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Contents 1Biography 2The Elector's Dream 3Protection of Luther 4Issue of conversion in 1525 5Ancestry 6See also 7References 8Sources Elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525
Double portrait of John Frederick and Sibylle of Cleves. In Torgau on 9 February 1527 John Frederick married Sibylle of Cleves, daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and sister to Anne of Cleves, who was briefly Queen of England as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. They had four sons: John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (b.
A devout Catholic, Frederick the Wise became “elector” of Saxony upon the death of his father. Frederick had castles in Saxony, including Wittenberg and Wartburg, which would become important landmarks in the life of Martin Luther. Though he participated in the selling of indulgences, Frederick objected to the selling of indulgences for the building of... Read More >
Less scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between Luther and the electors of Saxony during the reign of Frederick’s brother John the Steadfast (1468–1532, r. 1525–1532) and nephew John Frederick (1503–1554, r. 1532–1547), despite the vital role that these rulers played during the development of the new confessional identity.
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.
11 de jun. de 2018 · FREDERICK III (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1415 – 1493; ruled 1440 – 1493) FREDERICK III (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1415 – 1493; ruled 1440 – 1493), Holy Roman emperor. A scion of the Habsburg dynasty, Frederick III married Eleanora of Portugal, with whom he had a son and heir, the future emperor Maximilian I (1459 – 1519; ruled 1493 – 1519).
Frederic III, also known as Frederic the Wise, was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria. He was born in Torgau in 1463 and succeeded his father as Duke of Saxony and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486. In 1502, he founded the University of Wittenberg; Luther and Melanchthon both studied and later taught theology ...
