John VI, Duke of Mecklenburg

. John VI, Duke of Mecklenburg (* 1439, † 1474 ) was Duke of Mecklenburg.

Life

Johann was born as the second son of the Duke of Mecklenburg, Henry IV and Dorothea, daughter of the Margrave of Brandenburg Friedrich I..

His earliest documented official act ( together with his father ) was 1451st In 1464 he was apanagiert with his brother Albrecht jointly with several offices and no longer participated in the active government.

A contract dating in 1472 for the 1474 marriage to Sophie, the daughter of Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, did not come off because of his death. Johann was the last time documented on May 20, 1474th

On a trip to Franconia to his uncle, the Elector Albrecht Achilles, he got in Kulmbach the plague and was probably in St. aware monastery (probably Convent Court ) buried in the Vogtland: After this Hertzog Johans has to Meklenburg made ​​him brothers of his Fraw mother Elector Albrechten, Marckgraffen to Brandenburg to visit in Franck country; but as he arrived in the city of Kulmbach, he is there afflicted with the plague, it died in the 35th year of his age, and is afterwards to Hoff in Voigtland in S. aware monastery was buried.