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Saxon and monarchs

They were planned and constructed on the orders of the Saxon monarchs, which is why the outskirts are often named after sovereigns.

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The original Saxon structure of timber and earthworks was replaced by a stone castle 1080s and became a favourite home of Norman and Plantagenet monarchs.

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Saxon and Poland

In 972 Poland suffered the attack of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

The name Weser parallels the names of other rivers such as the Wear in England and the Vistula in Poland, all of which are ultimately derived from the root * weis-" to flow ", which gave Old English / Old Frisian wāse " mud, ooze ", Old Norse veisa " slime, stagnant pool ", Dutch waas " lawn ", Old Saxon waso " wet ground, mire ", and Old High German wasal " rain ".

Even before Prussia declared war on France on 17 March 1813, it had agreed to an alliance with Russia to the detriment of Saxony and Poland at Kalisz on 22 February: the Duchy of Poland would predominantly come under Russian rule, whereas Prussia would be compensated for relinquished Polish territories with the annexation of Saxon territory.

Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was the grandson of the Marshal General of France, Maurice, Comte de Saxe, himself an illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and a Saxon elector, and a cousin to the sixth degree to the kings of France Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X.

After the Saxon elector Augustus the Strong was elected King of Poland in 1697, Lusatia became strategically important as the electors-kings sought to create a land connection between their Saxon homelands and the Polish territories.

The tsar was to be content with Ingria and Estonia while Augustus was to take Livonia, nominally as a fief of Poland, but really as a hereditary possession of the Saxon house.

* The Kyrie and Gloria were composed in 1733, the former as a lament for the decease of Elector Augustus the Strong ( who had died on 1 February 1733 ) and the latter to celebrate the accession of his successor the Saxon Elector and later Polish King Augustus III of Poland, who converted to Catholicism in order to ascend the throne of Poland.

Ostmark has been variously used to denote Austria, the Saxon Eastern March, or, as Ostmarkenverein, the territories Prussia gained in the partitions of Poland.

Population growth during the High Middle Ages stimulated movement of peoples from the Rhenish, Flemish, and Saxon territories of the Holy Roman Empire eastwards into the less-populated Baltic region and Poland.

In the course of the 12th century, the non-Christian Pomeranians faced continuous pressure from their expanding Christian neighbours Denmark, Poland, and the Saxon dukes of the Holy Roman Empire.

19 January 2003: fire of the Saxon Palace which is unique Postal Palace of Saxon kings in Poland.

During the Neolithic Period, like Mount Ślęża in Poland, and at least as far back as the 6th century BC the Wrekin was a holy place of the heathen tribes of the Celtic and later Germanic Saxon culture.

File: August III the Saxon in Polish costume. PNG | King Augustus III of Poland in a white żupan, c. 1756

Whereas the original arms of Guben features the coat of arms of Saxony, Bohemia and Prussia, Gubin dropped the Saxon shield and the Prussian eagle after it became part of Poland, and replaced the Bohemian double-tailed lion in the centre with the Polish eagle.

Disappointed with his lack of promotion in the Netherlands and Austria, Seckendorff entered the service of King Augustus II of Poland as a Generalmajor and commanded the king's auxiliary Saxon troops in Flanders, fighting in the siege of Tournai and the battle of Malplaquet.

The German investments in Poland were followed by Saxon and bohemian specialists to run the factories.

* Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler-( 1771 – 1850 ), Saxon entrepreneur in Saxony and Poland

In August 1073, Henry responded with an invasion of Poland, but a new Saxon revolt drew him back in 1075.

* Opatów Confederation and Warsaw Confederation, both formed against the Saxon king Augustus II of Poland ( 1704 );

* Sandomierz Confederation formed in support of the Saxon king Augustus II of Poland ( 1704 );

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