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Margaret of Thuringia

Electress consort of Brandenburg from 1486 to 1499

Field	Value
consort	yes
name	Margaret of Thuringia
image	Johann Cicero.jpg
caption	Margaret of Thuringia with her husband, John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
house	Wettin
succession	Electress consort of Brandenburg
reign	11 March 1486 – 9 January 1499
issue	{{Plainlist
father	William III, Landgrave of Thuringia
mother	Anne of Austria, suo jure Duchess of Luxembourg
spouse
birth_date	1449
birth_place	Weimar
death_date
death_place	Spandau
place of burial	Berlin Cathedral (tomb lost, 1750)

Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg
Albert, Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz
Anna of Brandenburg
Ursula, Duchess of Mecklenburg Margaret of Thuringia or Margaret of Saxony (1449 – 13 July 1501) was a German noblewoman, Electress of Brandenburg by marriage.

She was the daughter of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia and Anne of Austria, Duchess of Luxembourg suo jure.

Family and children

On 15 August 1476, in Berlin, she married John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg. They had the following children:

Wolfgang, born and died 1482.
Joachim I Nestor (21 February 1484–11 July 1535), Elector Brandenburg.
Elisabeth, born and died 1486.
Albert (1490, Berlin–24 September 1545, Mainz), Cardinal since 1518, Archbishop of Magdeburg in 1513-14, Archbishop of Mainz in 1514-45.
Anna (27 August 1487, Berlin–3 May 1514, Kiel), married 10 April 1502 to the future King Frederick I of Denmark (she was never queen consort, since she died before her husband's accession).
Ursula (17 October 1488–18 September 1510, Güstrow), married 16 February 1507 to Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg.

References

Ernst Daniel Martin Kirchner: Die Kurfürstinnen und Königinnen auf dem Throne der Hohhenzollern, Berlin, 1867

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