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    The House of Wettin (German: Haus Wettin) was a dynasty of German kings, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day...
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  • known as Thierry) was a nobleman in the Duchy of Saxony, and the oldest traceable member of the House of Wettin. Theodoric was born in the early 10th century...
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  • Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of Germany (not Wettin) 1298–1307 Albert of Habsburg, King of Germany (not Wettin) 1298–1307 Theodoric IV, Margrave of Lusatia...
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    new coat-of-arms of Saxony (). The later rulers of the House of Wettin adopted the Ascanian coat-of-arms. After the division, the counting of the dukes...
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    were members of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the House of Wettin by virtue of their descent from Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria...
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    duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is a cadet branch of the Saxon House of Wettin. One agnatic branch currently reigns in Belgium—the descendants of Leopold...
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  • Dedo I, Count of Wettin (c. 940 – 13 November 1009), also known as Dedo I of Wettin, was a son of Theodoric I of Wettin and Jutta of Merseburg. As a young...
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    Saalfeld (category Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen)
    the Saxon House of Wettin. The town is situated in the valley of the Saale River north of the Thuringian Highland, 48 km (30 mi) south of the German...
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  • is a German princely family of the House of Wettin. The name derives from the progenitor of the line, Albert III, Duke of Saxony. The Albertine branch...
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    Count of Wettin (c. 1034 – 9 March 1090/1091 or c. 1100), a member of the Wettin dynasty, was Count of Wettin and Brehna. Thimo was a younger son of Margrave...
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    was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin, located in the southwest of the present-day German state of Thuringia...
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  • Elector of Hanover (1629–1698), father of King George I of Great Britain Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, son of the...
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    Dynasty (redirect from House of)
    dynastic seat. The House of Windsor is descended from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which is a branch of the House of Wettin. The dynastic name...
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    north of Halle. It is known for Wettin Castle (German: Burg or Schloss Wettin), the ancestral seat of the House of Wettin, the former ruling dynasty of Saxony...
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    Wettin Castle is a former castle that stood near the town of Wettin on the Saale river in Germany, and which is the ancestral home of the House of Wettin...
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    1310. Upon the extinction of the line in the late 16th century, most of the territory was inherited by the Saxon House of Wettin and subsequently incorporated...
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  • Wettin may refer to: House of Wettin, a German Royal House Wettin Castle, near Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, ancestral seat of the House of Wettin Asteroid...
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  • of the Meissen china factory) to their coat of arms. When the line became extinct in 1422, the arms and electoral dignity were adopted by the Wettin by...
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    passed to the House of Wettin. The electoral privilege was tied only to the Electoral Circle, specifically the territory of the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg...
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    ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin. His mother was Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth...
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    Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, dynast of a ducal branch of the House of Wettin senior patrilineally to the royal branch. After the early death of Prince Johannes, the...
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  • a member of the House of Wettin, was Margrave of Meissen from 1156 until his death. He was the eldest surviving son of Conrad, Margrave of Meissen and...
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    duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It...
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    the Prince-Elector of Saxony for 73 days in 1763. He was a member of the House of Wettin. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Frederick Augustus...
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  • (German: Konrad der Große), a member of the House of Wettin, was Margrave of Meissen from 1123 and Margrave of Lusatia from 1136 until his retirement...
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    Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, dynast of a ducal branch of the House of Wettin senior patrilineally to the royal branch. After the early death of Prince Johannes, the...
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    Sachsen-Altenburg) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in present-day Thuringia. It was one of the smallest of the German...
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    Wilhelm was a member of the House of Wettin, which had served as the protecting power of Protestantism in Germany since the time of Frederick the Wise,...
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    of the House of Wettin. In the late 15th century much of what is now Thuringia, including the area around Weimar, was held by the Wettin Electors of Saxony...
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  • Ida of Wettin (Czech: Ida Wettinská, German: Ida von Wettin, also Hidda von Eilenburg; born c. 1031; died after 1061), a member of the Saxon House of Wettin...
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