Mathilde of Brandenburg
Margravine Mathilde von Brandenburg (* around 1210; † June 10, 1261 in Lüneburg ) was by marriage Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
Life
Mathilde was the daughter of Margrave Albrecht II of Brandenburg (1150-1220) from the Ascanian family and his wife Countess Mathilde von der Lausitz (1185-1255), daughter of Count Conrad II of Landsberg . Her father and Duke Wilhelm von Lüneburg brokered a marriage between their children in order to reunite the divided lines of Saxon rule. In 1219 Pope Honorius III. his permission to overcome the obstacles to marriage (fourth degree of relationship).
In 1228 married Mathilde in Braunschweig later Duke Otto I the child (1204 to 1252), son of the Duke William of Lüneburg and his wife Helen of Denmark . The marriage resulted in ten children, which enabled the Guelphs to pursue an extensive marriage policy .
- Mathilde († 1295/96), later Abbess of Gernrode ⚭ 1245 Count Heinrich II. The Fat of Anhalt
- Helene (1231-1273)
- ⚭ 1239 Landgrave Hermann II of Thuringia
- ⚭ 1248 Duke Albrecht I of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Otto († 1247)
- Elisabeth († 1266) ⚭ 1252 Count Wilhelm II of Holland
- Albrecht I the Great (1236-1279)
- ⚭ 1252 Elisabeth of Brabant (1243–1261), daughter of Duke Heinrich II of Brabant
- ⚭ 1266 Adelasia of Montferrat († 1285)
- Johann I. (1242–1277) ⚭ 1265 Liutgard von Holstein († after 1289)
- Otto I († 1279), Bishop of Hildesheim
- Konrad († 1300), Bishop of Verden
- Adelheid († 1274) ⚭ 1263 Landgrave Heinrich I the child of Hesse
- Agnes († after 1302) ⚭ 1263 Prince Wizlaw II of Rügen
literature
- Gudrun Pischke: Mechthild . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , Braunschweig 2006, p. 483
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| SURNAME | Mathilde of Brandenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marriage to the Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1210 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1261 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |