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Sibylle of Cleves

Sibylle of Cleves (17 January 1512 – 21 February 1554) was electress consort of Saxony.

Sibylle of Cleves

16 August 1532–4 June 1547

17 January 1512
Düsseldorf

21 February 1554(1554-02-21) (aged 42)
Weimar

St. Peter und Paul, Weimar

John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony

John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony
John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony

La Marck

John III, Duke of Cleves

Maria of Jülich-Berg

Born in Düsseldorf,[1] she was the eldest daughter of John III of the House of La Marck, Duke of Jülich jure uxoris, Cleves, Berg jure uxoris, Count of Mark, also known as de la Marck and Ravensberg jure uxoris (often referred to as Duke of Cleves) who died in 1538, and his wife Maria, Duchess of Julich-Berg (1491–1543). Her younger siblings were two sisters, Anne (later Queen of England) and Amalia, and a brother, William, who became Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

(b. Torgau, 8 January 1529 – d. as imperial prisoner at Schloss Steyr, Upper Austria, 19 May 1595).

John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony

(b. Torgau, 11 March 1530 – d. Weimar, 2 March 1573).

John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

John Ernest (b. Weimar, 5 January 1535 – d. Weimar, 11 January 1535).

called the Younger (b. Torgau, 16 January 1538 – d. Jena, 31 October 1565).

John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony

Faith and Power: Saxony in Europe during the Reformation period, Dresden 2004, p. 149.

Joachim Bauer/Dagmar Blaha: The deaths of John Frederick and his wife Sibylle, in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 50 (2004), vol. I, pp. 78–84.

Carl August Hugo Burkhardt: Letters of Sybille of Jülich-Cleves-Berg to her husband John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, in: Journal of the Berg Historical Society, vol. V, 1868, pp. 1–184.

Sylvia Weigelt: "The men pleasure and joy to be": women to Luther. Wartburg 2011.

Heinrich Theodor Flathe: , in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). vol. 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 141.

Electress of Saxony