Maurice of Saxony (1521-1553)
Maurice of Saxony , born the March 21st 1521 with Freiberg (Saxony), dead the July 11th 1553 in the battle of Sievershausen, duke of Saxony of 1541 to its death and Prince-Voter starting from 1547.
Wire of Henri V of Saxony and Catherine de Mecklembourg.
Maurice of Saxony married in 1541 Agnès de Hesse, (girl of Philippe Ier de Hesse
Two children come from this union:
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Anne of Saxony (1544 (1577), in 1561 it married Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau, it divorced in 1574
Belonging to the branch albertine of the House of Wettin, it served the emperor Charles-Quint in 1544, against France, and in 1545 against the Ligue of Smalkade. It gained the Bataille of Muehlberg on the protesting party (1547), and obtained in 1548 the electorate of Saxony, whose Jean-Frederic, his cousin (of the branch ernestine), was stripped to have comhattu in the opposite army.
In 1551, it came to seize Magdeburg in the name of Charles-Quint, when it left brusquementle left the emperor and is linked against him with the voter of Brandebourg, the Count Palatine, the duke of Wurtemberg, to deliver the landgrave of Hesse, that Charles-Quint retained captive: it forced the emperor to treat and grant, by the transaction of Passau in 1552, a general amnesty and the free exercise of the reformed worship.
Charged the following year by the imperial Room with reducing the margrave de Brandebourg, who disturbed peace, it beat it with Sievershausen, but it died two days after, of the continuations of its wounds.
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Albert III of Saxony says “Intrepid” the
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