August of Saxony

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August of Saxony

Coat-of-arms of the House of Wettin, rulers in Saxony.

Born| (1589-09-07)7 September 1589
Dresden
Died| 26 December 1615(1615-12-26) (aged 26)
Naumburg
Spouse| Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg
House| House of Wettin
Father| Christian I of Saxony
Mother| Sophie of Brandenburg

August of Saxony (7 September 1589, Dresden - 26 December 1615, Naumburg) from the Albertine line of the House of Wettin was Administrator of the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz.

## Life

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August was the youngest son of the elector Christian I of Saxony (1560–1591) from his marriage to Sophie of Brandenburg (1568–1622), daughter of the elector John George of Brandenburg. His older brothers Christian II and John George I were successively Electors of Saxony. From the latter August received an annual pension of 21,000 florins and the district of Senftenberg.

August graduated from the University of Wittenberg, where Wolfgang Hirschbach had been entrusted the task to guide this young nobleman in his training. During this period he held from the winter semester 1601 until 1606, the position of Rector Magnificus; the academic aspect of this office was performed by a pro-rector.

He married Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1593–1650) on 1 January 1612 in Dresden. She was a daughter of Henry Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. They had no children, as Elisabeth repeatedly miscarried.

He died suddenly at the age of 26 in Dresden and was buried in the Freiberg Cathedral.

## Ancestors

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Ancestors of August of Saxony

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| 8\. Henry IV of Saxony|

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| 17\. Sidonie of Poděbrady

| 4\. Augustus of Saxony|

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| 18\. Magnus II of Mecklenburg

| 9\. Catherine of Mecklenburg|

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| 19\. Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin

| 2\. Christian I of Saxony|

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| 20\. Frederick I of Denmark

| 10\. Christian III of Denmark|

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| 21\. Anna of Brandenburg

| 5\. Anne of Denmark and Norway|

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| 22\. Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg

| 11\. Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg|

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| 23\. Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

| 1\. August of Saxony|
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| 24\. Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg

| 12\. Joachim II Hector of Brandenburg|

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| 25\. Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway and Sweden

| 6\. John George of Brandenburg|

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| 26\. George of Saxony

| 13\. Magdalena of Saxony|

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| 27\. Barbara Jagiellon

| 3\. Sophie of Brandenburg|

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| 28\. Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach

| 14\. George of Brandenburg-Ansbach|

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| 29\. Sophia Jagiellon

| 7\. Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach|

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| 30\. Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels

| 15\. Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels|

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| 31\. Anna of Sagan

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## References

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* K. W. Böttiger (1831), History of the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony, vol. 2, Hamburg, p. 82
* Franz Otto Stichart (1854), The Kingdom of Saxony and its princes, Leipzig, p. 192`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Heinrich August Pierer, Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, 4th edition, Volume 2, Altenburg, 1857, p. 21.

August of Saxony

House of Wettin

Born: 7 September 1589 Died: 26 December 1615

Preceded by

Christian I of Saxony

|  Administrator of the diocese of Naumburg
1591–1615  | \

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Princes of Saxony

The generations are numbered from the ascension of Frederick I as Elector of Saxony in 1423.

1st generation|

* Frederick II
* William III, Landgrave of Thuringia

2nd generation|

* Ernest
* Albert III

3rd generation|

* Frederick III
* Ernest, Archbishop of Magdeburg
* Albert, Administrator of Mainz
* John
* George
* Henry IV
* Prince Frederick, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

4th generation|

* John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony
* Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Saxony
* John Frederick I
* Maurice
* Severinus
* John Ernest
* Augustus

5th generation|

* John Frederick II
* Johann Wilhelm
* John Frederick III
* Christian I

6th generation|

* Christian II
* John George I
* August

7th generation|

* John George II
* Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels
* Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg
* Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz

8th generation|

* John George III

9th generation|

* John George IV
* Frederick Augustus I

10th generation|

* Frederick Augustus II1

11th generation|

* Frederick Christian1
* Prince Francis Xavier1
* Charles, Duke of Courland1
* Albert, Duke of Teschen1
* Clemens Wenceslaus, Archbishop of Trier1

12th generation|

* Frederick Augustus I
* Anthony I
* Maximilian, Crown Prince

13th generation|

* Frederick Augustus II
* John

14th generation|

* Albert
* George

15th generation|

* Frederick Augustus III
* Prince Johann Georg
* Prince Maximilian
* Prince Albert

16th generation|

* Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
* Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen
* Prince Ernst Heinrich

17th generation|

* Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen
* Albert, Margrave of Meissen

18th generation|

* Prince Rüdiger
* Prince Alexander

19th generation|

* Prince Daniel

1 also królewicz of Poland and Lithuania

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