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	Wikipedia: Wettin
		The Wettin dynasty of German counts, dukes and kingss ruled the area of today's German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding for a time the kingship of Poland.
		One of the resulting Ernestine houses, that of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, went on to contribute kings of Belgium (from 1831) and Bulgaria (1908 - 1946), as well as furnishing consorts to queens of Portugal and the United Kingdom (Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria).
		Wettin is also the name of the city from which the Wettin dynasty originated, see Wettin (city).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/we/wettin.html (270 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Historians traditionally recount China's story within a framework of successive dynasties A similar pattern happened in Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire, and dynasties such as the Carolingians, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Stuarts, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs successively and together dominated much of European political history.
		Until the nineteenth century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate function of a monarch was to aggrandize his dynasty, that is, to increase the territory, wealth and power of family members.
		A ruler in a dynasty is sometimes referred to as a dynast, but this term is also used to describe any member of a reigning family who retains succession rights to a throne.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/dynasty (978 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wettin
		A possession of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin, it passed in the 16th cent.
		The name Wettin, family name of Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria, was changed to Windsor by George V in 1917.
		A possession of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin, it was given by Ernest the Pious (d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wettin (595 words)

	Informat.io on Wettin Dynasty
		The Wettin dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors (Kurfürsten) and kings ruled the area of today's German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding for a time the kingship of Poland.
		Agnates of the House of Wettin have, at various times, ascended to the thrones of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland, Saxony, and Belgium; of these, only the British and Belgian lines retain their thrones today.
		The Ernestine Wettins, on the other hand, repeatedly subdivided their territory, creating an intricate patchwork of small duchies and counties in Thuringia.
	www.informat.io /?title=wettin-dynasty (539 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Sachsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1137 Saxony was passed to the Welfen[?] dynasty.
		The small remains were passed to an Ascanian dynasty and were divided in 1260 into the two mini states of Saxony-Lauenburg and Saxony-Wittenberg.
		Saxony-Wittenberg (in present Saxony-Anhalt) became subject to the margravate of Meißen (ruled by the Wettin dynasty) in 1423.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/sa/Sachsen (715 words)

	Saxony Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first Duchy of Saxony emerged about 700 in a region, which is completely different from the present state of Saxony: It was located in today's Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
		In the 10th century the dukes of Saxony were at the same time kings (or emperors) of the Holy Roman Empire (Ottonian or Saxon Dynasty).
		In 1180 large portions west of the Elbe had to be ceased to the bishops of Cologne (these lands later formed the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg).
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sa/saxony.html (717 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Rulers of Saxony
		The Ascanian Dynasty continued at Lauenburg until 1689, but after the Lauenburg line had finally lost the Electorate to the Wittenberg line in 1356 and failed to obtain the succession in the Electorate after 1422, recognition of the Lauenburg line as Duke of Saxony waned.
		After the Wittenberg line of the Ascanians became extinct, the Electorate was given to Frederick, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia, of the Wettin Dynasty.
		Saxony became a republic with the demise of the German Empire in 1918.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Rulers_of_Saxony (673 words)

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		dynasty of nearby Meissen, the nucleus of the later duchy and kingdom...of the house of
	www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Wettin (199 words)

	Courtly Lives - The Wettin Dynasty (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frederick I (Wettin) "the Warlike" was an elector of Saxony.
		Frederick II (Wettin) "the Gentle" was the Duke of Saxony.
		John George II (Wettin) of Saxony was norn on June 10, 1613 and died September 11, 1680.
	www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mi4/polcrt/WettinTree.html (230 words)

	Von Rautenkranz - Saxony
		In 1137 Saxony was passed to the Welfen dynasty, who were descendants (1) of Wulfhild Billung, eldest daughter of the last Billung duke, and (2) of the daughter of Lothar of Supplinburg.
		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.
		Saxe-Wittenberg, in present Saxony-Anhalt, became subject to the margravate of Meissen and ruled by the Wettin dynasty in 1423.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Archive/insite/Rautenkranz/saxony.htm (771 words)

	Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Dresden (D)
		Around 1500 Dresden became the residence of the margraves of Meißen and dukes of Saxony from the Wettin dynasty (see chart of the Wettin dynasty).
		The crypt beneath the church holds the tombs of members of the Wettin dynasty.
		In 1889–1901 the castle was remodeled in Renaissance revival style on the occasion of the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of the Wettin dynasty.
	www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-716.htm (1510 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wettin (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Wettin[vet´in] Pronunciation Key, German dynasty, which ruled in Saxony, Thuringia, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, and Bulgaria.
		In 1918, when the house of Wettin was deposed in Thuringia and Saxony, its Thuringian holdings consisted of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, a grand duchy (see under Saxe-Weimar), and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (see under Saxe-Coburg), Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Altenburg, which were duchies.
		The English house changed its name to Windsor; the Bulgarian branch was deposed in 1946.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wettin.html (382 words)

	The maps in this section show the history of Germany and its unification in the Nineteenth Century in more detail than ...
		Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was inherited by Arthur Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria and Albert's son, and later by Charles-Edward, Duke of Albany, a grandson of Queen Victoria and Albert.
		The present King of the Belgians, Albert II is a representative of this dynasty.
		The Schauenburg inheritance in Holstein fell to the House of Oldenburg by marriage.
	home.versatel.nl /gerardvonhebel/gdetails.htm (1811 words)

