IV.6.2 Godfather & Godmother

When born Friedrich August Huthsteiner had very prominent Godfather and Godmother for his baptism: the Elector of Saxony and Designated King of Poland, first King of Saxony Friedrich I. August and his wife Maria Amalie Auguste, the Electress and first Queen of Saxony and Duchess of Warsaw. Friedrich August Huthsteiner, as his father Christian Heinrich an artillery officer, was killed in the Napoleonic Wars during the siege of Torgau.

Elector Friedrich August

 

Electress Amalie Auguste

 

Carl Heinrich Huthsteiner, brother of Friedrich August above, had Electress Amalie Auguste as godmother, too.

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