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See also:JOHN See also:GEORGE II . (1613-168o), elector of See also:Saxony, was See also:born on the 31st of May 1613. In 1657, just after his See also:accession, he made an arrangement with his three See also:brothers with the See also:object of preventing disputes over their See also:separate territories, and in 1664 he entered into friendly relations with See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. He received See also:money from the See also:French 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, but the existence of a strong See also:anti-French party in Saxony induced him occasionally to See also:respond to the overtures of the See also:emperor See also:Leopold I. The elector's See also:primary interests were not in politics, but in See also:music and See also:art. He adorned See also:Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of See also:Germany; welcoming See also:foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid See also:court, and his See also:capital was the See also:constant See also:scene of musical and other festivals. His enormous See also:expenditure compelled him in 1661 to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant greater See also:control over monetary matters to the estates, a step which laid the See also:foundation of the later See also:system of See also:finance in Saxony. John George died at See also:Freiberg on the 22nd of See also:August 1680.
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