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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3286272, member: 89314&quot;]Last post in 2018&nbsp; Another 1544 coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany SAXONY Joint Issue Johann Friedrich I the Magnanimous &amp; Moritz</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]868855[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]868856[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The friendship implied in this joint issue is misleading. In 1539, at the age of 18, Moritz was sent to live in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torgau" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torgau" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #404040">Torgau</span></a> with his older cousin Johann Friedrich I , Elector of Saxony. They did not get on and eventually hated each other. In 1541 Moritz succeeded his father as Duke of Saxony and Head of the Albertine Line. </p><p>When his father-in-law Philip of Hesse and Johann Friedrich formed the&nbsp; Protestant Schmalkaldic League against the Catholic forces led by Emperor Charles V, Moritz, although a Protestant, refused to join. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._044.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._044.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._044.jpg/190px-Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._044.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Portrait of Johann Friedrich by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1531.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/200px-Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Portrait of Moritz in armour, by Lucas Cranach the Younger.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1546 the Emperor imposed the Imperial Ban (<i>Reichsacht</i>) on Johann Friedrich, making him an outlaw, considered legally dead. Anyone was allowed to rob, injure or kill him without legal consequences. Moritz fought alongside the Emperor and his brother Ferdinand in the crucial Battle of Mühlberg in 1547, when the Schmalkaldic League was defeated and Philip and Johann Friedrich captured.&nbsp; In order to escape being beheaded, Johann Friedrich was forced to cede the Electorate of Saxony and sizable lands to Moritz.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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