Magdalena of Saxony (7 March 1507 – 25 January 1534) was

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, its "''Electoral Princess''", the Electoral equivalent of a crown princess. She was the daughter of George ''the Bearded'', Duke of Saxony and his wife Barbara. Magdalena's maternal grandparents were

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and Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of

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. She was a granddaughter of the Elisabeth aforementioned, mother of the

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, queen of Poland, who had claimed the

Duchy of Luxembourg The Duchy of Luxemburg ( nl, Luxemburg; french: Luxembourg; german: Luxemburg; lb, Lëtzebuerg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, the ancestral homeland of the noble House of Luxembourg. The House of Luxembourg, now Duke of Limburg, b ...

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,

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(1484–1535), the eldest son and heir of

Margaret of Thuringia Margaret of Thuringia or Margaret of Saxony (1449 – 13 July 1501) was a German noblewoman, Electress of Brandenburg by marriage.Ernst Daniel Martin Kirchner: Die Kurfürstinnen und Königinnen auf dem Throne der Hohhenzollern, Berlin, 1867 Sh ...

(1449–1501), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and

William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia William III (30 April 1425 – 17 September 1482), called the Brave (in German ''Wilhelm der Tapfere''), was landgrave of Thuringia (from 1445) and claimant duke of Luxemburg (from 1457). He is actually the second William to rule Thuringia, and ...

. Magdalena was thus married, at

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, on 6 November 1524, to her second cousin's son

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Hector, the future Elector of Brandenburg. Their son was

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, 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 Sigismund I the Old ( pl, Zygmunt I Stary, lt, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the ...

. Magdalena and Joachim II Hector had issue: *

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(1525–1598), had issue *

Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg Barbara of Brandenburg (10 August 1527 – Brzeg, 2 January 1595), was a German princess member of the House of Hohenzollern She was a Margravine of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage a Duchess of Brieg (Brzeg). She was the second child but eldes ...

(1527–1595), had issue * Elisabeth (1528–1529) *

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(1530–1552),

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and Bishop of Halberstadt * Albrecht (1532–1532) * Georg (1532–1532) * Paul (1534–1534)

Ancestry

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