Anna of Saxony (1420–1462)

Anna of Saxony (born June 5, 1420 , † September 17, 1462 in Spangenberg ) was a princess of Saxony and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse .

Life

Anna was the eldest daughter of Elector Friedrich I of Saxony (1370–1428) from his marriage to Katharina (1395–1442), daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig .

Anna, endowed with a dowry of 19,000 Rhenish gold guilders, married Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse on September 8, 1433 in Kassel . The engagement was announced on the occasion of the brotherhood of both houses in 1431 in Rotenburg an der Fulda . Through his marriage, Ludwig expanded his territory considerably. Anna received it back from Anna's brother Friedrich II. Eschwege and Sontra from Saxon property; Friedrich II also waived his rights to Wanfried .

progeny

From her marriage to Ludwig, Anna had the following children:

• Ludwig (1438–1471), Landgrave of Hesse

⚭ 1454 Countess Mechthild von Württemberg (1438–1495)

• Henry III. (1440–1483), Landgrave of Hessen-Marburg

⚭ Countess Anna von Katzenelnbogen (1443–1494)

• Hermann (1449–1508), 1480–1508 Archbishop of Cologne
• Elisabeth (1453–1489), called "the beautiful"

⚭ 1464 Count Johann III. of Nassau-Weilburg (1441–1480)

• Friedrich (1458–1463)

literature

• Karl Wilhelm Böttiger: History of the Electoral State and Kingdom of Saxony, p. 378
• Carl Lorenz Collmann: History of the old mountain town of Sontra in Niederhessen, p. 28
• Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : Elector Friedrich II and his brothers, Duke Sigismund and Duke Wilhelm ..., p. 31