Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania
Sophia of Pomerania ( * 1435, † by the August 24, 1497 in Stolp ), and Sofia, was a Duchess of Pomerania from the gripping home. She was the only child reach adulthood of Prince Bogusław IX. of Pomerania - Stolp, heiress to her uncle Eric I of Pomerania - Stolp, the temporary king of Denmark ( until 1439), Norway ( until 1441 ) and Sweden ( until 1442 ), and wife of Duke Eric II of Pomerania - Wolgast.
Sophia was the daughter of the ruling in part Duchy of Pomerania - Stolp Duke Bogusław IX. and his wife Maria of Masovia. She had no brothers; her only sister Alexandra died, probably as a girl, in 1454. According to the death of her father Bogislaw IX. in 1446 followed that his cousin Erich I. Government of Pomerania - Stolp. Eric I had an eventful life behind; he had been king of the northern kingdoms, until he was down there in 1439.
Eric I had no children. He married Sophia in 1451 with her distant relatives Duke Erich II, the eldest son of the reigning in Pomerania - Wolgast Duke Wartislaw IX .. When Erich I. died in 1459, Sophia inherited his personal possessions, especially " from his better time remaining him immense treasures of gold and silver jewels and precious stones, of which even the later chronicler reported Kantzow partly from his own experience. " Her husband Eric II of Pomerania - Stolp took the land in possession.
The Sophia's relationship with her husband Eric II is known in history as not good. According to the article in the Universal German Biography (1877 ) " hurt [ them ] the husband looked through their Herrschbegier in which they as heir Eric to be the real mistress of Pomerania I. ," she had " separated from her husband on the ancestral castle to Rügenwalde in Pomerania in prohibited dealings with her tutor Hans von Massow [ lived ] in hatred against the husband 's own children negligible ". To the alleged neglect of their children is one of the legendary figure of Hans Lange, who should have stood by her son Bogislaw X in its youth.
Duchess Sophia survived her husband, who died in 1474, by more than two decades. She died in 1497 in Stolp and was buried in the local Dominican monastery.
The historian Klaus Conrad designated Duchess Sophia as "one of the more prominent women from the grip house, whose image has been obscured, however, by the slanders of her son Bogislaw X ".
Progeny
From Duchess Sophia's marriage to Duke Erich II gave the world: