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6 January 1703 William Ernest co-Duke: Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst: John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst : 9 March 1663 11 October 1685 14 September 1694 John Ernest III co-Duke: Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg: Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (Hesse-Homburg) 17 June 1672 4 November 1694 10 May 1707 husband's death: 29 August 1738
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.
Before his death he was in all but name the duke of Saxony. 973: Hermann Billung dies in Quedlinburg and shortly after Otto I dies in Memleben. Otto II becomes emperor and he make Hermann's son Bernhard I the first duke of Saxony of the Billung House. 983: Danish uprising in Hedeby. Slavonian uprising in Northalbingia.
Duchies of Saxony, in Lower Saxony and Upper Saxony, the successor state(s) of the original (stem)duchy of Saxony after dismissal of Duke Henry the Lion by the Emperor, collateral lines of the electoral line (to wit: the Lower Saxon Saxe-Lauenburg and the Upper Saxon Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenberg, Saxe ...
Name Father Birth Marriage Became Margravine Ceased to be Margravine Death Spouse Swanehilde of Saxony: Hermann Billung, Duke of Saxony 945/955 before 1000 30 April 1002 husband's death: 26 November 1014 Eckard I: The name of Gunzelin's wife is unknown, but he had several children; she main have been a sister of Bolesław I Chrobry. Gunzelin
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The electoral college consisted initially of two ecclesiastical and two secular princes, one of whom was the duke of Saxony [citation needed]. The circle was extended in the 13th century to seven: the archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne plus the count palatine of the Rhine, the margrave of Brandenburg, the king of Bohemia and the duke of ...
Otto was the younger son of the Saxon count Liudolf (d. 866), the progenitor of the dynasty, and his wife Oda (d. 913), [1] daughter of the Saxon princeps Billung.Among his siblings were his eldest brother Bruno, heir to their father's estates, and Liutgard, who in 876 became Queen of East Francia as consort of the Carolingian king Louis the Younger.