Magnus I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1345 – 1 September 1384) was
Duke of Mecklenburg
This list of dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg dates from the origins of the German princely state of Mecklenburg's royal house in the High Middle Ages to the monarchy's abolition at the end of World War I. Strictly speaking, Mecklenburg's p ...
from 1383 until his death. Magnus was the third son of Duke
Albert II of Mecklenburg and his wife
Euphemia of Sweden
Euphemia of Sweden ( Swedish: ''Eufemia Eriksdotter''; 1317 – 16 June 1370) was a Swedish princess. She was Duchess consort of Mecklenburg, heiress of Sweden and of Norway, and mother of King Albert of Sweden.
(c. 1338-1412) .
Biography
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, the sister of the King
Magnus IV of Sweden
Magnus IV (April or May 1316 – 1 December 1374; Swedish ''Magnus Eriksson'') was King of Sweden from 1319 to 1364, King of Norway as Magnus VII (including Iceland and Greenland) from 1319 to 1355, and ruler of Scania from 1332 to 1360. By ...
. Sometime after 1362, he married Elizabeth of Pomerania-Wolgast, daughter of
Barnim IV, Duke of Pomerania.
Magnus had two children:
*
John IV, Regent of Mecklenburg from 1384 to 1395 and co-regent from 1395 to 1422
* Euphemia (d. 16 October 1417);
: married on 18 October 1397 with Lord
Balthasar of Werle
After the death of his brother
Henry III in 1383, he ruled Mecklenburg jointly with Henry's son
Albert IV until his own death in 1384.
External links
Genealogical table of the House of Mecklenburg
House of Mecklenburg
Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1345 births
1384 deaths
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