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This breach was widened when Flacius began to make personal attacks on Augustus, to prophesy his speedy downfall, and to incite Duke John Frederick to make an effort to recover his rightful position. Associated with Flacius was a knight, Wilhelm von Grumbach , who, not satisfied with words only, made inroads into the Electorate of Saxony and sought the aid of foreign powers in his plan to ...
John Frederick ( German: Johann Friedrich; 25 April 1625 in Herzberg am Harz – 18 December 1679 in Augsburg) [1] was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He ruled over the Principality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, from 1665 until his death. The third son of George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, John converted to the Roman Catholic Church ...
John Frederick II of Saxony, was Duke of Saxony. John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony Jan 8, 1529 - May 19, 1595
John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (b. Torgau, 8 January 1529 – d. as imperial prisoner at Schloss Steyer, Upper Austria, 19 May 1595) John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Torgau, 11 March 1530 – d. Weimar, 2 March 1573) John Ernest (b. Weimar, 5 January 1535 – d. Weimar, 11 January 1535) John Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1554 ...
King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, who as Frederick Augustus III was the last elector of Saxony. After taking part in the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778/79), Saxony no longer participated in "haggling over land" ( Länderschacher ) and merely ended a permanent dispute over the area around Glaucha , which brought the state treasury seven million guilders for further state investment. [36]
Religion. Lutheran. Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (28 July 1676 – 23 March 1732), was a duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . He was born in Gotha, the fifth child and first son of Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels . After the death of his father, in 1691, Frederick II assumed the duchy ...
Christian succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony in 1591 at the age of eight. Because of his youth, his mother Sophie of Brandenburg and his kinsman, Duke Frederick William I of Saxe-Weimar , assumed the regency of the electorate until 1601, when Christian was declared an adult and began to govern.