The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen or Kursachsen), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806...
54 KB (6,698 words) - 18:04, 1 March 2024
and still later by the Landgraves of Thuringia. When the Wettin landgraves succeeded to the Electorate of Saxony, the two positions merged. The new dukes...
101 KB (987 words) - 17:13, 25 April 2024
the Electorate of Saxony. From 1871, it was part of the German Empire. It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World...
30 KB (2,901 words) - 09:00, 14 April 2024
Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was...
71 KB (6,293 words) - 03:35, 27 May 2024
Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532 from the House of Wettin. He is notable for organising the Lutheran Church in the Electorate of Saxony from a state...
11 KB (988 words) - 01:34, 12 February 2024
of Poland and Saxony, or Saxony-Poland, was the personal union that existed from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 to 1763 between the Electorate of Saxony under...
26 KB (3,138 words) - 00:01, 7 May 2024
influential position in ducal Saxony, and taught a form of Lutheranism different from that taught in the Electorate of Saxony. This breach was widened when...
17 KB (1,930 words) - 10:17, 7 April 2024
succeeded to the electorate on 23 June 1611 on the death of his elder brother, Christian II. The geographical position of the Electorate of Saxony rather than...
14 KB (1,277 words) - 00:37, 3 June 2024
the Electorate of Saxony or receive any land from his older brother Frederick Augustus III, Anton lived under the shadows. No Elector of Saxony after...
12 KB (1,068 words) - 20:54, 27 February 2024
his reign, the first measurement was made of the Electorate of Saxony by Matthias Oeder. Later, the work of Oeder was continued by Balthasar Zimmermann...
6 KB (379 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
elevated to the Electorate of Saxony by the Golden Bull of 1356. The Eastphalian count Otto of Ballenstedt (d. 1123), ancestor of the House of Ascania, had...
13 KB (1,377 words) - 03:57, 19 March 2024
on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2012. See also: Electorate of Saxony and History of Saxony Zur räumlichen Zuordnung des Begriffs "Westfalen/westfälisch"...
62 KB (6,488 words) - 14:57, 23 May 2024
parishes. Electorate of Saxony Lower Saxony – partial modern successor State in Germany Ottonian dynasty Rulers of Saxony Wettin (dynasty) History of cities...
25 KB (3,476 words) - 10:02, 7 April 2024
regency of the electorate until the boy's majority. A son (9 June 1748) Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827) married Amalie of...
9 KB (740 words) - 12:46, 10 March 2024
Ferdinand I, himself wanted to initiate a campaign against the Electorate of Saxony, he had to call it off, in order not to lose the initiative in his...
16 KB (1,834 words) - 00:31, 3 June 2024
the Electorate of Saxony. In 1423 the Electorate was inherited by the Wettin Frederick I, who was also the Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia...
23 KB (3,207 words) - 21:04, 29 April 2024
he began teaching theology at the University of Wittenberg, which was located in the Electorate of Saxony, i.e., inside the territory ruled by Prince-elector...
29 KB (3,331 words) - 21:32, 19 May 2024
of Saxony (1532–1547) and head of the Schmalkaldic League. John Frederick was the eldest son of John, Elector of Saxony by his first wife, Sophie of...
14 KB (1,580 words) - 11:47, 12 February 2024
The following is a partial list of Prussian envoys to the Electorate of Saxony, Kingdom of Saxony and Free State of Saxony. Since the late Middle Ages, family...
7 KB (740 words) - 13:09, 13 April 2024
Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (German: Clemens Wenzeslaus August Hubertus Franz Xaver von Sachsen) (28 September 1739 – 27 July 1812) was a Saxon...
9 KB (563 words) - 14:20, 5 December 2023
line, who ruled the Electorate of Saxony. Frederick's older brother George had married Barbara, a sister of King John I Albert of Poland. The Teutonic...
4 KB (293 words) - 11:56, 7 April 2024
an adult, and Franz Xavier ended his functions as the regent of the Electorate of Saxony. In Dresden on 9 March 1765 Franz Xavier married morganatically...
9 KB (888 words) - 06:28, 15 March 2024
1696 – 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where...
43 KB (4,447 words) - 03:27, 15 April 2024
Upper Saxon Circle (category Circles of the Holy Roman Empire)
Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512. The circle was dominated by the electorate of Saxony (the circle's director) and the electorate of Brandenburg...
8 KB (109 words) - 06:13, 22 January 2024
Ernst in German, was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486. Ernst was the founder and progenitor of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes. Ernst was born...
6 KB (394 words) - 23:44, 2 June 2024
of the Duchesses, Electresses and Queens of Saxony; the consorts of the Duke of Saxony and its successor states; including the Electorate of Saxony,...
118 KB (245 words) - 08:22, 2 March 2024
Ages Electorate of Saxony (1356–1806), a state of the Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Saxony (1806–1918), a state in Germany; successively a member of the...
2 KB (364 words) - 14:32, 10 February 2023
Prince-elector (redirect from Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire)
although the Electorate of Saxony was transferred from the senior to the junior branch of the Wettin family in 1547, in the aftermath of the Schmalkaldic...
38 KB (3,644 words) - 01:02, 20 May 2024
Albertine branch lost about 40% of its lands (the economically less-developed northern parts of the old Electorate of Saxony) to Prussia, restricting it to...
35 KB (2,693 words) - 18:55, 26 March 2024
Casimir of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (11 July 1738, Moritzburg, Electorate of Saxony – 10 February 1822, Vienna) was a Saxon prince from the House of Wettin...
9 KB (695 words) - 19:25, 12 April 2024