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Frederick Augustus I: Quick Facts

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Born December 23, 1750 • Dresden • Germany
Died May 5, 1827 (aged 76) • Dresden • Germany
Title / Office king (1806-1827), Saxony
Role In Napoleonic Wars
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Henryk Dembiński
Polish soldier and revolutionary leader
M. Bacciarelli: portrait of Józef Poniatowski
Józef Antoni Poniatowski
Polish patriot
Henry III, detail of a sandstone figure from his tomb, 1227; in the Cathedral of St. Blasius, Brunswick
Henry III
duke of Bavaria and Saxony
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust.
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust
prime minister of Austria
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
king of Bavaria
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John George I of Saxony
elector of Saxony
Grumbach, engraving by Matthias Zündt
Wilhelm von Grumbach
German knight
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Leonty Leontyevich, count von Bennigsen
Russian general
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Augustus
elector of Saxony
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
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Adalbert
archbishop of Bremen
John Frederick the Magnanimous, portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder; in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
John Frederick
elector of Saxony
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Maurice
elector of Saxony
Henry X, detail from an engraving
Henry X
duke of Bavaria
Heinrich, Reichsgraf von Brühl
Heinrich, count von Brühl
prime minister of Saxony
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John
elector of Saxony
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Otto von Pack
German politician
Frederick III
Frederick III
elector of Saxony
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Christian of Anhalt
Protestant prince
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, detail from an engraving, 1854
Frederick Augustus II
king of Saxony

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