Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen

Margarete von Anhalt ( born November 12, 1494 in Köthen; † October 7, 1521 in Weimar) from the family of Ascanians, was a princess of Anhalt and by marriage Duchess of Saxony.

Life

Margaret was a daughter of Prince Waldemar VI. from his marriage to Margaret (1464-1539), daughter of Count Günther XXXVI. of Schwarzburg- Blankenburg.

On November 13 1513 she became the second wife of the Elector John at Torgau later to become the Steadfast of Saxony ( 1468-1532 ). Johann's brother Frederick the Wise was unhappy about the marriage of his brother with the coming of a relatively insignificant Haus Margarete. The marriage was the occasion that the brothers gave up their joint holding of court and divided the country. Margaret's brother Wolfgang was. These by kinship relations of the second German Empire after the Prince Elector of Saxony, who confessed to the Lutheran doctrine In 1514 the poet Philip Engelbrecht Margaret and John dedicated a Epithalamium.

John was devoted to conjugal love and fidelity of his wife. Margarete died at her residence in Weimar, four years before her husband Saxon Elector was. It is in the local church of St Peter and Paul buried.

Progeny

From their marriage, Margaret had the following children:

• Maria (1515-1583)

• Margaret (1518-1535)
• John II (* / † 1519)
• Johann Ernst (1521-1553), Duke of Saxe- Coburg