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6 January 1703 William Ernest co-Duke: Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst: John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst : 9 March 1663 11 October 1685 14 September 1694 John Ernest III co-Duke: Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg: Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (Hesse-Homburg) 17 June 1672 4 November 1694 10 May 1707 husband's death: 29 August 1738
The old Saxon coats of arms today lives on in the coats of arms of Lower Saxony and Westphalia.. The original Duchy of Saxony comprised the lands of the Saxons in the north-western part of present-day Germany, namely, the contemporary German state of Lower Saxony as well as Westphalia and Western Saxony-Anhalt, not corresponding to the modern German state of Saxony.
Duchies of Saxony, in Lower Saxony and Upper Saxony, the successor state(s) of the original (stem)duchy of Saxony after dismissal of Duke Henry the Lion by the Emperor, collateral lines of the electoral line (to wit: the Lower Saxon Saxe-Lauenburg and the Upper Saxon Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenberg, Saxe ...
Before his death he was in all but name the duke of Saxony. 973: Hermann Billung dies in Quedlinburg and shortly after Otto I dies in Memleben. Otto II becomes emperor and he make Hermann's son Bernhard I the first duke of Saxony of the Billung House. 983: Danish uprising in Hedeby. Slavonian uprising in Northalbingia.
Otto I, duke of Saxony upon the death of his father in 936, was elected king within a few weeks. He continued the work of unifying all of the German tribes into a single kingdom, greatly expanding the powers of the king at the expense of the aristocracy. [ 1 ]
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Catherine of Saxony: Albert III, Duke of Saxony 24 July 1468 29 June 1497 1495 or 7 July 1503 Union of Calenberg and Göttingen: 10 February 1524 Eric I: Elisabeth of Brandenburg: Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (Hohenzollern) 24 August 1510 7 July 1525 30 July 1540 husband's death: 25 May 1558 Sidonie of Saxony: Henry IV, Duke of Saxony
Sophia of Hungary (c. 1050 – 18 June 1095), a member of the royal Árpád dynasty, was a Margravine of Istria and Carniola from about 1062 until 1070, by her first marriage with Margrave Ulric I, as well as Duchess of Saxony from 1072 until her death, by her second marriage with Duke Magnus Billung.