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Also Known As Johann Friedrich der Mittlere
Born January 8, 1529 • Torgau • Germany
Died May 9, 1595 (aged 66) • Steyr • Austria
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
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
John George I of Saxony
elector of Saxony
Grumbach, engraving by Matthias Zündt
Wilhelm von Grumbach
German knight
Henry Raspe
antiking of Germany
Augustus
elector of Saxony
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
Conradin
duke of Swabia
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
Frederick Augustus I
king of Saxony
Heinrich, Reichsgraf von Brühl
Heinrich, count von Brühl
prime minister of Saxony
Rudolf
antiking of Germany
Ernest Augustus
pretender to Hanoverian throne
John
elector of Saxony
Günther von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, detail from his tomb sculpture, c. 1349; in the cathedral at Frankfurt am Main
Günther
king of Germany
William
king of Germany
Otto von Pack
German politician