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Margarete, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. House. House of Wettin. Father. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. Mother. Margaret of Austria-Styria. Ernest (24 March 1441 – 26 August 1486), known as Ernst in German, was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486. Ernst was the founder and progenitor of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes.
Born in Grimma, Catherine was the eldest child of Duke Albert III of Saxony and his wife, the Bohemian princess Sidonie of Poděbrady. Her paternal grandparents were Elector Frederick III of Saxony and Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Habsburg duke Ernest the Iron. Her maternal grandparents were King George of Poděbrady and his first wife ...
Alexandra of Lithuania. Alexandra ( Polish: Aleksandra, Lithuanian: Aleksandra; died 20 April 1434 in Płock) [1] was the youngest daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his second wife, Uliana of Tver. [2] Though Alexandra's exact date of birth is not known, it is thought that she was born in the late 1360s or early 1370s.
Johann Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (30 June 1503, Torgau – 3 March 1554, Weimar). On 13 November 1513 Johann married secondly Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen in Torgau. They had four children: Maria (15 December 1515, Weimar – 7 January 1583, Wolgast), married on 27 February 1536 Duke Philip I of Pomerania-Wolgast.
Cymburgis on a contemporary portrait Cymburgis (also Cimburgis, Zimburgis or Cimburga) of Masovia (Polish: Cymbarka mazowiecka) (1394 or 1397 – September 28, 1429) in January 1412 became the second wife of the Habsburg Duke Ernest the Iron of…
Duchy of Masovia [a] was a district principality and a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Poland, existing during the Middle Ages. [1] [2] The state was centered in Mazovia in the northeastern Kingdom of Poland, and during its existence, its capital was located in the Płock, Czersk and Warsaw. It was formed in 1138 from the territories of the Kingdom ...
Sabina. Helena. Father. Christoph I, Margrave of Baden. Mother. Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen. Beatrix of Baden (22 January 1492 – 4 April 1535) was a margravine (wife of a margrave) of Baden by birth and by marriage and a Countess Palatine of Simmern. She was a daughter of Christoph I, Margrave of Baden and Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen .
