public places. Other Augustus II was called "the Strong" for his bear-like physical strength and for his numerous offspring (only one of them his legitimate child and heir). The most famous of the king's children born out of wedlock was Maurice de Saxe, a brilliant strategist who attained the highest military ranks in the kingdom of France. In the War of the Polish Succession he remained loyal to his employer Louis XV of France, who was married to the daughter of Augustus's rival Stanisław I Leszczyński. Augustus was tall, above average height for that time, but despite his extraordinary physical strength, he did not look big. In his final years he suffered from diabetes mellitus and became obese, at his death weighing some . Augustus II's body was interred in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków—all but his heart, which rests at the Dresden Cathedral. Film In 1936 Augustus was the subject of a Polish-German film Augustus the Strong directed by Paul Wegener. Augustus was portrayed by the actor Michael Bohnen. Illegitimate issue The Electress Christiane, who remained Protestant and refused to move to Poland with her husband, preferred to spend her time in the mansion in Pretzsch on the Elbe, where she died. Augustus, a voracious womanizer, never missed his wife, spending his time with a series of mistresses: 1694–1696 with Countess Maria Aurora von Königsmarck 1696–1699 with Countess Anna Aloysia Maximiliane von Lamberg 1698–1704 with Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, later Princess of Teschen 1701–1706 with Maria Aurora, later married von Spiegel, a woman of Turkish origin captured as a toddler named Fatima at the Siege of Buda (1686) and brought up in Sweden as the goddaughter of Maria Aurora von Königsmarck 1704–1713 with Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, later Countess of Cosel 1706–1707 with Henriette Rénard 1708 with Angélique Debargues, French dancer and actress 1713–1719 with Maria Magdalena of Bielinski, by her first marriage Countess of Dönhoff and by the second Princess Lubomirska 1720–1721 with Erdmuthe Sophie of Dieskau, by marriage of Loß 1721–1722 with Baroness Kristiane of Osterhausen, by marriage of Stanisławski Some contemporary sources, including Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, claimed that Augustus had as many as 365 or 382 children. The number is extremely difficult to verify. Perhaps the number refers not to the king's children but to the nights that he spent with his mistresses. Augustus officially recognised only a tiny fraction of that number as his bastards