William III, Landgrave of Thuringia
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William III of Luxembourg (April 30, 1425 – September 17, 1482), called the Brave (in German Wilhelm der Tapfere), was Landgrave of Thuringia (from 1445) and Duke of Luxemburg (from 1457). He is actually the second William to rule Thuringia and the first in Luxembourg; he was the third Margrave of Meissen named William.
He was a younger son of Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony, and Catherine of Brunswick and Lunenburg. On June 2, 1446 he married Anne of Luxembourg, daughter of Albert II, King of Germany, Bohemia and Hungary and Elisabeth of Luxembourg. On behalf of his wife, he became Duke of Luxembourg from 1457 to 1469. They had two daughters, Margaret of Thuringia (1449-1501) and Catherine of Thuringia (1453 – 10 July 1534), who married Duke Henry II of Münsterberg.
William minted a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen. Its obverse portrait shows a man with a pointed beard wearing a Jewish hat, which the populace took as depicting a typical Jew.
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- 1425 births
- 1482 deaths
- German nobility
- Rulers of Thuringia
- Landgraves of Thuringia
- Saxon princes
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