"The Electorate of Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen, also Kursachsen) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established when Emperor Charles IV raised the Ascanian duchy ...
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of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of an Electorate by the Golden Bull of 1356. Upon the extinction of the House of Ascania, it was feoffed to the Margraves of Meissen from the Wettin dynasty in 1423, who moved the ducal residence up the river Elbe to Dresden. After the Empire´s dissolution in 1806, the Wettin Electors raised Saxony to a territorially reduced kingdom.
^ Based on many original preserved depictions: Coat of Arms of Electoral Saxony. In: Theatrum Saxonicum (Volume 1). 1608" - (en.wikipedia.org 08.05.2020)
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