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Posthumous portrait of Frederick the Wise by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530 –1535. Luther secretly returned to Wittenberg on 6 March 1522. He wrote to the elector: "During my absence, Satan has entered my sheepfold, and committed ravages which I cannot repair by writing, but only by my personal presence and living word."
Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, or Frederick the Belligerent (1370–1428), ruler of Saxony from 1422 to 1428; Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, or Frederick the Gentle (1412–1464), ruler of Saxony from 1428 to 1464; Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, or Frederick the Wise (1463–1525), ruler of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, protector of Martin Luther
Elector Frederick the Wise (r. 1486–1525) protected Luther, most notably when he sheltered him at the Wartburg Castle for ten months in 1521/22 after Luther had refused to recant at the Diet of Worms, [17] but the Albertine duke George the Bearded fought against his ideas and rejected open action against the emperor. It was only after George ...
In 1509 Mutianus recommended him to Frederick III the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, who sent him back to Wittenburg in 1511 to act as tutor to his nephews, including the future elector John Frederick. [1] Spalatin speedily gained Frederick's confidence and was rewarded with a canon's stall in Altenburg. In 1512 the elector made him his librarian.
His Saxon heritage, however, made him a natural liaison between the papal court and Elector Frederick the Wise. On 3 September 1518 Pope Leo X decided to bestow on Frederick the papal Golden Rose of Virtue — an award with attendant religious privileges to deserving princes, with the aim of securing the support of Frederick the Wise in ...
The obverse shows Johann's older brother, Frederick, while on the reverse, Johann is portrayed face to face with George, Duke of Saxony. Born in Meissen, John was the fifth of the seven children of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria. From 1486 onward he was the heir presumptive of his childless brother Frederick the Wise.
"The Bishop’s words pleased Frederick the Wise so much that he copied the letter with his own hand and sent it to me at Lochau." ( Welche des Bischofen Wort diesem Churfürsten von Sachsen so wol gefielen, dass er mirs, Spalatino, mit eigener Hand umgeschrieben zur Lochau zuschickt, mich auch noch um diese Wort wenig Wochen vor ihrem Abschied ...
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, commonly called Frederick the Wise Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elector Frederick .