Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( * 1395, † December 28 1442 in Grimsby ) from the Guelph dynasty was a princess of Brunswick- Lüneburg and by marriage first Electress of Saxony.

Life

Catherine was the only daughter and the second child of Duke Henry I of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( † 1416 ) from his first marriage with Sophie ( † 1400/ 06), daughter of the Duke Wartislaw VI. of Pomerania.

As a 7 -year-old she married on May 8, 1402 Margrave Frederick IV of Meissen ( 1370-1428 ), who in 1425 as Frederick I, the Warlike first Elector of Saxony. The elector lost in the Hussite Wars in 1425 Brüx a large part of his army. Electress Catherine organized, while Frederick's absence in the home, the establishment of another army of 20,000 men, which came to the rescue and in 1426 but defeated in Usti nad Labem in the battle was.

Catherine spoke with her ​​husband, but more often alone, longer time on Mildenstein Castle in Leisnig on which thereby became more and more a secondary residence of the Electors of Saxony.

Progeny

From her marriage to Katharina Friedrich had the following children:

  • Frederick II (1412-1464), Elector of Saxony
  • Sigismund (1416-1471), Bishop of Würzburg
  • Anna (1420-1462)
  • Catherine (1421-1476)
  • Heinrich (1422-1435)
  • William III. (1425-1482), Landgrave of Thuringia, Duke of Luxembourg
Grimma Wartislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania Frederick I, Elector of Saxony Most Battle of Aussig Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse
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