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See also:JOHN (1468-1532) , called the Steadfast, elector of See also:Saxony, See also:fourth son of the elector Ernest, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:June 1468. In 1486, when his eldest See also:brother became elector as See also:Frederick III., John received a See also:part of the paternal See also:inheritance and afterwards assisted his kinsman, the See also:German See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Maximilian I., in several See also:campaigns. He was an See also:early adherent of See also:Luther, and, becoming elector of Saxony by his brother's See also:death
1 This incident earned for him among the Parisians the contemptuous See also:nickname of " John of Lagny, who does not See also:hurry."in May 1525,'was soon prominent among the Reformers. Having assisted to suppress the rising led by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Munzer in 1525, he helped See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, See also:landgrave of See also:Hesse, to found the See also:league of See also:Gotha, formed in 1526 for the See also:protection of the Reformers. He was active at the See also:diet of See also:Spires in 1526, and the " See also:recess " of this diet gave him an opportunity to reform the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in Saxony, where a See also:plan for divine service was See also:drawn up by Luther. The assertions of See also:Otto von See also:Pack that a league had been formed against the elector and his See also:friends induced John to ally himself again with Philip of Hesse in See also:March 1528, but he restrained Philip from making an immediate attack upon their opponents. He signed the protest against the " recess " of the diet of Spires in 1529, being thus one of the See also:original Protestants, and was actively hostile to See also:Charles V. at the diet of See also:Augsburg in 1530. Having signed the See also:confession of Augsburg, he was alone among the See also:electors in objecting to the See also:election of See also:Ferdinand, afterwards the See also:emperor Ferdinand I., as king of the See also:Romans. He was among the first members of the league of See also:Schmalkalden, assented to the religious See also:peace of See also:Nuremberg in 1532, and died at See also:Schweidnitz on the 16th of See also:August 1532. John was twice married and See also:left two sons and two daughters. His See also:elder son, John Frederick, succeeded him as elector, and his younger son was John Ernest (d. 1553). He rendered See also:great services to the See also:Protestant cause in its See also:infancy, but as a Lutheran resolutely refused to come to any understanding with other opponents of the older faith.
See J. See also:Becker, Kurfiirst Johann von Sachsen and See also:seine Beziehungen zu Luther (See also:Leipzig, 189o) ; J. See also:Janssen, See also:History of the German See also:People (See also:English See also:translation), vol. v. (See also:London, 1903) ; L. von See also:Ranke, Deutsche Geschichte See also:im Zeitalter der See also:Reformation (Leipzig, 1882).
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