Anna of Saxony (5 June 1420 – 17 September 1462,

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) was a princess of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

and by marriage landgravine of

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Life

Anna was the eldest daughter of the elector

Frederick I of Saxony Frederick Augustus I (; ; ; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827) was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as the last Electorate of Saxony, Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806 (as Frederick Augustus III) and as the first King of Kingdom of Sa ...

(1370–1428) from his marriage to

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(1395–1442), daughter of Duke Henry I "the Mild" of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Anna, with a dowry of 19,000 Rhenish gold florins, married on 8 September 1433 in

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Landgrave

Louis I Louis I may refer to: Cardinals * Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (1527–1578) Counts * Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg (c. 1098–1158) * Louis I of Blois (1172–1205) * Louis I of Flanders (1304–1346) * Louis I of Châtillon (died 13 ...

of Hesse. Their engagement had been announced on the occasion of the Inheritance Treaty between the two houses in 1431 in

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. Through this marriage, Louis increased his territory considerably. He received the Saxon properties of

Eschwege Eschwege (), the district seat of the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, is a town in northeastern Hesse, Germany. In 1971, the town hosted the eleventh ''Hessentag'' state festival. Geography Location The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Wer ...

and

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from Anna's brother Frederick II of Saxony. Frederick II also renounced his rights to

Wanfried Wanfried () is a town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeasternmost Hesse, Germany. It is classified as a ''Landstadt'', a designation given in Germany to a municipality that is officially a town (''Stadt''), but whose population is below 5,000 ...

Issue

From her marriage to Louis, Anna had the following children: # Louis II (1438–1471), Landgrave of Hesse, married in 1454 Countess Mechthild of Württemberg (1438-1495) # Henry III (1440–1483), Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, married Countess Anna of

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(1443-1494) # Hermann (1449–1508),

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(from 1480-1508) # Elisabeth (1453–1489), known as ''the Beautiful,'' married in 1464 Count John III of Nassau-Weilburg (1441-1480) # Frederick (1458–1463)

References

* Karl Wilhelm Böttiger
''History of the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony'', p. 378
* Carl Lorenz Collmann
''History of the old town of Sontra in Lower Hesse'', p. 28
* Karl Florentin Leidenfrost
''Elector Frederick II and his brothers, Duke Sigismund and Duke William ...'', p. 31
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