Magdalene Sibylle (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) Sachsen (1612 - 1687)

Born Oct 1612 in Bayreuth [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Johann Georg (Wettin) Sachsen — married 13 Nov 1638 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Descendants

Died 20 Mar 1687 in Dresden, Sachsen

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Magdalene Sibylle (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) Sachsen is a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

Magdalene Sibylle Brandenburg-Bayreuth was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Magdalene Sibylle (or Magdalena Sibylla), Markgrafin von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, was the fourth daughter and fifth child of Christian von Brandenburg, Markgraf von Bayeuth, and his wife Marie, Herzogin von Preßen, both from the House of Hohenzollern, and was probably born at Schloss Bayreuth.^[1]

Magdalene's birth date is not totally clear, a letter held in the Archives of Marburg, written on the 28 October 1612, indicates she was born between 10 and 11 at night, but it's not clear whether this is the night of 27-28 October or 28-29 October.^[2] This is thought to be an old style date, and her birth is often rendered as new style, usually 7 November 1612, ^[1] but it should probably be 6 or 7 November. Other sources have 1 November 1612^[3] but this seems to go against the primary source. She was baptised on 25 November 1612 at Bayreuth.^[1]

She married 13 (old style) or 23 (new style) of November 1638 at Dredsen, her first cousin, Johann Georg von Sachsen, the eldest surviving son of Johann Georg I, Kurfürst von Sachsen (Elector of Saxony), and his second wife, Magdalene Sibylle, Herzogin von Preußen.

They had 3 children;

1. Sibylle Marie, born 16 September 1642 at Dresden, died young 27 February 1643 also at Dresden;
2. Erdmuthe Sophie, born 15/25 February 1644 at Dresden, married 29 October 1662 at Dresden, her cousin, Christian Ernst, Markgraf von Brandenburg-Bayreuth;
3. Johann Georg III, born 20/30 June 1647 at Dreden, succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony.

Her husband succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony as Johann Georg II in 1656,^[2] and Magdalene Sibylle became the Electress (Kurfürstin).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Grossmann, Julius, Ernst Berner, Georg Schuster, and Karl Theodor Zingeler. Genealogie Des Gesamthauses Hohenzollern. Berlin: W. Moeser Buchhandlung, 1905. Digitised by Google Books (http://books.google.com.au/ : downloaded 27 March 2010).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain; Magdelaine, F. & Magdelaine, B., L'Allemagne Dynastique: Les quinze Familles qui ont fait l'Empire, Tome 1 Hesse-Reuss-Saxe, France, Le Perreux : Alain Giraud, 1976. p. 397, note 10, p. 403 & pp. 411-12
3. ↑ Posse, Otto, Die Wettiner: Genealogie des gesammthauses Wettin, Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, 1897. Digitised by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek (BSB) https://goo.gl/fYBVSE : accessed 25 September 2016. Tafel 29.

• Magdalena Sibylle von Brandenburg-Bayreuth on Find A Grave: Memorial #36064989 Retrieved 25 sep 2016.

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• Wikipedia:de:Magdalena_Sibylle_von_Brandenburg-Bayreuth
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