Anna of Sagan

{{Short description|Member of the House of Piast}}

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| name = Anna of Sagan

| image = Karol I Podiebradowicz.jpg

| caption = The tomb of Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels and Anna of Sagan

| noble family = Silesian Piast

| father = Jan II the Mad

| mother = Catherine of Opava

| spouse = Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

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| death_date = 1541

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Anna of Sagan (Polish: Anna żagańska, Czech: Anna Zaháňská, also Hlohovsko-Zaháňská or Zaháňsko-Hlohovská) (born c. 1480, died 27 or 28 October 1541) was the last surviving member of the Głogów-Żagań branch of the Silesian Piasts family, and by marriage duchess of Münsterberg and Oels.

She was the daughter of Prince Jan II the Mad.{{cite book |last1=Jasiński |first1=Kazimierz |title=Rodowód Piastów śląskich |date=2007 |publisher=Avalon |location=Kraków |isbn=978-83-60448-28-1 |page=428 |edition=2}} On 7 January 1488 she married Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels, with whom she had twelve children:

  1. Henry (* / † 1497)
  2. Anna (1499–1504)
  3. Catherine (1500–1507)
  4. Margareta (1501–1551), married to Jan Zajíc of Hasenburg
  5. Joachim (1503–1562), Bishop of Brandenburg
  6. Kunhuta (1504–1532), married to Christopher Cernohorsky of Boskowitz
  7. Ursula Vorsila (1505–1539), married to Jerome of Bieberstein
  8. Henry II (1507–1548), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
  9. Hedwig (1508–1531), married in 1525 George of Brandenburg-Ansbach
  10. John (1509–1565), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
  11. Barbara (1511–1539), Abbess in Strzelin near Oleśnica
  12. George II (1512–1553), married to Elizabeth Kostka of Postupitz

She died on 27 or 28 October 1541{{cite book |last1=Jasiński |first1=Kazimierz |title=Rodowód Piastów śląskich |date=2007 |publisher=Avalon |location=Kraków |isbn=978-83-60448-28-1 |page=429 |edition=2}} and was buried alongside her husband in the parish church of St. Anna in Frankenstein.

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References

  • {{Citation | last = Fukala | first = Radek | title = Silesia. Unknown Czech crown lands. Princely Estates, and Silesia in the year 1740 |publisher= Veduta | place = Czech Budejovice |year=2007 |isbn=978-80-86829-23-4 |pages=121, 290, 313}}

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Category:Nobility from medieval Bohemia

Category:Piast dynasty

Category:Podiebrad family

Category:1480s births

Category:1541 deaths

Category:16th-century nobility from Bohemia

Category:16th-century women from Bohemia