succumbed two days later in the field camp at the age of 32. He was buried in Freiberg Cathedral. In 1853, 300 years after the battle, the place of his death was commemorated by a monument erected to his memory. The 7.5 ton heavy granite monument came from his native Saxony. Because Maurice died without a surviving male heir, his brother Augustus succeeded him as Elector. In Dresden, shortly after the death of Maurice, he erected the Maurice Monument (Moritzmonument), the first historical monument to be erected in Saxony. Ancestors See also Leipzig University Library References Literature Georg Voigt, Moritz von Sachsen, Leipzig 1876. Erich Brandenburg, Moritz von Sachsen, Bd. I, Leipzig 1899. Günther, Wartenberg, Landesherrschaft und Reformation. Moritz von Sachsen und die albertinische Kirchenpolitik bis 1546. Weimar 1988. Karlheinz Blaschke, Moritz von Sachsen. Ein Reformationsfürst der zweiten Generation. Göttingen 1983. Johannes Herrmann, Moritz von Sachsen. Beucha 2003. Hans Baumgarten, Moritz von Sachsen, Berlin 1941. Hof und Hofkultur unter Moritz von Sachsen (1521–1553), hrsg. von André Thieme und Jochen Vötsch, unter Mitarbeit von Ingolf Gräßler im Auftrag des Vereins für sächsische Landesgeschichte, Beucha 2004. Hans-Joachim Böttcher, Anna Prinzessin von Sachsen (1544-1577) - Eine Lebenstragödie, Dresden 2013, . 1521 births 1553 deaths People from Freiberg Regents of Saxony Prince-electors of Saxony German hunters House of Wettin German military personnel killed in action Burials at Freiberg Cathedral Saxon princes Converts to Lutheranism from Roman Catholicism Albertine branch