Magdalena of Saxony

Duchess Magdalena of Saxony
Electoral Princess of Brandeburg Margravine of Brandenburg
Born	7 March 1507 Dresden
Died	25 January 1534 (aged 26)
Spouse	Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg
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, 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 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.

Ancestors of Magdalena of Saxony

16. Frederick I, Elector of Saxony               8. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony                       17. Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg               4. Albert III, Duke of Saxony                             18. Ernest, Duke of Austria               9. Margarete of Austria                       19. Cymburgis of Masovia               2. George, Duke of Saxony                                   20. Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady               10. George of Poděbrady                       21. Anna of Wartenberg               5. Sidonie of Poděbrady                             22. Smil of Sternberg               11. Kunigunde of Sternberg                       23. Barbara of Pardubice               1. Magdalena of Saxony                                         24. Algirdas of Lithuania               12. Władysław II Jagiełło                       25. Uliana of Tver               6. Casimir IV Jagiellon                             26. Andrew of Halshany               13. Sophia of Halshany                       27. Alexandra Drucka               3. Barbara Jagiellon                                   28. Albert IV, Duke of Austria               14. Albert II of Germany                       29. Johanna Sophia of Bavaria               7. Elisabeth of Austria                             30. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor               15. Elizabeth of Luxembourg                       31. Barbara of Cilli