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Friedrich Christian (right) and his brother George on a photograph by August Kotzsch in 1900. Friedrich Christian was made a lieutenant in the 1st Royal Saxon Leib-Grenadier Regiment No. 100 at the age of 10, in accordance a family tradition of the House of Wettin. In 1913, he studied at the Military Academy in Dresden.
Frederick Christian (German: Friedrich Christian; 5 September 1722 – 17 December 1763) was 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 II , Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland , by his wife, Maria Josepha of Austria .
Upper Saxony about 1260, Wettin territories of Meissen, Lusatia and Osterland in pink. Emperor Henry IV then granted Meissen to Count Henry of Eilenburg of the Wettin dynasty. The margravate would remain under Wettin rule for the rest of its existence. Under Wiprecht von Groitzsch in the 1120s, Meissen underwent a process of Germanisation. [6]
Saxe-Marksuhl merged in Saxe-Eisenach: Regency of John George II, Elector of Saxony (1669-1672) Son of Frederick William II. Died as a minor. His lands were divided between Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Weimar. Frederick William III: 12 July 1657: 1669–1672: 14 April 1672: Ernestine Saxe-Altenburg: Unmarried: Saxe-Altenburg merged in Saxe-Gotha to form ...
As Maria Emanuel fathered no legitimate children, he had acknowledged as his eventual heir Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe, the son of his eldest sister Princess Anna and her late husband Robert Afif, Prince of Gessaphe (or "Assaphe"/"Afif-Assaf", descendants of a Lebanese Christian family which ruled the Keserwan, a province in north of Beirut).
Finally in 1423 Margrave Frederick the Warlike was enfeoffed with the Saxe–Wittenberg lands down the Elbe ('Upper Saxony'), an electorate according to the Golden Bull of 1356. While the Wettin rulers eventually moved their residence to Dresden, the Meissen margraviate merged into their electorate and became known as the 'Cradle of Saxony'.
Frederick Christian: Princess Carolina of Parma: Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (renounces the throne in 1830) Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (since 1806 as Friedrich August I. King of Saxony) Anthony of Saxony: Amalie Auguste of Bavaria: John of Saxony: Frederick Augustus II of Saxony: Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal: George, King of ...
Christian succeeded to the electorship of Saxony and as a result of his youth, his cousin, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar, and maternal grandfather, Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg, assumed the regency of the electorate. The young elector's reign was immediately hit with internal strife; Christian I's unexpected death had sparked ...