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Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Full name	Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Born	( 1612-10-27 ) 27 October 1612 Bayreuth
Died	20 March 1687 (1687-03-20) (aged 74) Dresden
Noble family	House of Hohenzollern
Spouse(s)	John George II, Elector of Saxony
Issue	John George III, Elector of Saxony
Father	Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Mother	Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (27 October 1612 ? 20 March 1687) was Electress of Saxony from 1656 to 1680 as the wife of John George II . ^[1] The daughter of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , and Marie of Prussia , she was by birth a Markgrafin , or Margravine, and a member of the Brandenburg-Bayreuth branch of the House of Hohenzollern .

Life [ edit ]

Born in Bayreuth , she was her parents' fifth child. Her maternal grandparents were Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia , and Marie Eleonore of Cleves . One of her maternal aunts was Duchess Anna of Prussia . She had three surviving siblings: Anna Maria (1609?1680), wife of Prince Johann Anton I von Eggenberg , Duke of Krumlov ; Erdmann August (1615?1651); and George Albert (1619?1666).

She was married to John George , Prince Elector of Saxony, on 13 November 1638 in Dresden . ^[2] He was her first cousin, being the son of her maternal aunt and namesake, Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia . Her sister-in-law and cousin was Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony .

Magdalene Sibylle had a good relationship with the Swedish royal family (the Queen consort from 1620 to 1632, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg , was her first cousin) and was able to save the city of Pirna from attack by a letter to the Swedish commander in 1639, during the Thirty Years' War . In 1680 she was widowed and retired to Freiberg-Colditz.

She died in Dresden in 1687.

Issue [ edit ]

She had three children:

1. Sibylle Marie (Dresden, 16 September 1642 – Dresden, 27 February 1643), died young;
2. Erdmuthe Sophie (Dresden, 25 February 1644 – Schloss Bayreuth, 22 June 1670), married her cousin, Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , on 29 October 1662; died without issue;
3. John George III (Dresden, 20 June 1647 – Tubingen, 12 September 1691), his father's successor as John George III, Elector of Saxony.

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