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

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, as well as Electoral Princess of Brandenburg. 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 Jagiellonians, queen of Poland, who had claimed the

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in 1460s as being the younger daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress

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. 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

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

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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: *

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(1525–1598), had issue * Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg (1527–1595), had issue * Elisabeth (1528–1529) * Frederick IV of Brandenburg (1530–1552),

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

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