Personal union of Poland and Saxony

Poland–Saxony
Unia polsko-saska (Polish)
Sachsen-Polen (German)
1697–1763
StatusPersonal union
CapitalWarsaw (de facto)/Kraków (de jure) and Dresden[a]
King 
• 1697–1733
Augustus II the Strong
• 1733–1763
Augustus III of Poland
Historical eraEarly modern period
• Established
1697
• Disestablished
1763
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Electorate of Saxony
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Electorate of Saxony
a. ^ The king resided alternately in Warsaw and Dresden, whereas Kraków remained the officially designated capital of Poland. The kings also often stopped and hosted meetings with foreign delegations and sessions of the Senate in Wschowa, which was dubbed the "unofficial capital of Poland".

The personal union of Poland and Saxony, or Saxony-Poland, was the personal union that existed from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 to 1763 between the Electorate of Saxony under the House of Wettin and the aristocratic republic/elective monarchy of Poland-Lithuania. After the death of Augustus III of Poland in 1763, the personal union expired because the guardian of the still underage Saxon Elector Frederick Augustus III (1750–1827) renounced his claims to the throne and the Russian Empress Catherine the Great had her favorite Stanislaus II August Poniatowski elected king. In Poland, the period with Wettin rulers on the Polish throne is also called the Saxon period (czasy saskie). In Polish memory it is known for its particular disorder.

This period was the first since Bolesław I the Brave that Poland and Meissen/Saxony were politically connected.