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Margaret of Austria (c. 1416 – 12 February 1486), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Electress consort of Saxony from 1431 until 1464 by her marriage with the Wettin elector Frederick II. She was a sister of Emperor Frederick III .
Margaret was a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Her high birth made her an object of dynastic policy from infancy. Her father Maximilian was anxious to secure for the House of Habsburg the rich Burgundian inheritance that had passed to him after the death of the last Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, thanks to his marriage to ...
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When Electress Margaret Habsburg of Saxony was born on 21 August 1416, in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, her father, Ernst von Habsburg I, was 38 and her mother, Cymburgis of Masovia, was 22. She married Elector Frederick II Wettin of Saxony on 3 June 1431, in Leipzig, Amt Leipzig, Saxony. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters.
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- Elector Frederick II Wettin of Saxony
Apr 25, 2020 · Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony. Margaret was born around 1416. She was the eldest surviving daughter of Ernest, duke of Austria, and his second wife Cymburgis of Masovia [1] . She married Friedrich II "der Sanftmütige", Elector of Saxony in Leipzig on 3 June 1431 [1] .
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- Friederich (Wettin) Von Sachsen
Margaret of Saxony (c. 1416–1486) Duchess and electress of Saxony . Name variations: Margarethe. Born in 1416 or 1417 in Wiener Neustadt; died on February 12, 1486, in Altenburg; daughter of Cimburca of Masovia (c. 1396–1429) and Ernest (d. 1424, son of Leopold III of Austria); married Frederick II the Gentle (1412–1464), duke and elector ...
Electress of Brandenburg . Born in 1449; died on July 13, 1501; daughter of William III the Brave of Saxony (b. 1425), duke of Luxemburg, and Anne of Austria (1432–1462); married John Cicero (1455–1499), elector of Brandenburg (r. 1486–1499), on August 25, 1476; children: Joachim I Nestor (1484–1535), elector of Brandenburg (r. 1499 ...
Portrait of Margaret aged ten by Jean Hey, c. 1490. Margaret was born on 10 January 1480 and named after her stepgrandmother, Margaret of York. She was the second child and only daughter of Maximilian of Austria (future Holy Roman Emperor) and Mary of Burgundy, co-sovereigns of the Low Countries. In 1482, her mother died and her four-year-old ...
