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Silver Saxony coin of Frederick III, known as a Groschen, minted ca. 1507–25. Both the obverse and the reverse bear a version of the Saxony Electorate 's coat of arms . Frederick died unmarried in 1525, aged 62 years old, at Lochau, a hunting castle near Annaburg (30 km southeast of Wittenberg), and was buried in the Castle Church at Wittenberg , with a grave tomb sculpted by Peter Vischer ...
S. Saxe-Weissenfels. Saxon Renaissance. Saxon thaler. Categories: Former monarchies of Europe. Former states and territories of Saxony. Electorates of the Holy Roman Empire.
Electorate of Saxony (1356-1806) with the crossed swords of the Imperial Arch-Marshal and the green crancelin. Frederick of Saxony , 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights ruled over the Teutonic bailiwicks of Thuringia ( Hesse and Saxony ), the Saxon County Palatinate and Meissen (1498-1510)
The kings also often stopped and hosted meetings with foreign delegations and sessions of the Senate in Wschowa, which was dubbed the "unofficial capital of Poland". The personal union of Poland and Saxony, or Saxony-Poland, was the personal union that existed from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 to 1763 between the Electorate of Saxony under the ...
Christian I of Saxony (29 October 1560 in Dresden – 25 September 1591 in Dresden) was Elector of Saxony from 1586 to 1591. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin . He was the sixth but second surviving son of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Anna of Denmark. The death of his older brother, Alexander (8 October 1565), made ...
The electorate comprised large parts of the modern German state of Lower Saxony in Northern Germany. Beside the Principality of Calenberg it also included the former princely lands of Göttingen and Grubenhagen as well as the territory of the former County of Hoya. the Electorate of Hanover within the Northeastern part of the Holy Roman Empire ...
When in 1356 the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV issued the Golden Bull, the fundamental law of the empire which settled the method of electing the emperor, the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg was made one of the seven electorates and promoted to become the Electorate of Saxony. This lent influence out of proportion to the small area of the state.
