Dorothea Of Brandenburg, Duchess Of Saxe-Lauenburg
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Dorothea of Brandenburg (1446 – March 1519) was a princess of
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by birth and by marriage Duchess of
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Life

Dorothea was the eldest child of Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg (1413–1471) from his marriage to
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(1421–1476), daughter of Elector
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of Saxony. She married on 12 February 1464 in
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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
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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, 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 (1406 – 1464) to compare himself with the Elector Frederick.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 *
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(1508–1522) * Catherine, Cistercian nun in Reinbek bei Hamburg * Bernhard (died 1524),
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(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)


References

* Hermann von Ohnesorge: ''Geschichte des Entwicklungsganges der Brandenburg-Preußischen Monarchie'', J.C. Hinrichs, 1841, p. 219


Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dorothea Of Brandenburg, Duchess Of Saxe-Lauenburg People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg House of Hohenzollern 1446 births 1519 deaths Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg Daughters of prince-electors Mothers of Saxon monarchs