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Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony ( Friedrich Christian Leopold Johann Georg Franz Xaver ; 5 September 1722 – 17 December 1763 ) was the Prince-Elector of Saxony for less than three months in 1763.
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Frederick and Christian
Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.
He was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Maria Antonia of Bavaria.
In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.
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.
His father was the only son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony who left surviving male issue.
Four generations of List of Danish Monarchs | Danish kings in 1903: Christian IX of Denmark | King Christian IX ( left ), Christian X of Denmark | Christian ( X ) ( back ), Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick ( VIII ) ( right ), and Frederick IX of Denmark | Frederick ( IX ) ( front ).
* 1757: Christian II Frederick ( 1757 – 1791 ) ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )
On 2 December 1791, Christian II Frederick sold the sovereignty of his principalities to king Frederick William II of Prussia.
Frederick and Elector
* 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king ( d. 1632 )
Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.
Married Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg.
However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united with the main Brandenburg line, remaining independent as " Brandenburg-Ansbach ".
Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son ( but fifth child in order of birth ) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.
Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany
Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.
* 1569 / 71: Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg
He was at once appointed by Elector Frederick III " juge et directeur de colonie de Berlin.
In 1613, his sister Elizabeth married Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg.
However, when Baden was transferred west to fight the French in 1692 his successors, first Caprara, then from 1696, Frederick Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, proved incapable of delivering the final blow.
By 1660 the Vistula Lagoon had gone to Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, but was returned in 1700.
* Marriage of the River Thames to the Rhine ( masque performed by Gray's Inn and Inner Temple lawyers on the river and in Westminster Hall in celebration of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Frederick, Elector Palatine ) ( 1613 )
* Frederick V, Elector Palatine ( 1596 – 1632 ), or Friedrich V von der Pfalz
Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.
Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.
He was the father of Frederick William, the " Great Elector ".
Frederick and Saxony
Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.
Duke Frederick of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, died in December 1510.
* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.
Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).
The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz ; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony ; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer ; Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
With few chances to take part in the politics of the Electorate of Saxony or receive any land from his older brother Frederick Augustus III, Anton lived under the shadows.
Anton succeeded his brother Frederick August I as King of Saxony when he died, on 5 May 1827.
His loyalty to the emperor Frederick, and the expenses incurred in this connection, aroused some irritation among his subjects, but his rule was a period of prosperity in Saxony.
He deposited them at the University of Leipzig, under the title of the Codex Friderico-Augustanus, a name given in honour of his patron, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, king of Saxony.
Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
Frederick and Friedrich
Frederick V or Friedrich V may refer to:
* Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1460 – 1536 ), or Friedrich V, Margrave von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth
* John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 ( on-line )
" Hayek had hoped to receive a baronetcy, and after he was awarded the CH he sent a letter to his friends requesting that he be called the English version of Friedrich ( Frederick ) from now on.
* Frederick I, Duke of Swabia ( Friedrich ) ( r. 1079-1105 )
He filed a lawsuit at the court of Emperor Friedrich III ( Frederick III ), whose verdict of 1453 declared the confederation illegal.
Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.
As Prince Frederick considered John the Blind to be one of his ancestors he ordered Karl Friedrich Schinkel to construct a funeral chapel.
# Frederick I, ( German: Friedrich II.
After German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate following the exhaustion and defeat of the German Empire in World War I, monarchic rule ended in Oldenburg as well with the abdication of Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg ( Friedrich August II von Oldenburg ) on 11 November 1918.
Friedrich ( Frederick ) Engels was born on November 28, 1820 in Barmen, Prussia ( now Wuppertal, Germany ).
He was also Elector Frederick Augustus III ( Friedrich August III.
In August 1791, Frederick Augustus arranged a meeting with Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia at Pillnitz Castle that was intended partly to offer support for the French monarchy in the face of revolutionary agitation in France.
Prince Frederick Louis ( sometimes rendered Lewis ), was born in Hanover, Germany, as Duke Friedrich Ludwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Frederick Loewe (, originally German Friedrich ( Fritz ) Löwe ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988 ), was an Austrian-American composer.
His work then drew the attention of Duke Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony, known as Frederick the Wise, who attached Cranach to his court in 1504.
Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick ( der alte Fritz was a nickname for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor ), as well as for similar names including Fridolin.
Frederick William III commissioned the neoclassical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to design the Iron Cross after a royal sketch.
Friedrich became King Frederick I when he formally ascended the throne on 1 January 1806, and was crowned as such on the same day at Stuttgart.
Crown Prince Friedrich, later Frederick III, German Emperor | Friedrich III, stands on his father's right.
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