death_date birth_date reign father house death_place image_size spouse image name predecessor succession birth_place issue successor mother religion burial_place article_title
6 june 1836 27 december 1755 5 may 1827 -- 6 june 1836 frederick christian , elector of saxony house of wettin dresden 180px maria carolina of savoy maria theresia of austria anton-sachsen . jpg anthony frederick augustus i king of saxony dresden princess princess maria theresia maria ludovika prince frederick augustus princess maria johanna frederick augustus ii maria antonia of bavaria roman catholicism katholische hofkirche anthony of saxony

anthony of saxony

anthony -lrb- dresden , 27 december 1755 -- dresden , 6 june 1836 -rrb- , also known by his german name anton -lrb- full name : `` anton clemens theodor maria joseph johann evangelista johann nepomuk franz xavier aloys januar '' -rrb- , was a king of saxony -lrb- 1827 -- 1836 -rrb- from the house of wettin .
he became known as `` anton der gütige '' , -lrb- en : `` anthony the kind '' -rrb- .
he was the fifth but third surviving son of frederick christian , elector of saxony , and maria antonia of bavaria .
