg, and the grandson of John, the elder brother of William the Silent and the chief author of the Union of Utrecht.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_GEORGE_III_OF_SAXONY.htm (2625 words)

	John George III of Saxony
		John George III was born in 1647 to the house of Wettin.
		He was the Elector of Saxony, one of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
		John George III Wettin married Anne Sophia of Denmark.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_George_III_Wettin.html (65 words)

	John III on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		John's death, followed by the choice of the elector of Saxony as King Augustus II of Poland, marked the virtual end of Polish independence.
		John W. Marriott, III, Executive Vice President/Lodging, of Marriott International, Inc., welcomed the newest addition to the Marriott family, the Courtyard by Marriott Warsaw International Airport...
		John Darrell Comito III of Plano, Texas, was injured May 14, 2005, when a suicide bomber got near his patrol and set off a blast.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/John3pol.asp (664 words)

	John George III, Elector of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John George III (20 June 1647 - 12 September 1691) was born into the house of Wettin.
		He was the Elector of Saxony, one of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire, succeeding his father, John George II in 1680.
		Their son, Frederick Augustus (the Strong), succeeded as ruler of Saxony and was elected king of Poland in 1697.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_George_III_of_Saxony (132 words)

	Courtly Lives - The Wettin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Frederick I (Wettin) "the Warlike" was an elector of Saxony.
		John George II (Wettin) of Saxony was norn on June 10, 1613 and died September 11, 1680.
		John George III (Wettin) of Saxony was born June 30, 1647 and died September 22, 1691.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/WettinTree.html (221 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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.
		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.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13497b.htm (7923 words)

	August II of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		August II the Strong (1670-1733) (Polish: August II Mocny), Elector of Saxony (1694-1733, as Frederick August I), king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1697-170/1706 and 1709-1733).
		Parents: John George III Wettin, elector of Saxony 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.
	usapedia.com /a/august-ii-of-poland.html (323 words)

	LAUENBURG - LoveToKnow Article on LAUENBURG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		About the middle of the 12th century the country was subdued by the duke of Saxony, Henry the Lion, who founded a bishopric at Ratzeburg, and after Henrys fall in 1180 it formed part of the smaller duchy of Saxony, which was governed by Duke Bernhard.
		John, and had its own lines of dukes for over 400 years, one of them, Magnus I. (d.
		Both entered the country, but George William proved himself the stronger and occupied Ratzeburg; having paid a substantial sum of money to the elector, he was recognized by the inhabitants as their duke.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAUENBURG.htm (623 words)

	Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Augustus_II_of_Poland (892 words)

	August II of Poland
		August II (also called Augustus II the Strong or August II Mocny) was born on May 12, 1670 to John George III Wettin, elector of Saxony and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
		Following the death of the Polish king John III Sobieski, from 1697-1704 and from 1709-1733 he was the king of Poland as August II of Poland.
		One of his sons, Augustus III of Poland[?], followed him as Elector of Saxony and as King of Poland.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/August_II_of_Poland.html (201 words)

	poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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 King John III of Sweden and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland, Sigismund III was born June 20, 1566, in Gripsholm, Sweden.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/poland.htm (4614 words)

	Kingdoms of Germany - Saxony
		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 title of the duchy of Saxony had passed to the Margraves of Meissen, a march county between the original Saxon lands and Poland.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanySaxons.htm (525 words)

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		The Elector soon after followed in person, to receive the homage of those whom he had newly taken under his protection; for it was only in the character of protector that the three towns of Prague had surrendered to him.
		John George belied not the submission and dependence with which the terror of the imperial name inspired him; nor did he indulge at Prague, in a course of conduct which would assuredly have been pursued against himself in Dresden, by imperial generals, such as Tilly or Wallenstein.
		Saxony had been stripped of troops by Arnheim, who was pursuing his conquests in Silesia; not without a secret design, it was generally supposed, of favouring the entrance of the Duke of Friedland into that electorate, and of thus driving the irresolute John George into peace with the Emperor.
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		It was therefore determined by the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave William to remove her from the custody of the Nassaus.
		Count John was unceasing in his exhortations to his brother to respect the sensitiveness of these important personages, and to remember how much good and how much evil it was in their power to compass, with regard to himself and to the great cause of the Protestant religion.
		Count John, who was seriously embarrassed by reason of the great obligations in money which he, with the rest of his family, had incurred on behalf of the estates, had recently made application to the Prince for his influence towards procuring him relief.
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	JOHN GEORGE III, ELECTOR OF SAXONY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		John George III (20_June 1647 - 12_September 1691) was born into the house of Wettin.
		He was the Elector_of_Saxony, one of the electors of the Holy_Roman_Empire, succeeding his father, John_George_II in 1680.
		John George III married Anne Sophia of Denmark (1647-1717), daughter of Frederick_III_of_Denmark and Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-LÃ¼neburg.
	www.witwib.com /John_George_III,_Elector_of_Saxony (114 words)

