NOBLEMAN

Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz

1619 - 1681

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Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz (28 March 1619 – 4 December 1681) was a duke of Saxe-Zeitz and member of the House of Wettin. Born in Dresden, he was the youngest surviving son of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and his second wife Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz has received more than 40,559 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz is the 950th most popular nobleman (down from 868th in 2019), the 3,391st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,523rd in 2019) and the 202nd most popular German Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz ranks 950 out of 1,415Before him are Adolf II of Holstein, Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, Catherine Desnitski, and Aron of Bulgaria. After him are Othon de la Roche, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, Sophie, Countess of Bar, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, and Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1619, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz ranks 20Before him are Jacob Stainer, Wang Fuzhi, Philip de Koninck, Matthias Weckmann, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Johann Rosenmüller. After him are Marcantonio Giustinian, Henry Oldenburg, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, and Antoine Furetière. Among people deceased in 1681, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz ranks 14Before him are Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Nikolay Diletsky. After him are Hermann Conring, Agafya Grushetskaya, Oliver Plunkett, and Fatima Soltan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz ranks 3,391 out of 7,253Before him are Gerd Faltings (1954), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Greta Schröder (1891), Hedwig Dohm (1831), and Klaus Fichtel (1944). After him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796), Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), Klaus Wowereit (1953), Robert Volkmann (1815), Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), and Jan Ullrich (1973).

Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz ranks 202Before him are Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1568), Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1893), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758), Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544), and Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1848). After him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602), Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918), Sibylle of Saxony (1515), and Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1725).