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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
Leonty Leontyevich, count von Bennigsen
Russian general
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
John George I of Saxony
elector of Saxony
Grumbach, engraving by Matthias Zündt
Wilhelm von Grumbach
German knight
Augustus
elector of Saxony
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
Adalbert
archbishop of Bremen
John Frederick the Magnanimous, portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder; in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
John Frederick
elector of Saxony
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
John
elector of Saxony
Otto von Pack
German politician
Frederick III
Frederick III
elector of Saxony
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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