DEATH OF THE KING OF SAXONY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13106, 17 October 1904, Page 5

DEATH OF THE KING OF SAXONY

Press Association—By Te]egraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 15. (Received Oct. 17, at 1.1 a.m.) The death is announced of the Kin" Of Saxohy. . ' ° George, third son of King .Tohann and Uuecn A malic, dnugnter of King ila\imi- '» 1 of , Havana, was horn on August 8, 1832, and succeeded to tlio tlirono on tho ™ iom t? brotllC!r . Kin B Albert, on Juno ia, 1902, lie IVM married on May 11, 1859, to Infanta Maria Anna (born on July 21 1843, died February 5, 1834), daughter of Kmg• I'crdinand of Portugal, Thcro wero six children born of tho union, Princess 11athildo and Prince I'fiedrk-h August being tho oldest. Tho royal houso of Saxonv counts amongst the oldest reigning families m Europe. Hcinrioh of Eilonburg. of the n2Vn f r Uclt f"' was of Meissen UUBH-lluJ), and was succoeded by his son Henricli and Konrad tho Great rrL i well-known in Saxon history. Ihe house subsequently spread into numerj" 13 branches, tho eldest of which is called the Ernestine lino, represented by the ducal families of Saxo-Aitenburg,' liotna and Saxe-Meiningen, and tlio grand ducal family of Saxe-Wcimar j while tho younger — tho Alhertinij line, — livfea in the nilers of -tho Kingdom of Saxony. In 1806 tho Elector Friwlrich August 111 (17631827) atstimcd the titlft of King of Saxony, which was confirmed in 1815. King George had a ciyil list of 3,550,000 -mtrW per