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JOHN GEORGE III

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 460 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JOHN GEORGE III . (1647-1691), elector of
Saxony
 , the only son of John George II., was born on the loth of June 1647. He forsook the vacillating foreign policy of his father and in June 1683 joined an alliance against France. Having raised the first
standing
  army in the electorate he helped to drive the Turks from Vienna in September 168o, leading .his men with
great
  gallantry; but disgusted with the attitude of the emperor
Leopold
  I. after the victory, he returned at once to
Saxony
 . However, he sent aid to
Leopold
  in 1685. When Louis XIV.'s armies invaded Germany in September 1688 John George was one of the first to take up arms against the French, and after sharing in the capture of Mainz he was appointed
commander
 -in-
chief
  of the imperial forces. He had not, however, met with any notable success when he died at
Tubingen
  on the 12th of September 1691. Like his father, he was very fond of music, but he appears to have been less extravagant than John George II. His wife was Anna
Sophia
 , daughter of Frederick III. king of
Denmark, and both his sons, John George and Frederick
Augustus
 , became electors of Saxony, the latter also becoming king of Poland as
Augustus
  II.


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