In 1515, the town was burnt in a battle between the Duke of Gelre and the Duke of Saksen.
1678 in Villecerf, in the Province of Champagne (now commune of Messon in the French departement of Aube) and died the died April 29, 1727 in Dresden, Duchy of Saxony (now federal state of Saxony, Germany) is a French sculptor who spent more of his proeminent artistic life in Dresden where he was the First sculptor of the King Augustus II the Strong.
The monastery was founded in 936 from Corvey Abbey, of which it was a priory, on initiative of Saxon Count Siegfried of Merseburg and his second wife Guthia (Jutta) upon the death of King Henry I.
The chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld mentioned the destruction of Burg Hanenstein, then in possession of Saxon Count Otto von Northeim, by King Henry IV in 1070.
Mieszko I, after winning the 972 Battle of Cedynia against the Saxon margrave Odo I, had annexed to the early Polish state the territory on which later the town was founded.
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By 1111 the Saxon Duke Lothair of Supplinburg, later king of the Holy Roman Empire, erected castrum vorde, the Vörde Castle at an Oste ford, important for the Oxen Way, an ancient trackway connecting Jutland with Westphalia.
After the lost 1164 Battle of Verchen, where Casimir and Bogislaw aided an Obodrite rebellion against the duke of Saxony, Henry the Lion, Casimir and Bogislaw joined Saxony receiving their respective part duchies as a fief from Henry the Lion.
Upon the death of King Louis the Child, Conrad was elected King of the East Frankish kingdom on 10 November 911 at Forchheim by the rulers of Saxony, Swabia (Alamannia) and Bavaria.
The dies for all half-guineas of Queen Anne and King George I were engraved by John Croker, in immigrant originally from Dresden in the Duchy of Saxony.
Hermann hailed from Bexhövede (now a part of Loxstedt, Lower Saxony) in the Duchy of Saxony, and was also known as "Hermann of Buxhoeveden" and other variations, such as Buxhöwden and Buxthoeven.
It soon became famous for its school, which produced many celebrated scholars, among them the tenth-century Saxon historian Widukind of Corvey.
Kneitlingen in the medieval Duchy of Saxony was first mentioned in an 1135 deed issued by Emperor Lothair III, whereby he granted the estates to the newly established Benedictine abbey of Königslutter.
In the Early Middle Ages, Northern Germany was the settlement area of the Saxon tribes, which were subjugated by the Frankish ruler Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars from 772 onwards, whereafter the Imperial Duchy of Saxony was established in 804.
When he heard that one Mongol group raided as far as the Saxonian town Meissen promptly marched there and seek reinforcements from Thuringia and Saxony.
His father was either Count William III of Weimar, his mother probably Oda, daughter of the Saxon margrave Thietmar of Lusatia.
The settlement arose in the Eastphalian Salzgau region of the medieval Duchy of Saxony; the Immedinger relatives of duchess consort Matilda, wife of Henry the Fowler, founded a nunnery here as a proprietary monastery about 940.
Born at Schöningen in Saxony, the able and intelligent Willigis received a good education, and was recommended by Bishop Volkold of Meissen to the service of Emperor Otto I.
Albert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1250–1298), first duke of Saxe-Wittenberg after its definite division from the Duchy of Saxony in 1296
In 1554, after the death of his father, John William inherited the duchy of Saxony with his older brother, John Frederick II, and his younger brother, John Frederick III.