Magdalena Sibylla of Sachsen-Weißenfels (1648–1681)

Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels with her motto "Verbum Dei est Gaudium et Laetitia Cordis Mei." (Latin: "God's word is joy and happiness in my heart.")

Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels (born September 2, 1648 in Halle , † January 7, 1681 in Gotha ) was a born princess of Sachsen-Weißenfels and -Querfurt from the house of the Albertine Wettins and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .

family

Magdalena Sibylla was the eldest daughter of Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels and his wife Anna Maria von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , daughter of Duke Adolf Friedrich I. von Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

She is named after her paternal grandmother, the Saxon Electress Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia .

Life

In 1669 she married the Hereditary Prince Friedrich von Sachsen-Gotha , who ruled from 1672 as governor of his father in Altenburg and from 1674 as prince regent and from 1675 as duke all of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg.

Magdalena Sibylla died at the age of 32 and was buried in the princely crypt of the castle church on the Gotha Peace Stone.

Marriage and offspring

Her only marriage was on November 14, 1669 in Halle with Friedrich I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , the son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha from his marriage to Elisabeth Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg .

She had the following children with her husband:

• Anna Sophia (* December 22, 1670 in Gotha; † December 28, 1728 in Rudolstadt), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ∞ Ludwig Friedrich I., Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Magdalena Sibylla (born September 30, 1671 in Gotha, † March 2, 1673 in Altenburg), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
• Dorothea Maria (born January 22, 1674 in Gotha, † April 18, 1713 in Meiningen), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ∞ Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Friederike (born March 24, 1675 in Gotha; † May 28, 1709 in Karlsbad), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ∞ Johann August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
• Friedrich II. (1676–1732), Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ∞ Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst
• Johann Wilhelm (born October 4, 1677 in Gotha, † August 15, 1707 in Toulon), Prince of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
• Elisabeth (born February 7, 1679 in Gotha, † June 22, 1680 in Gotha), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
• Johanna (born October 1, 1680 in Gotha, † July 9, 1704 in Strelitz), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ∞ Adolf Friedrich II., Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Through her descendants, she is both ancestor of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert .

Web links

• Publications by and about Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels in VD 17 .
• Johann Huebners ... Three hundred and three and thirty genealogical tables. Tab. 169
• Magdalena Sibylle Princess von Sachsen-Weissenfels on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 18, 2016.