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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 .
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, 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 ...
King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (Mišno) on the Elbe river. Later named Albrechtsburg, the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast Marca Geronis (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon ...
Friedrich went into the service of the Elector John George I of Saxony and fought in the Thirty Years' War in Lusatia and Bohemia. From 1622, he led his own corps of troops, however, these scattered due to lack of pay. Frederick then went into the service of Duke Christian the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
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 ...
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).
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.