Anna Wettin, Countess of Hesse

• Daughter of Friedrich I "den Stridbare" of Saxony and Katharina Welf, Margravine of Meißen, Countess Palatine and Electress of Saxony
• Anna was the eldest daughter of Elector Friedrich I of Saxony (1370–1428) from his marriage to Katharina (1395–1442), daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig .
• Anna, endowed with a dowry of 19,000 Rhenish gold guilders, married Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse on September 8, 1433 in Kassel . The engagement was announced on the occasion of the hereditary brotherhood of both houses in Rotenburg an der Fulda in 1431 . Through his marriage, Ludwig expanded his territory considerably. Anna received it back from Anna's brother Friedrich II. Eschwege and Sontra from Saxon property; Frederick II also waived his rights to Wanfried .

Project MedLands, Chapter 8. ELECTORS of SAXONY (WETTIN)

FRIEDRICH von Meissen, son of FRIEDRICH III "der Strenge" joint Markgraf von Meissen & his wife Katharina von Henneberg (11 Apr 1370-Altenburg 4 Jan 1428, bur Meissen Cathedral). The Annales Veterocellenses record the birth "1370 in cena Domini" of "Fridericus filius Friderici marchioni Misniensis"[726]. He succeeded his father in 1381 as FRIEDRICH IV "der Streitbare" Markgraf von Meissen and Landgraf of Thuringia, jointly with his brothers. From 1382 im Osterland Landsberg. He was installed in 1423 by the Emperor as FRIEDRICH I Herzog von Sachsen, Elector of Saxony, in succession to Albrecht IV last Elector of Saxony of the Askanier family who had died in 1422. Married (8 Feb 1402) KATHARINA von Braunschweig, daughter of HEINRICH Herzog von Braunschweig in Lüneburg & his first wife Sophie von Pommern (-Grimma 28 Dec 1442, bur Meissen Cathedral). Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum names “Katherina”, who married “Marggreven Frederiken to Myssen”, as the daughter of “Hertoghe Hinrick, Hertoghe Magnus sone to Brunswick unde Lunenborch” and his first wife[727].

Elector Friedrich I & his wife KATHARINA von Braunschweig had seven children:

• 1. KATHARINA (-young, bur Altzelle).
• 2. FRIEDRICH (Leipzig 1412-Leipzig 1464, bur Meissen Cathedral). Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum names “Frederick...eyn Korforste des Romeschen Rikes” first of the three sons of “Marggreve Frederick to Myssen, Lantgreve to Döringh” and his wife[728]. He succeeded his father in 1428 as FRIEDRICH II "der Sanftmütige" Elector of Saxony, Joint Herzog zu Sachsen jointly with his brothers.
• 3. SIGISMUND (Grimma 3 Mar 1416-in prison in Rochlitz 24 Dec 1471, bur Meissen Cathedral). Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum names “Sygemunt...Bischopp to Würtzburgk” third of the three sons of “Marggreve Frederick to Myssen, Lantgreve to Döringh” and his wife[729]. Canon at Köln cathedral 1437. Bishop of Würzburg 1440, resigned 1443.
• 4. ANNA (5 Jun 1420-17 Sep 1462, bur Spangenberg Stadtkirche). married (Kassel 8 Sep 1433) LUDWIG III "der Friedsame" Landgraf Herr von Hessen, son of HERMANN II "der Gelehrte" Landgraf Herr von Hessen & his second wife Margareta von Nürnberg (-Spangenberg 17 Jan 1458, bur Marburg Elisabethkirche).
• 5. KATHARINA (1421-Berlin 23 Aug 1476, bur Kloster Lehnin). Nun at Seusslitz 1428/1429. Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum records that “Marggreve Frederick de elder, Marggreve Frederikes sone to Brandenborch” married “Katherinam, Hertoghen Frederikes unde Wilhelms suster to Sassen...”[730]. married (Wittenberg 11 Jun 1441) FRIEDRICH II Elector of Brandenburg, son of FRIEDRICH I Markgraf and Elector von Brandenburg & his wife Elisabeth von Bayern-Landshut (Tangermünde 19 Nov 1413-Neustadt am Aisch 10 Feb 1471, bur Heilsbronn).
• 6. HEINRICH (Meissen 21 May 1422-Dresden 22 Jul 1435, bur Dresden Cathedral).
• 7. WILHELM (Meissen 30 Apr 1425-Weimar 17 Sep 1482, bur Weimar Franziskanerkirche). Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum names “Wilhelm...Lantgreve to Doringh...ein Hertoghe to Sassen” second of the three sons of “Marggreve Frederick to Myssen, Lantgreve to Döringh” and his wife[731]. Herzog von Luxemburg 1439-1443, and 1457-1469. He succeeded in 1440 as WILHELM III "der Tapfere" Joint Landgraf of Thuringia, jointly with his brother. His brother relinquished Thuringia to Wilhelm as sole Landgraf in 1445. married firstly (Jena 20 Jun 1446) ANNA Archduchess of Austria, daughter of ALBRECHT V Duke of Austria [ALBRECHT II King of the Romans, ALBERT King of Hungary, ALBRECHT King of Bohemia] & his wife Elisabeth Pss of Bohemia and Hungary [Luxembourg] (Vienna 12 Apr 1432-Eckartsberga 13 Nov 1462, bur Reinhardsbrunn). The Necrologium Austriacum names Anna as older daughter of Duke Albrecht[732]. The Catalogus abbatum Sanganensium records that one daughter of "Albertus dux Austrie" married "Wilhelmo lantgravio Thuringie"[733]. married secondly (Weimar 6 Jul 1463) KATHARINA von Brandenstein, daughter of EBERHARD von Brandenstein zu Oppurg und Brandenstein & his wife Jutta --- (-Saalfeld 2 Nov 1492, bur Weimar St Peter & Paul).

Landgraf Wilhelm & his first wife had two children:

• a) MARGARETA (Weimar 1449-Spandau 13 Jul 1501, bur Berlin Cathedral). Botho’s Chronicon Brunsvicensium Picturatum names “Margareta”, who married “Marggreve Hans to Brandenborch, Marggreven Albrechtes sone”, as the daughter of “Hertoghe Wilhelm to Sassen, Marggreve to Myssen unde Lantgreve to Döringh” and his wife[734]. married (Berlin 26 Aug 1476) JOHANN CICERO von Brandenburg, son of ALBRECHT ACHILLES Elector of Brandenburg & his first wife Margareta von Baden (Ansbach 2 Aug 1455-Schloß Arneburg 9 Jan 1499, bur Berlin Cathedral). He succeeded his father in 1486 as JOHANN CICERO Elector of Brandenburg.
  
• b) KATHARINA (1453-17 Jan 1534). married (26 Feb 1471) HEINRICH II "Hynek" Duke of Münsterberg Graf von Glatz, son of JIŘI von Podiebrad King of Bohemia & his second wife Johanna von Rožmital zu Blatna (17 May 1452-11 Jul 1492, bur Glatz). Herr zu Podiebrad und Kolin 1472.
  

Links:

• The Peerage
• Geneall
• Wikipedia

Sources

• Karl Wilhelm Böttiger: History of the Electoral State and Kingdom of Saxony, p. 378
• Carl Lorenz Collmann: History of the old mountain town of Sontra in Niederhessen, p. 28
• Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : Elector Friedrich II and his brothers, Duke Sigismund and Duke Wilhelm ..., p. 31