Page "Frederick Augustus I of Saxony" Paragraph 8

Frederick Augustus was proclaimed king of Saxony on 20 December 1806.

After the Treaty of Tilsit, which Frederick William III of Prussia and Czar Alexander I of Russia concluded with Napoleon in July 1807, Frederick Augustus was also named duke of Warsaw.

Although he had rejected the offer of the kingdom of Poland in 1795 by the lower House of the Polish Parliament, he could not refuse a Polish title a second time.