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Born May 31, 1613 • Dresden • Germany
Died August 22, 1680 (aged 67) • Freiberg • Germany
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
Frederick III
Frederick III
elector of Saxony
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
Charles IV
Charles IV
Holy Roman emperor
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust.
Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust
prime minister of Austria
Louis II
Louis II
king of Bavaria
John George I of Saxony
elector of Saxony
Grumbach, engraving by Matthias Zündt
Wilhelm von Grumbach
German knight
Maximilian II
Maximilian II
king of Bavaria
Louis I, detail from an oil painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Louis I
king of Bavaria
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
Frederick Augustus I
king of Saxony
Heinrich, Reichsgraf von Brühl
Heinrich, count von Brühl
prime minister of Saxony
Charles Augustus
duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
John
elector of Saxony
Luitpold, detail from a portrait by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1902; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Luitpold
prince regent of Bavaria