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Duchy of Saxony and Electorate of Saxony: Margaret of Austria 3 June 1431 Leipzig eight children: Son of Frederick I. Ruled jointly in Saxony with his brothers, but was the sole holder of the Electorate. Father of Ernest and Albert, founders of the Ernestine and Albertine Saxon lines. Ernest I (Ernst) 24 March 1441: 7 September 1464 – 26 ...
John, King of Saxony: 9. Princess Carolina of Parma: 2. George, King of Saxony: 10. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria: 5. Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria: 11. Princess Caroline of Baden: 1. Frederick Augustus III of Saxony: 12. Ferdinand, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry: 6. Ferdinand II of Portugal: 13. Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de ...
The Lower Saxon Circle included the easternmost part of current Lower Saxony, the northernmost part of Saxony-Anhalt (excluding the Altmark), [1] Mecklenburg, Holstein (excluding Dithmarschen), Hamburg, Bremen, in addition to small areas in Brandenburg and Thuringia.
Albert III (German: Albrecht III.; c. 1375/1380 – before 12 November 1422) was the last Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony from the House of Ascania.After his death, King Sigismund ceded his duchy and the Saxon electoral dignity to Margrave Frederick IV of Meissen from the House of Wettin.
[3] [4] In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands (until 1493) [5] [6] and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.
Silver Saxony coin of Frederick III, known as a Groschen, minted ca. 1507–25. Both the obverse and the reverse bear a version of the Saxony Electorate 's coat of arms . Frederick died unmarried in 1525, aged 62 years old, at Lochau, a hunting castle near Annaburg (30 km southeast of Wittenberg), and was buried in the Castle Church at ...
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The Saxons were one of the most robust groups in the late tribal culture of the times, and eventually bequeathed their tribe's name to a variety of more and more modern geopolitical territories, such as Old Saxony (Altsachsen), Upper Saxony, the Electorate, the Prussian Province of Saxony (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), and the Kingdom of ...