Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony

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Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony

Princess Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony (born December 23, 1617 in Dresden , † January 6, 1668 in Altenburg ) was Crown Princess of Denmark and Norway and later Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg by marriage .

Life

Magdalena Sibylla was the daughter of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony from the House of Wettin ( Albertine line) and his second wife, Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia .

In 1634, Princess Magdalena Sibylla married the Danish Hereditary Prince Christian of Denmark and Norway in Copenhagen . The wedding was celebrated pompously in the middle of the Thirty Years War . Crown Prince Christian died in 1647 after thirteen years of marriage on a visit to Dresden, without having taken the throne. The marriage remained childless.

In 1652 she was married to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Saxony-Altenburg in her second marriage . From this marriage there were three children:

• Christian (1654–1663), Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Altenburg
• Johanna Magdalena (1656–1686) ⚭ Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxony-Weißenfels (1649–1697)
• Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1657–1672), last representative of the House of Saxony-Altenburg

Her grave is in the princely crypt of the castle church in Altenburg . The Magdalenenstift originally planned as a widow's residence was only completed after her death.

Magdalena Sibylla was the holder of the order of the slave women of virtue .

ancestors

Pedigree of Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony
Great-great-grandparents	Duke Heinrich the Pious (1473–1541) ⚭ 1512 Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487–1561)	King Christian III (1503–1559) ⚭ 1525 Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1511–1571)	Elector Joachim II (1505–1571) ⚭ 1524 Magdalene of Saxony (1507–1534)	Duke Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543) ⚭ 1525 Hedwig von Münsterberg-Oels (1508–1531)	Margrave Friedrich II of Brandenburg (1460–1536) ⚭ 1479 Sofia Jagiellonka (1464–1512)	Prince Erich I (1470–1540) ⚭ 1525 Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558)	Duke Johann von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (1490–1539) ⚭ 1510 Maria von Jülich-Berg (1491–1543)	Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) ⚭ 1521 Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547)
Great grandparents	Elector August of Saxony (1526–1586) ⚭ 1548 Anna of Denmark (1532–1585)		Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg (1525–1598) ⚭ 1548 Sabina von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1529–1575)		Duke Albrecht of Prussia (1490–1568) ⚭ 1550 Anna Maria of Braunschweig (1532–1568)		Duke Wilhelm V (1516–1592) ⚭ 1546 Maria of Austria (1531–1581)
Grandparents	Elector Christian I of Saxony (1560–1591) ⚭ 1582 Sophie of Brandenburg (1568–1622)				Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (1553–1618) ⚭ 1573 Marie Eleonore von Jülich-Kleve-Berg (1550–1608)
parents	Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony (1585–1656) ⚭ 1607 Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia (1586–1659)
Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony

literature

• Mara R. Wade: Triumphus Nuptialis Danicus. German Court Culture and Denmark. The Great Wedding of 1634. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1996. (Wolfenbütteler Arbeit zur Barockforschung 27). ISBN 3-447-03899-3
• Helen Watanabe O'Kelly: The women's ring race - a Saxon invention? In: Saxony and the Wettins. Opportunities and Realities (special issue of the Dresdner Hefte). Dresden 1990.
• lu:  Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 49.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus H. Feder: New Findings on the Insignia of the Habsburg Order of Ladies "Slaves of Virtue", in: Journal of the Austrian Society for Ordenskunde, 44, November 2001, p. 19

Web links

• Literature by and about Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen in the Saxon Bibliography