Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Elizabeth of Denmark and Norway ( * October 14, 1524, † October 15, 1586 in Gedser ) was a Danish princess and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg -Schwerin in succession and Mecklenburg- Güstrow.

Life

Elisabeth was the second child and eldest daughter of the ( second for him) marriage of King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway with Sophia of Pomerania ( † 1568).

After her father's death in 1533, it grew at the court of his heir, her half-brother, King Christian III. on. In 1542 it was with Duke Magnus III. betrothed of Mecklenburg; their wedding took place in Kiel Castle on 26 August 1543. The marriage remained childless, and after the death of Magnus in 1550 Elizabeth returned to Denmark.

In 1556 she married her second husband, Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg, who was his cousin Magnus followed as administrator of the pin Schwerin. The couple had one daughter, Sophie, who was by marriage with her cousin Frederick II of Denmark at the age of 14 years, Queen of Denmark and Norway.

Elisabeth became involved socially and built almshouses in Grabow, Stargard, Biitzow, Güstrow and Stavenhagen. In Everstorfer forest at Plüschow ( 1559 ) and in the Heidbergen she let the forest grow. In the religious sphere, they promoted the renewal of Guestrower Cathedral (1565-1568) and the Doberan Minster. Together with Ulrich she taught in 1575 in the monastery Rühn a school for noble daughters a.

She died on a trip to her daughter in Gedser and was buried in the Cathedral Guestrower.

At Elizabeth reminds her coat of arms in the gate of the castle Güstrow, the altar in Rühn, which shows them as benefactor, as well as the monumental tomb wall in Guestrower Cathedral, Ulrich, his second wife Anna of Pomerania, and had himself put it by Philipp Brandin.