Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Family and children

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt (Oder) he was married to Sophia of Poland (6 April 1464 – 5 October 1512), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland. They had seventeen children:

1. Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth (27 September 1481, Ansbach – 21 September 1527, Buda).
2. Elisabeth, died young.
3. Margarete (10 January 1483, Ansbach – 10 July 1532).
4. Georg "der Fromme" (4 March 1484, Ansbach – 27 December 1543, Ansbach).
5. Sofie (10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica.
6. Anna (5 May 1487, Ansbach – 7 February 1539), married on 1 December 1518 to Duke Wenceslaus II of Cieszyn.
7. Barbara, died young.
8. Albert of Prussia (17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1511 to 1525 and first Duke of Prussia from 1525.
9. Frederick (13 June 1491, Ansbach – ca. 1497).
10. Johann, Viceroy of Valencia (9 January 1493, Plassenburg – 5 July 1525, Valencia).
11. Elisabeth (25 March 1494, Ansbach – 31 May 1518, Pforzheim), married in Pforzheim on 29 September 1510 to Margrave Ernest of Baden-Durlach.
12. Barbara (24 September 1495, Ansbach – 23 September 1552), married in Plassenburg on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.
13. Frederick (17 January 1497, Ansbach – 20 August 1536, Genoa), a canon in Würzburg and Salzburg.
14. Wilhelm, (30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.
15. John Albert (20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.
16. Frederick Albert, died young.
17. Gumprecht (16 July 1503, Ansbach – 25 June 1528, Naples), a canon in Bamberg.

Ancestry