Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Catherine of Saxe- Lauenburg (* 1400, † September 22, 1450 ), was mistress to Werle [- Güstrow ] and Duchess of Mecklenburg, Regent of 1422-1436.

Catherine was the daughter of Eric IV and Sophia of Brunswick- Lüneburg. She married first John VII of Werle. This already died in the year 1414. Thereby widowed, she married the Duke of Mecklenburg John IV When he died after six years of marriage in 1422, she took over the regency to 1436 in the Duchy of Mecklenburg for their minor sons.

It has long been an instrument of evidence from the July 23, 1448 as Catherine's last mention. Another called the November, when their month of death. Hans Witte was finally able to prove to the 1450 turn of the century the Mauritientag ( 22 September) as their dying day.

Children

Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
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