	Encyclopedia: John George I
		The Wettin dynasty of German counts, dukes, Prince Electors (Kurfürsten) and kings ruled the area of todays German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding for a time the kingship of Poland.
		List of Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Saxony, 880-1918 The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony and Westphalia.
		Brühls Terrace and the Frauenkirche Dresden [ˈdreːsdn̩] (Sorbian/Lusatian Drježdźany), the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-George-I (345 words)

	Frederick III Elector of Saxony Elector Saxony House of Wettin Martin Luther Philipp Melanchthon Holy Roman Emperor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Albert, Duke of Bavaria.
		elector and duke of Saxony, eldest son of the elector Frederick I., was born on the...
		Frederick I, elector of Brandenburg Frederick I, elector of Saxony Frederick III, elector of Saxony Frederick, city, United States Frederick Augustus I, 1750—1827, king and elector of Saxony Frederick...
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	saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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).
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/saxony.htm (1914 words)

	Courtly Lives - Augustus II Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
		He died January 31, 1733, He was Elector of Saxony (as Friedrich August I) and King of Poland from 1697-1704 and again from 1709-1733.
		However, Georg died of smallpox in 1694, and Augustus was made the prince-elector of Saxony, in the same year.
		After the death, in 1696, of John III Sobieski, the King of Poland (Augustus) was separated by a wide strip of Austrian and Prussian territory.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/AugustII.html (1177 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1694-1740
		The conflict between Duke and Estates, which had begun under John George IV., continued; in 1709 the Land's Deputation was abolished, in 1711 the authority of the estates limired.
		In Saxony, a state bureaucracy was established - a Secret Cabinet in c.1704, in 1706 a General War Tribunal, in 1707 an Auditioning College, in 1718 a State Construction Authority.
		Saxony was presented by permanent diplomatic missions in Vienna, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris etc.; Dresden was King Frederick Augustis' main residence.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/saxony16941740.html (873 words)

	Political instability, 1760-70 (from George III) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the five-act historical drama Richard III, William Shakespeare presents one of the earliest and most vivid of his sympathetic villains.
		In a tribute to his loyalty and teamwork in government service, George Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States in 1988.
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2636?tocId=2636 (809 words)

	Footnotes; Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Volume III: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The qualifications for an elector are that of having been on the electoral roll for six months, and of having arrived at twenty-one years of age; and the qualifications for members are the same.
		No electoral property qualification is required for graduates of British universities, matriculated students of the Melbourne university, ministers of religion of all denominations, certificated schoolmasters, lawyers, medical practitioners, and officers of the army and navy.
		The number of electors on the roll of the legislative council was increased by the action of the bill of 1881 from 33,105 to about 110,000; the number of electors for the legislative assembly was 176,022, according to the latest returns.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCyNotes3.html (17887 words)

	August II of Poland : Frederick Augustus I of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.
		Following the death of the Polish king III Sobieski">John III Sobieski, from 1697-1704 and from 1709-1733 he was the king of Poland as August II of Poland.
		One of his sons, III of Poland">Augustus III of Poland[?], followed him as Elector of Saxony and as King of Poland.
	www.city-search.org /fr/frederick-augustus-i-of-poland.html (554 words)

	Augustus, II Biography / Biography of Augustus, II Biography Biography
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		Augustus II (1670-1733), called Augustus the Strong, was elector of Saxony and king of Poland.
		On May 12, 1670, Augustus was born Frederick August of Wettin, in Dresden, the second son of the Saxon elector John George III.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-augustus-ii/index.html (549 words)

	George III (from George, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The long, and mostly unhappy, reign of George III encompassed some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
		More results on "George III (from George, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland)" when you join.
		George V and George VI belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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	JOHN GEORGE III - Online Information article about JOHN GEORGE III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Saxony, the only son of John George II., was See also:
		Leopold I. after the victory, he returned at once to Saxony.
		Germany in September 1688 John George was one of the first to take up arms against the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JOHN_GEORGE_III.html (323 words)

	CHAPTER III
		Tetzel approached the dominions of the Elector of Saxony, who was himself a devout worshiper of relics, and had great confidence in indulgences, but would not let him enter his territory from fear that he might take too much money from his subjects.
		But the Elector, who was one of the most powerful and esteemed princes of Germany, felt unwilling to sacrifice the shining light of his beloved university, and arranged a peaceful interview with the papal legate at the Diet of Augsburg on promise of kind treatment and safe return.
		He arrived Oct. 7, 1518, and was kindly received by Dr. Conrad Peutinger and two counselors of the Elector, who advised him to behave with prudence, and to observe the customary rules of etiquette.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/history/7_ch03.htm (9382 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1738
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