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3 days ago · Novalis, baptized Georg Philipp Friedrich, was the Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg, born in 1772 at his family estate in the Electorate of Saxony, the Schloss Oberwiederstedt, in the village of Wiederstedt, [2 which is now located in the present-day town of Arnstein.
17 hours ago · It's said, that the elector of Saxony is sending for his princess thither; so that indeed never was a fairer occasion 133 286 406 for great action in Flanders. The French embass. 339 47 355 104 263 132 139 468 532 sayth, that he knowes not in what condition Hesden is, nor 132 consequently what councels will be taken, but 140 503 231 464 106 244 that he will write 159 441 466 as I desired.
2 days ago · On 15 December, the Prussians forced Saxony out of the war with victory in the Battle of Kesselsdorf, leading to the Treaty of Dresden on 25th. Austria accepted Frederick's ownership of Silesia, while Saxony paid him an indemnity of one million crowns; in return, Prussia accepted the Pragmatic Sanction, acknowledged Francis as Emperor, and ...
3 days ago · The Normans (1066–1154) in United Kingdom in History. Also known as: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Written by. Michael Charles Prestwich. Professor of History, University of Durham, England. Author of The Three Edwards and others.
3 days ago · When Erik was killed in 954, Northumbria became a permanent part of the kingdom of England. By becoming rulers of all England, the West Saxon kings had to administer regions with variant customs, governed under West Saxon, Mercian, or Danish law.
2 days ago · The Anglo-Saxons left England a land of villages, but the continuity of village development is uncertain. In the 7th–8th centuries, in what is called the “Middle Saxon shuffle,” many early villages were abandoned, and others, from which later medieval villages descended, were founded.
3 days ago · The Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II ceded the Lusatias to the Electorate of Saxony by the 1635 Peace of Prague; the Duchies of Silesia (Slezsko), acquired by the 1335 Treaty of Trentschin between King John of Bohemia and King Casimir III of Poland.
