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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 was born at Winzingen Castle near Neustadt an der Weinstraße as the fourth son of Philip, Elector Palatine and his wife, Margarete of Bavaria-Landshut.He was the Count Palatine and served as counselor and general for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, commanding expeditions against the Turks in 1529 and 1532, and assisting the Emperor at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530.
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 ...
Frederick III, Count of Veldenz (died 1444) Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415–1493) Frederick III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1424–1495) Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1463–1525), also known as Frederick the Wise; Frederick III, Elector Palatine (1515–1576) Frederick III, Duke of Legnica (1520–1570) Frederick III, Duke of ...
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
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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 ...
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 .