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Frederick I
elector of Saxony
Quick Facts
- Byname:
- Frederick The Warlike
- German:
- Friedrich Der Streitbare
- Born:
- April 11, 1370
- House / Dynasty:
- Wettin dynasty
Frederick I (born April 11, 1370—died Jan. 4, 1428, Altenburg, Thuringia) was the elector of Saxony who secured the electorship for the House of Wettin, thus ensuring that dynasty’s future importance in German politics. An implacable enemy of the Bohemian followers of Jan Hus, church reformer and accused heretic, Frederick aided the Holy Roman emperor Sigismund against them from 1420 on. When the last Saxon elector of the Ascanian dynasty, Albert III, died in 1422, the emperor Sigismund, ignoring the claims of the elector Frederick I of Brandenburg, in whose hands he did not wish to see another electorate, awarded ...(100 of 116 words)