Magdalena of Saxony

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Electoral Princess of Brandenburg

Duchess Magdalena of Saxony

Electoral Princess of Brandenburg
Margravine of Brandenburg

Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1529

Born| 7 March 1507
Dresden
Died| 25 January 1534(1534-01-25) (aged 26)
Spouse|

Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg

(m. 1524)​

Issue| John George, Elector of Brandenburg
Barbara
Elisabeth
Friedrich, Archbishop of Magdeburg
Albrecht
Georg
Paul
House| Wettin
Father| George, Duke of Saxony
Mother| Barbara Jagiellon

Magdalena of Saxony (7 March 1507 – 25 January 1534) was Margravine of Brandenburg, as well as Electoral Princess of Brandenburg.[1]

She was the daughter of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony and his wife Barbara. Magdalena's maternal grandparents were Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert II of Germany.[2]

She was a granddaughter of the Elisabeth aforementioned, mother of the Jagiellonians, queen of Poland, who had claimed the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1460s as being the younger daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress Elisabeth of Luxembourg, Queen of Bohemia. Though by no means an heiress of her grandmother, she was intended to wed the heir of her grandmother's older sister. Joachim (1505–1571), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg (1484–1535), the eldest son and heir of Margaret of Thuringia (1449–1501), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.

Magdalena was thus married, at Dresden, on 6 November 1524, to her second cousin's son Joachim II Hector, the future Elector of Brandenburg. Their son was John George, another future Elector of Brandenburg. After Magdalena's death which occurred well before Joachim ascended the electorate, Joachim II Hector married Hedwig Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland.

Magdalena and Joachim II Hector had issue:

* John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525–1598), had issue
* Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg (1527–1595), had issue
* Elisabeth (1528–1529)
* Frederick IV of Brandenburg (1530–1552), Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Halberstadt
* Albrecht (1532–1532)
* Georg (1532–1532)
* Paul (1534–1534)

## Ancestry

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Ancestors of Magdalena of Saxony

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| 4\. Albert III, Duke of Saxony|

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| 9\. Margarete of Austria

| 2\. George, Duke of Saxony|

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| 10\. George of Poděbrady

| 5\. Sidonie of Poděbrady|

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| 11\. Kunigunde of Sternberg

| 1\. Magdalena of Saxony|
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| 12\. Władysław II Jagiełło

| 6\. Casimir IV Jagiellon|

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| 13\. Sophia of Halshany

| 3\. Barbara Jagiellon|

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| 14\. Albert II of Germany

| 7\. Elisabeth of Austria|

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| 15\. Elizabeth of Luxembourg

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## References

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1. ^ Kinney, Arthur F.; Lawson, Jane A. (2014), Kinney, Arthur F.; Lawson, Jane A. (eds.), "Rulers of Other Countries During the Reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603)", Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers, 1558–1603, Queenship and Power, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 235–241, doi:10.1057/9781137461483_13, ISBN 978-1-137-46148-3, retrieved 2023-12-18
2. ^ Rechcigl, Miloslav (31 July 1995). "The Czech Roots of Erdmuthe Dorothea Countess of Zinzendorf (1700–1756)". Bohemia. 36 (1): 126–137. doi:10.18447/BoZ-1995-2517.

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Princesses of Saxony by birth

The generations are numbered from the ascension of Frederick I as Elector of Saxony in 1423.

2nd generation|

* Margaret, Electress of Brandenburg

3rd generation|

* Christina, Queen of Denmark and Norway

4th generation|

* Christine, Landgravine of Hesse
* Magdalena, Electoral Princess of Brandeburg

5th generation|

* Anna, Princess of Orange

7th generation|

* Sophia Eleonore, Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt
* Marie Elisabeth, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
* Magdalene Sibylle, Princess Elect of Denmark and Norway

9th generation|

none

10th generation|

none

11th generation|

* Maria Amalia, Queen of Spain1
* Maria Anna Sophia, Electress of Bavaria1
* Maria Josepha, Dauphine of France1
* Maria Christina, Abbess of Remiremont1
* Princess Maria Elisabeth1
* Maria Kunigunde, Abbess of Essen1

12th generation|

* Maria Amalia, Duchess of Zweibrücken
* Maria Christina, Princess of Carignan

13th generation|

* Princess Maria Augusta
* Princess Amalie
* Maria Ferdinanda, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
* Maria Anna, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
* Maria Josepha Amalia, Queen of Spain

14th generation|

* Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Genoa
* Anna, Grand Princess of Tuscany
* Margaretha, Archduchess Karl Ludwig of Austria
* Sophie, Duchess Karl Theodor in Bavaria

15th generation|

* Princess Mathilde
* Maria Josepha, Archduchess Otto of Austria

19th generation|

* none

* 1 królewna of Poland and Lithuania

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

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