 1370 - 1428 (57 years)
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| Name |
Frederick I |
| Suffix |
Elector of Saxony |
| Birth |
11 Apr 1370 |
Dresden, Saxony, Germany  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reigned |
From 6 Jan 1423 to 4 Jan 1428 |
| Electorate of Saxony |
| Reigned |
From 30 Mar 1425 to 4 Jan 1428 |
| Margrave of Meissen |
| Death |
4 Jan 1428 |
| Notes |
- «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Elector_of_Saxony
Frederick IV, Margrave of Meissen and Elector of Saxony«/b» (Frederick the Belligerent (the Warlike)) (11 April 1370 \endash 4 January 1428) was «u»Margrave of Meissen «/u» and «u»Elector of Saxony «/u» from 1381 until his death. He is not to be confused with his cousin «u»Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia «/u», the son of «u»Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia «/u». Frederick the Warlike was never «u»Landgrave of Thuringia «/u».
«b»Biography
«/b»He was the eldest son of «u»Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia «/u» and «u»Katharina von Henneberg «/u». After the death of his uncle «u»William II, Margrave of Meissen «/u» in 1407, he governed the Margraviate of Meissen together with his brother «u»William III «/u» as well as with his cousin «u»Frederick IV «/u» (son of «u»Balthasar «/u»). After secession in 1410 and 1415 he received the Mark Meissen to autocracy.
In the «u»German town war «/u» of 1388 he assisted «u»Frederick V of Hohenzollern «/u», burgrave of «u»Nuremberg «/u», and in 1391 did the same for the «u»Teutonic Order «/u» against «u»Wladislaus II of Poland «/u». He supported «u»Rupert III, Elector Palatine of the Rhine «/u», in his struggle with King «u»Wenceslaus «/u» for the German throne, probably because Wenceslaus refused to fulfil a promise to give him his sister «u»Anna «/u» in marriage.
The danger to Germany from the «u»Hussites «/u» induced Frederick to ally himself with Emperor «u»Sigismund «/u»; and he took a leading part in the war against them, during the earlier years of which he met with considerable success. In the prosecution of this enterprise Frederick spent large sums of money, for which he received various places in «u»Bohemia «/u» and elsewhere in pledge from Sigismund, who further rewarded him in 6 January 1423 with the vacant «u»electoral «/u» Duchy of «u»Saxony-Wittenberg «/u»; and Fredericks formal investiture followed at «u»Ofen «/u» on the 1 August 1425. Thus ascended Frederick IV, who called himself Frederick I now, to the duke and elector. Thus spurred to renewed efforts against the Hussites, the elector was endeavouring to rouse the German princes to aid him in prosecuting this war when the Saxon army was almost annihilated at «u»Aussig «/u» on the 16 August 1426.
After the death of his brother William Frederick became ruler over the entire possession of The «u»House of Wettin «/u» except «u»Thuringia «/u».
Frederick died in 1428 at «u»Altenburg «/u». He was buried as the first «u»Wettin «/u» in the cathedral chapel in Meissen.
In 1409, in conjunction with his brother William, he founded the «u»University of Leipzig «/u», for the benefit of German students who had just left the «u»University of Prague «/u».
«b»Family
«/b»Frederick I married 8 February 1402 «u»Catherine of Brunswick «/u», daughter of «u»Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg «/u» and had 7 children:
Katharina, died young;
«u»Friedrich II "der Sanftmütige" «/u» (1412 \endash 1464);
Sigismund, Bishop of «u»Würzburg «/u», (3 March 1416 \endash 24 December 1471);
Anna, (5 June 1420 \endash 17 September 1462), married to «u»Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse «/u»;
Katharina, (1421 \endash 23 August 1476, «u»Berlin «/u»), married to «u»Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg «/u»;
Heinrich, (21 May 1422 \endash 22 July 1435);
«u»Wilhelm "der Tapfere" «/u» (1425 \endash 1482), Landgrave of Thuringia, Duke of Luxemburg;
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| Person ID |
I61979 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
18 Jan 2013 |
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