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Frederick married firstly Agnes of Gorizia-Tyrol (d. 14 May 1293) in 1286, daughter of Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia and Elisabeth of Bavaria.They had one son: Frederick the Lame (9 May 1293 – 13 January 1315, Zwenkau), married Anna (d. 22 November 1327, Wismar), daughter of Albert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Agnes Habsburg, Daughter of Rudolph I of Germany.
The grave of Frederick I of Saxony, Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral Portal to the Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral. Frederick I, the Belligerent or the Warlike (German: Friedrich der Streitbare; 11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428), a member of the House of Wettin, ruled as Margrave of Meissen from 1407 and Elector of Saxony (as Frederick I) from 1423 until his death.
In 1423, Margrave Frederick IV was assigned the heirless Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, formerly held by the House of Ascania, by Emperor Sigismund in turn for his support against the Hussites. The Wettin rulers thereby entered into the Saxon electorate , in which they ultimately merged their margravial lands abandoning Meissen's status as an ...
King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (Mišno) on the Elbe river. Later named Albrechtsburg, the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast Marca Geronis (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon ...
William II, Margrave of Meissen, 1371–1425 III. George of Meissen, 1380–1401, died without issue B. Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia, 1336–1406, had 1 son; I. Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, 1384–1440 C. Louis, Archbishop of Mainz, 1341–1382, died without issue D. William I, Margrave of Meissen, 1343–1407
But when Frederick VI chose the western part (Thuringia) instead of Meissen, William III rejected his choice and the Saxon Fratricidal War started. In the end Frederick VI received Meissen and William III received Thuringia. Margaret of Austria: Ernest, Duke of Austria 1416/17 3 June 1431 7 September 1464 husband's death: 12 February 1486
Matilde married May 1323 in Nürnberg to Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, son of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen and had 9 children: Elisabeth (22 November 1329 – 21 April 1375), married to Friedrich V, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Frederick (born and died 1330) Frederick III the Strict; Balthasar
Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen; Frederick I, Elector of Saxony; Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen; Frederick II, Elector of Saxony; Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia; Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia; Frederick Tuta; Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen