Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst

Magdalena Augusta (13 October 1679 – 11 October 1740) was a Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and grandmother of George III of the United Kingdom.

She was born as a Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst. Her father was Karl of Anhalt-Zerbst and her mother was Duchess Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Family

In 1696 Magdalena Augusta married Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who had become Duke in 1691.
They had nineteen children:

• Sophie (1697–1703)
• Frederick (1699–1772), the next Duke.
• Wilhelm (1701–1771)
• Karl Friedrich (1702–1703)
• Johann August (1704–1767)
• Christian (1705)
• Christian Wilhelm (1706–1748)
• Ludwig Ernst (1707–1763)
• Emanuel (1709–1710)
• Moritz (1711–1777)
• Sophie (1712)
• Karl (1714–1715)
• Friederike (1715–1775)
• Magdalen Sybille (1718)
• Augusta (1719–1772), she married Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Johann Adolf (1721–1799)

Ancestry