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Sibylle of Cleves (17 January 1512 – 21 February 1554) was electress consort of Saxony. Born in Düsseldorf, she was the eldest daughter of John III of the...

player Sybille of Bâgé (1255–1294), Countess Consort of Savoy Sybille of Cleves (Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg) (1512–1554), Electress consort of Saxony...

Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark (German: Johann III der Friedfertige; 10 November 1490 – 6 February 1539), known as John the Peaceful, was the Lord of Ravensberg...

daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and sister to Anne of Cleves, who was briefly Queen of England as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. They had four...

descendant of John Frederick, Elector of Saxony in direct male line. He was also a fourth-generation descendant of his wife Sybille of Cleves who was daughter...

II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (Johann Maria Wilhelm; 22 May 1570 – 18 July 1605) was a Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Jena. Johann was the second son of Johann Wilhelm...

wife Sybille of Cleves. To save his life, John Frederick conceded in the Capitulation of Wittenberg to resign the Electorate and the government of his...

duke of Saxe-Weimar. He was the eldest son of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern. At the time of the death of his father...

Agnes of Hesse (31 May 1527 – 4 November 1555) was a princess of Hesse by birth and by marriage Electress of Saxony. Agnes was a daughter of Philip I,...

Sibylle was born in Königsberg, the daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia and Marie Eleonore of Cleves. She married John George on 19 July 1607 in...

Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg (14 January 1656 in Altenburg – 22 January 1686 in Weißenfels) was a member of the House of Wettin. She was a Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg...

years. At the request of Maria and John II, who resided in Cleves, she acted as governor of Jülich-Berg during this period. Sybille was described as spirited...

Countess of La Marck through her marriage to John II, Duke of Cleves in 1489 until her death. She was the daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse...

merged with the Duchy of Cleves. The marriage resulted in the Cleves Union, in which the Duchies of Jülich-Berg-Ravensberg and Cleves-Mark were combined...

the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg upon the death of his father in 1521 Sybille (1512–1554), married to Elector John Frederick of Saxony Anne (1515–1557)...

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...

Elector of Saxony from 1656 to 1680. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin. He was the third but eldest surviving son of John George...

paintings from their frames. The single most valuable work of art he stole was Sybille, Princess of Cleves by Lucas Cranach the Elder from a castle in Baden-Baden...

scholar and early Jesuit (d. 1585) September 22 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557) October 4 – Lucas Cranach the Younger...

Magdalene Sybille of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. John George succeeded his father as elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680; he was also appointed Marshal of the...