Sibylle of Saxony (2 May 1515 in

Freiberg Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage c ...

– 18 July 1592 in

Buxtehude Buxtehude (), officially the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude (german: Hansestadt Buxtehude, nds, Hansestadt Buxthu ()), is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany, belonging to the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is part of the Hamburg ...

) was a Saxon princess of the Albertine line of

House of Wettin The House of Wettin () is a dynasty of German kings, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The dynasty is one of the oldest in Europe, and its ori ...

and by marriage Duchess of

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Life

Sibylle was the eldest child of the Duke

Henry IV of Saxony Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (german: Heinrich der Fromme) (16 March 1473, in Dresden – 18 August 1541, in Dresden) was a Duke of Saxony from the House of Wettin. Succeeding his brother George, Duke of Saxony, a fervent Catholic who sou ...

(1473–1541) from his marriage to

Catherine of Mecklenburg Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487 – 6 June 1561, Torgau), was a Duchess of Saxony by marriage to Henry IV, Duke of Saxony. She was the daughter of the Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg and Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin. Life She married on 6 July ...

(1487–1561), daughter of the Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg. She married on 8 February 1540 in

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Duke

Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510 – 19 March 1581, Buxtehude) was the eldest child and only son of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 July 1563, Neuhaus), daughter of Duke Henry IV ' ...

(1510–1581). This relationship turned out to be important for Sibylle's brother

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during the

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. The marriage proved unhappy and Francis accused Sibylle of ''vindictive and unloving acts''. In later years, Sibylle and Francis reconciled again. In 1552, Sibylle asked her brother

to financially assist her husband, so he could redeem some goods and villages from

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.Johannes Herrmann, Günther Wartenberg, Christian Winte
Political correspondence of the Duke and Elector Maurice of Saxony, Volume 5, p. 778
/ref> In 1588, the Duchess played a prominent role in the affair of her son Maurice, who lived in Buxtehude in the Abbot's House since 1585/86, with Adam von Tschammer's wife Gisela against whom she initiated a trial of

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. Sibylle died in 1592 in Buxtehude and was buried in the Cathedral of

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Children

From her marriage to Francis, Sibylle had the following children: * Albert (*1542 – 1544*) * Dorothea (

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, *11 March 1543 – 5 April 1586*, Herzberg am Harz), ∞ Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (*1531 – 1595*) * Magnus II (*1543 – 14 May 1603*,

) * Ursula (*1545 – 22 October 1620*,

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), married in 1569

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg Henry III (1533 – 19 January 1598), a member of the House of Welf, was Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling List of the rulers of Lüneburg, Prince of Lüneburg from 1559 until 1569, jointly with his brother Will ...

* Francis II (*1547 – 1619*) *

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(*1 November 1550 – 22 April 1585*, Vörde), as Henry III

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(1567–1585), as well as Prince-Bishop of

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(Henry II, 1574–1585) and

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(Henry I, 1577–1585), married Anna von Broich *

(*1551 – 1612*), married in 1581 Katharina von Spörck, divorced in 1582 * Sidonia Catharina (*?– 1594*), married in 1567 (1)

Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn Wenceslaus III Adam of Cieszyn ( cs, Václav III. Adam, german: Wenzel III. Adam, pl, Wacław III Adam; December 1524 – 4 November 1579) was a Duke of Cieszyn from 1528 until his death. He was the second but only surviving son of Wenceslaus I ...

and in 1586 (2) Emmerich III Forgach, Upper Gespan of the

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(*1554 – 1586*,

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at the

and

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Ancestors

References

* Edward Machatschek
''History of the Kingdom of Saxony: According to credible sources: deeds, documents, annals, chronicles, memorial books, memoirs, reports of the nuncius, commentaries, bullaria, private and public letters, speeches, state papers and collections of laws, as proven by careful comparison of older and newer histories'', p. 301
* Peter von Kobbe
History and regional description of the Duchy of Lauenberg, Volume 1, p. 295, p. 336 ff.

External links

* http://www.pkgodzik.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Geschichte_und_Politik/Fortgang_der_Reformation_im_Lauenburger_Land.pdf

Footnotes

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