Margaret of Saxony (1444–1498)

Margarete von Sachsen (* 1444 in Meißen ? † after November 19, 1498 in Seusslitz ?) Was a princess of Saxony and abbess of Seusslitz.

Life

Margarete was a daughter of Elector Friedrich II of Saxony (1412–1464) from his marriage to Margarete (1416 / 7–1486), daughter of Duke Ernst of Austria. Through her mother, she was a niece of Emperor Friedrich III. , her brothers Albrecht and Ernst are the founders of the Albertine and Ernestine lines of the Saxon house; her sister Anna had been Electress of Brandenburg since 1470 , her sister Amalia Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut and her sister Hedwig since 1458 Abbess of Quedlinburg .

Like her sister Hedwig, as the younger daughter of the elector, Margarete was provided with church benefices. She entered the Seusslitz Monastery, founded in 1268 , when she died at the age of 54 as its abbess.

ancestors

Pedigree of Margaret of Saxony
Great-great-grandparents	Margrave Friedrich II (1310–1349) ⚭ 1328 Mathilde of Bavaria (1313–1346)	Heinrich VIII von Henneberg-Schleusingen Jutta von Brandenburg	Duke Magnus II. (1324–1373) Catherine of Anhalt-Bernburg	Wartislaw VI. (1345–1394) ⚭ 1363 Anna of Mecklenburg-Stargard	Duke Albrecht II of Austria (1298–1358) ⚭ 1324 Johanna von Pfirt (1300–1351)	Bernabò Visconti (1323–1385) ⚭ 1350 Beatrice della Scala (–1384)	?	Algirdas (1296–1377) ⚭ around 1350 Juliana Aleksandrovna Tverskaja (~ 1330– ~ 1392)
Great grandparents	Margrave Friedrich III. (1332–1381) ⚭ 1346 Katharina von Henneberg (1334–1397)		Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1355–1416) Sophie of Pomerania (1370–1406)		Duke Leopold III. (1351–1386) ⚭ 1365 Viridis Visconti of Milan (1350–1414)		Ziemowit IV. Alexandra of Lithuania
Grandparents	Elector Friedrich I of Saxony (1370–1428) ⚭ 1402 Katharina von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1395–1442)				Duke Ernst the Iron (1377–1424) ⚭ 1412 Cimburgis of Masovia (1394 / 97–1429)
parents	Elector Friedrich II. (1412–1464) ⚭ 1431 Margaretha of Austria (1416–1486)
Margaret of Saxony

swell

• Matthias Donath (Hrsg.): The grave monuments in the cathedral of Meissen . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2004, ISBN 3-937209-45-X , p. 337 ( limited preview in Google Book search).