Dorothea of Brandenburg (1446 – March 1519) was a princess of
Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of
Saxe-Lauenburg.
Life
Dorothea was the eldest child of Elector
Frederick II of Brandenburg (1413–1471) from his marriage to
Catherine (1421–1476), daughter of Elector
Frederick I of Saxony.
She married on 12 February 1464 in
Lüneburg Duke
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of Saxe-Lauenburg (1439–1507). As she was oldest daughter of the Elector Frederick, who had no surviving sons, the marriage agreement was important. In addition to a
florins dowry, Frederick promised his son-in-law everything that he could legally leave to his daughter. Later, however, Frederick abdicated in favour of his younger brother
Albert Achilles
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, so as to keep his possessions in the family.
Frederick also failed to pay the dowry to his son-in-law. This led Dorothea's uncle
John the Alchemist to compare himself with the Elector Frederick in 1482.
[Adolph Friedrich Riedel: ''Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Sammlung der Urkunden, Chroniken und sonstigen Quellenschriften für die Geschichte der Mark Brandenburg und ihrer Regenten'', vol. 6, F. H. Morin, 1865, p. 121]
Offspring
From her marriage with John of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, as he was officially titled, Dorothea had the following children:
* Adelheid (died young)
* Sophia (died in or before 1497)
: married on 29 November 1491
Anthony of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg (1439 – 22 December 1526)
*
Magnus I (1470–1543), Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
*
Eric (1472–1522), as Eric I
prince-bishop of Hildesheim (1501–1503) and as Eric II
prince-bishop of Münster (1508–1522)
* Catherine,
Cistercian nun in
Reinbek bei Hamburg
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* Bernhard (died 1524),
canon at
Cologne Cathedral and
Magdeburg Cathedral
*
John (1483–1547), as John IV
Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim (1503–1547)
* Rudolph (died 1503)
* Elisabeth (died circa 1542)
: married Duke
Henry IV of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1460–1526)
* Henry (died young)
* Frederick (died before 1501)
* Anna (died 1504)
: married firstly in 1490 Count John of Lindau-Ruppin (died 1500)
: married secondly, in about 1503, Count Frederick Spiegelberg (died 1537)
Ancestors
References
* Hermann von Ohnesorge: ''Geschichte des Entwicklungsganges der Brandenburg-Preußischen Monarchie'', J.C. Hinrichs, 1841, p. 219
Footnotes
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People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg
House of Hohenzollern
1446 births
1519 deaths
Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg
Daughters of monarchs