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Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Saxony
(15 March 1504,
Dresden
? 26 February 1539, Dresden) was a German nobleman and member of the
Albertine branch
of the
House of Wettin
.
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He was the seventh child and fifth son of
George, Duke of Saxony
and
Barbara Jagiellon
, and grandson of
Casimir IV Jagiellon
. Mentally disabled, he was the second of only four of their ten children to survive to adulthood and, on the death of his elder brother
John
in 1537, succeeded him as
hereditary prince
of the
Duchy of Saxony
.
In Dresden on 27 January 1539, he married the Catholic
Elisabeth
(ca. 1516?1541), daughter of
Ernest II, Count of Mansfeld-Vorderort
and sister of
Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort
. However, he died four weeks later and the marriage was childless. On the day of his death, Frederick's father released him from his obligation to do
homage
: George had hoped that "his obedient son [ie Frederick] would leave behind him so many seeds that his [ie George's] lands might have a ruling lord".
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Frederick was buried in the chapel at
Meissen Cathedral
. George promoted the marriage of Frederick's widow, Elisabeth, to
Maurice
, son of George's Lutheran younger brother,
Henry
. Henry vetoed the idea and, soon afterwards, inherited the Duchy of Saxony from George when the latter died without surviving male issue in April 1539, less than two months after Frederick. The Duchy thus passed out of Catholic hands.
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