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6 giorni fa · Maria Antonia of Austria eldest d. & only surviving child of Emp.Leopold I & Margaret Theresa of Spain. heir to the Spanish throne (1669–1692) Maximilian II Emanuel Elector and Duke of Bavaria r. 1679–1726 Governor of Spanish Netherlands r. 1692–1706 (1662–1726) Joseph Clemens, Duke in Bavaria Elector and Abp. of Cologne ...
6 giorni fa · of Saxony 1443–1500: Cunigunde of Austria 1465–1520: Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich 1447–1508: Sophie of Poland 1464–1512: Frederick II the Elder 1450–1486–1535 Kulmbach 1495–1515: Sigismund II 1468–1486–1495: Ursula of Brandenburg 1488–1510: John VII Cicero 1455–1486–1499: Margaret of Saxony-Thuringia 1449 ...
3 giorni fa · After the smallpox epidemic of 1767, she promoted inoculation, which she had learned of through her correspondence with Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony (who in turn probably knew of it through her own correspondence with Frederick the Great).
9 mag 2024 · This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica. John Frederick (II) was an Ernestine duke of Saxony, or Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach, whose attempts to regain the electoral dignity, lost by his father to the rival Albertine branch of the House of Wettin, led to his capture and incarceration until his death.
9 mag 2024 · Augustus II (born May 12, 1670, Dresden, Saxony [Germany]—died February 1, 1733, Warsaw, Poland) was the king of Poland and elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I). Though he regained Poland’s former provinces of Podolia and Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland’s decline as a European power.
1 mag 2024 · Frederick III (born Jan. 17, 1463, Torgau, Saxony—died May 5, 1525, Lochau, near Torgau) was the elector of Saxony who worked for constitutional reform of the Holy Roman Empire and protected Martin Luther after Luther was placed under the imperial ban in 1521.
11 mag 2024 · This poignant bust of the Virgin, lamenting the death of her son, Jesus, was probably made by Pietro Torrigiani, an Italian living in Bruges, where he was in the service of Archduchess Margaret of Austria. For Margaret, herself a grieving widow, the theme of Mary’s mourning had great resonance.
