Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels

Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe- Weissenfels ( born September 2, 1648 Hall, † January 7, 1681 in Gotha ) was born a Princess of Saxe - Weissenfels and cross- ford from the house of the Albertine Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg.

Family

Magdalena Sibylla was the eldest daughter of the Duke Augustus of Saxe - Weissenfels and his wife Anna Maria of Mecklenburg -Schwerin, daughter of Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg -Schwerin.

She is the paternal grandmother after her, the Saxon Electress Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia, named.

Life

In 1669 she married the Crown Prince Friedrich of Saxe- Gotha, who ruled as governor of his father in Altenburg and after 1674 as Prince Regent from 1675 or from 1672 when Duke quite Saxe-Gotha -Altenburg.

Magdalena Sibylla died at the age of 32 and was buried in the royal crypt of the castle church at the Gotha peace stone.

Marriage and issue

Her only marriage purpose, on November 14, 1669 in Halle with Frederick I, Duke of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg, the son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe- Gotha from his marriage to Elisabeth Sophia of Saxe- Altenburg.

With her ​​husband, she had the following children:

  • Anna Sophia ( born December 22, 1670 in Gotha, † February 28, 1706 in Rudolstadt ), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ∞ Ludwig Friedrich I, Prince of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt
  • Magdalena Sibylla ( born September 30, 1671 at Gotha, † March 2, 1673 in Altenburg ), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg
  • Dorothea Maria ( * January 22, 1674 in Gotha, † April 18, 1713 in Meiningen ), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ∞ Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe- Meiningen
  • Friederike (* March 24, 1675 in Gotha, † May 28 1709 in Carlsbad), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ∞ Johann August, Prince of Anhalt -Zerbst
  • Frederick II (1676-1732), Duke of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ∞ Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt- Zerbst
  • Johann Wilhelm ( born October 4, 1677 Gotha; † August 15, 1707 in Toulon), Prince of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg
  • Elizabeth (* February 7, 1679 in Gotha, † June 22, 1680 in Gotha ), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg
  • Johanna ( born October 1, 1680 in Gotha, † July 9, 1704 in Strelitz ), Princess of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ∞ Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg -Strelitz

Through their descendants it is both ancestress of Queen Victoria as well as by their husband Prince Albert.

Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Integrated Authority File
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