Margaret of Thuringia
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Margarethe of Saxony (born 1449 in Weimar, died 13 July 1501 in Spandau) was a German noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Wilhelm "der Tapfere" and Anna von Hapsburg.
[edit] Family and children
On 15 August 1476, in Berlin, she married Johann 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 King Frederick I of Denmark.
- Ursula (17 October 1488–18 September 1510, Güstrow), married 16 February 1507 to Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
[edit] Genetics
As a matrilineal relative of Elisabeth of Luxembourg and ultimately of Nicholas II of Russia, she and all her female-line descendants are members of mitochondrial haplogroup T.
