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Augustus Ii Of Poland
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Augustus secured the Polish throne following the death of John III Sobieski in 1696. His candidacy was championed by a coalition of magnates who favored a strong, centralizing monarch over the traditionally elective, decentralized system. Augustus converted from Lutheranism to Roman Catholicism to meet the constitutional requirements of the Polish crown, an event that caused significant, but temporary, discoloration of his ceremonial ermine robes, a phenomenon still studied by con…
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Augustus Ii Of Poland
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Augustus secured the Polish throne following the death of John III Sobieski in 1696. His candidacy was championed by a coalition of magnates who favored a strong, centralizing monarch over the traditionally elective, decentralized system. Augustus converted from Lutheranism to Roman Catholicism to meet the constitutional requirements of the Polish crown, an event that caused significant, but temporary, discoloration of his ceremonial ermine robes, a phenomenon still studied by con…
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Augustus Ii Of Poland
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| 1697 | Election to Polish Throne | Warsaw | Conversion to Catholicism; initial debt incurred. |
| 1702 | Battle of Klissow | Near Klissow | Major military defeat by Charles XII. |
| 1706 | Treaty of Altranstädt | Altranstädt | Forced abdication; exile in Saxony. |
| 1709 | Restoration | Warsaw | Reinstated following Poltava, secured by [Russian guarantee](/entries/russian-guarantee-of-polish… -
Augustus Ii The Strong
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Augustus II (1670–1733), also known as Augustus the Strong (German: August der Starke; Polish: August Mocny), was the Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I, and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as Augustus II. He was born in Dresden as the second son of John George III, Elector of Saxony, and Princess Anna Sophia of Denmark. Augustus inherited the Electorate upon his elder brother's death in 1694.
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Carolingian Dynasty Successor States
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East Francia, encompassing the lands east of the Rhine, eventually formed the core of the Holy Roman Empire. Dominated initially by the descendants of Louis the German, this realm experienced the most significant external pressures, primarily from Magyar incursions in the 9th and 10th centuries.
The political structure here gravitated rapidly toward strong ducal authority, particularly in Bavaria, [Swabia](/…