Background
Anna was a daughter of the Elector Frederick II of Saxony from his marriage to Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Duke Ernest of Austria.
Anna was a daughter of the Elector Frederick II of Saxony from his marriage to Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Duke Ernest of Austria.
On 12 November 1458 Anna married Albert Achilles of Brandenburg, later Elector Albert III Achilles, in Ansbach. As her Wittum, Anna received Hoheneck Castle and district, plus Leutershausen and Colmberg. At the time of Anna"s marriage, Albert Achilles held all the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollerns.
In 1470, he also inherited the Electorate of Brandenburg.
In 1473 Anna agreed to a new House law, which made Mark Brandenburg indivisible, but allowed the Franconian possessions to be shared among several sons. Albert Achilles specified in his will that Anna was entitled to income and residency in Neustadt an der Aisch, Erlangen, Dachsbach, Baiersdorf and Liebenow.
Her sons, however, would retain sovereignty over those territories. Anna died in 1512 and was buried in Heilsbronn Abbey.
The memorial on her tomb was built about 1502 and is still preserved.
Frederick I (1460–1536), Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
married in 1479 princess Sophia of Poland (1464–1512)
Amalie (1461–1481)
married in 1478 Count Palatine Kaspar of Zweibrücken (1458–1527)
Anna (* / † 1462)
Barbara (1464–1515)
married firstly in 1472 Duke Henry XI. by Crossen and Glogau (ca 1430–1476)
married secondly in 1476 King Vladislav II of Bohemia (1456–1516) (divorced in 1500)
Albert (* / † 1466)
Sibylle (1467–1524)
married in 1481 Duke Wilhelm IV of Jülich-Berg (1455–1511)
Siegmund (1468–1495), Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Albert (* / † 1470)
Dorothea (1471–1520), Abbess in Bamberg
George (1472–1476)
Elisabeth (1474–1507)
married in 1491, Count Hermann VIII of Henneberg-Aschach (1470–1535)
Magdalene (1476–1480)
Anastasia (1478–1534)
married in 1500 Count William IV of Henneberg-Schleusingen (1478–1559).