	Courtly lives - The Wettin Dynasty (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Wettins were a German dynastical family that ruled in Saxony, Thuringia, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, Portugal, and Bulgaria.
		He become the elector of Saxony, in 1425 and was called Frederick I. The Wettin holdings were then divided (in 1485) between Frederick II's sons: Ernest and Albert, "the Bold" of Saxony who was born July 31m 1443.
		The county of Altenburg became a possession of the Wettin family in 1328.
	www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mi4/polcrt/Wettin.html (793 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - - ARCHIVE - Ducal Court of Saxony
		The margraves of Meissen acquired (13th—14th cent.) the larger parts of Thuringia and of Lower Lusatia and the intervening territories, and in 1423 Margrave Frederick the Warlike added Electoral Saxony; he became (1425) Elector Frederick I. Thus, Saxony shifted to E central and E Germany from NW Germany.
		Friedrich von Wettin, Regent of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen
		Sisigmund von Wettin of Saxony, son of Friedrich I of Saxony
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=108053 (8121 words)

	Grand Ducal Standards until 1918 (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany)
		Thuringia was ruled by the Dukes of Thuringia-Hesse until 1247 and since it has been part of Saxony and most rulers over (parts of) Saxony from the Wettin dynasty used the striped lion in their arms.
		The second quarter shows the lion of the County of Meissen, also one of the original possessions of the Wettin dynasty.
		The County of Hennenberg is also one of the oldest possessions of the Wettin dynasty, but the arms of Arenshaugk stand for the Neustadt district, one of the additions to Saxe-Weimar in 1815.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-sw^gd.html (507 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1547-1618
		With the exception of some Thuringian territory, the lands the WETTIN DYNASTY owned before the Leipzig partition of 1485 were reunited under his rule.
		Duke Alberts testament of the indivisibility of the lands of the Albertine line of the Wettin Dynasty (of 1499) now applied for the entire territory, from now on referred to as Electoral Saxony.
		In foreign policy, Duke Albrecht leant on the Habsburg Dynasty, a policy which provided Saxony with the serenity necessary for her economy to flourish.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/saxony15471618.html (1135 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Rulers of Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was succeeded by the Margrave Frederick of Meissen and Thuringia, of the Wettin Dynasty.
		(on Frederick II's death, the Wettin territories were divided between his sons.
		Heads of the House of Wettin since 1918
	encyclopedia.kids.net.au /page/ru/Rulers_of_Saxony (355 words)

	Deutsche Wappen - German Civic Heraldry - SACHSEN-COBURG-GOTHA
		One of the four newly formed duchies was Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, all ruled by different branches of the Wettin dynasty.
		Thüringen was ruled by the Dukes of Thüringen-Hessen until 1247 and since it has been part of Sachsen and most rulers over (parts of) Sachsen from the Wettin dynasty used the striped lion in their arms.
		The County Hennenberg is also one of the oldest possessions of the Wettin dynasty.
	www.ngw.nl /int/dld/sachsenc.htm (308 words)

	Deutsche Wappen - German Civic Heraldry - SACHSEN-ALTENBURG
		One of the four newly formed duchies was Sachsen-Altenburg, all four duchies, however, were ruled by different branches of the Wettin dynasty.
		The area was ruled by a different branch of the Wettin family, the Lords of Sachsen-Eisenberg, but it still belonged to Sachsen-Gotha (-Altenburg).
		It became a possession of the Wettin family in 1328.
	www.ngw.nl /int/dld/sachsalt.htm (274 words)

	contiunation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		i / ’wettin’ as in wettin-coburg MAY be bonded to ‘white’....
		were wettins in royal genealogy -- 900 years or so before victoria married wettin-coburg albert.
		Wettin Albert the Wise was one of the German nobles
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	Columbia Encyclopedia- Wettin - AOL Research & Learn
		Columbia Encyclopedia- Wettin - AOL Research & Learn
		, German dynasty, which ruled in Saxony, Thuringia, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, and Bulgaria.
		From the branch of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha the Belgian, the English, and the Bulgarian dynasties were descended through, respectively, Leopold I of the Belgians, Prince Albert (consort of Queen Victoria), and Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/wettin/20051208004909990013 (288 words)

	Coljs - map
		These states are the result of the split in royal lines in Saxony, The Wettin dynasty in 1547.
		The junior Albertine line took over Saxony and the senior Ernestine line got the Thüringian area and sub-divided it many times among themselves.
		Postcards and postcard art from author's archive except Bernhard from the collection of Mike Dwyer.
	www.pickelhauben.net /map/thueringen.htm (259 words)

	boys clothing: French Bourbon royalty -- Louis XVI
		Louis XVI's mother was Marie-Josephe (Wettin) de Saxe (1731-).
		The Wettin dynasty is more familiar to us as the male founder of the current British royal family.
		Her father was Frederick Augustus II (Wettin) of Saxony, King of Poland (1696-).
	histclo.com /royal/fra/l16/l16.htm (1428 words)

	(GCKDWC) Brachwitzer Alpen by spinnne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Brachwitz und später in Wettin gibt es Fähren über die Saale.
		Viel Spaß beim Suchen und eine schöne Aussicht.Brachwitz lies half way between the city Halle, Handel's birthplace, and the small town Wettin, famous for the Wettin dynasty.
		There are ferries over the river Saale in Brachwitz and in Wettin.
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