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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.
Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722–1763), ruler of Saxony for 74 days in 1763; Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750–1827), ruler of Saxony as elector and king from 1763 to 1827; Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797–1854), King of Saxony from 1836 to 1854; Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865–1932), King of Saxony from 1904 ...
Friedrich August Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893–1943). After becoming a Jesuit priest, he renounced his rights in 1923. He was allegedly assassinated by the SS or Gestapo in 1943. Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Duke of Saxony (1893–1968). Married Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis (1903–1976) and had issue.
Friedrich Christian Bressand (c. 1670 – 1699), Baroque German poet; Friedrich Christian Delius (born 1943), German writer; Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), German philologist; Friedrich Christian Flick (born 1944), German-Swiss art collector; Friedrich Christian Glume (1714–1752), German artist; Friedrich Christian Gregor Wernekinck ...
Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II.; 18 May 1797 – 9 August 1854) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony – younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony – by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma.
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.
Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1464–1486), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1428–1464) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1486–1500); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany. After Henry's death in 1435, and Sigismund was forced to renounce and became a bishop (in 1440), Frederick and William divided their possessions.