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Magdalena of Saxony

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Mother
  
Barbara Jagiellon


Name
  
Magdalena Saxony

House
  
House of Wettin

Magdalena of Saxony

Born
  
7 March 1507, Dresden (
1507-03-07
)

Issue
  
John George, Elector of BrandenburgBarbaraElisabethFriedrich, Archbishop of MagdeburgAlbrechtGeorgPaul

Spouse
  
Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (m. 1524)

Children
  
John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg

Parents
  
Barbara Jagiellon, George, Duke of Saxony


Similar
  
Elisabeth of Anhalt Zerbst, Magdalene of Brandenburg, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony

Died
  
25 January 1534 (aged 26)

Magdalena of Saxony (7 March 1507 – 25 January 1534) was Margravine of Brandenburg, its "Electoral Princess", the Electoral equivalent of a crown princess.

Magdalena of Saxony FilePortrait of Magdalena of Saxony Wife of Elector Joachim II of

She was the daughter of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony and his wife Barbara. Magdalena's maternal grandparents were Kazimierz IV Jagiellon and his wife queen Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert II of Germany.

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 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.

References

Magdalena of Saxony Wikipedia


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