Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Sophie, Princess of Pomerania ( * 1460, † April 26, 1504 in Wismar ), Duchess of Mecklenburg 1478-1504.

She was the daughter of the Duke Eric II of Pomerania - Wolgast († 1474 ) and his wife Sophia ( † 1497 ).

Her brother was Bogislaw X (1454-1523), who ruled for almost fifty years as a unified territory of the country. Pomerania experienced under Bogislaw X. rule heyday: Stettin was in 1491 raised to the residence, created a ducal administration with firm introduced an ordered collection of taxes and complied with the public peace. The Duchy of Mecklenburg was located for political reasons much of a connection with the Pomeranian house.

Sophie of Pomerania was the fiancée of Johann V., the brother of her later husband Magnus II of Mecklenburg. After John's death Sophie entered a monastery, and thus took a vow of eternal chastity. But Magnus II was very interested in securing the border with Pomerania and therefore to a marriage with Sophie. He asked in vain several clergymen for advice on how the vows to be annulled. So he married on May 29, 1478 Sophie against the ecclesiastical laws. But instead of being sentenced, he received in 1487 from the " Pope the golden virtue Rose, the highest ecclesiastical honors ." On April 3, 1486 Sophie finally received from her vows dispensation, but this was accompanied by the obligation to equip three annual arms with white woolen clothes in memory of the Virgin Mary.

Much like her daughter, who afterwards became Countess Anna of Hesse, over two decades later, Sophie went their own ways in terms of their burial place. Itself had all their relatives to be buried Mecklenburg including her husband in the Doberan Minster, she chose the Dominican monastery in Wismar as the last resting-place. Sophie's funeral was the first of the ducal house in Wismar and - apart from her sister Margaret, the widow Balthazar, on 27 March 1526 - also the last.

The grave slab of bronze with the life-size image of resting on a pomegranate ceiling Duchess covered initially by 1880 their tomb on the main altar of the church of the Dominican monastery, then came to St. Mary's Church and has been their destruction in one of the northern side chapels of St. Nicholas Church.