Dorothea of Brandenburg (1420-1491)
Dorothea von Brandenburg (born February 9, 1420 in Berlin ; † January 19, 1491 in the Rehna Monastery ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg .
Life
Dorothea was a daughter of Elector Friedrich I of Brandenburg (1371–1440) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1383–1442), daughter of Duke Friedrich of Bavaria-Landshut . Dorothea's brothers were the successive ruling Friedrich II and Albrecht Achilles , Elector of Brandenburg.
She married Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg (1417–1477) in May 1432 . Dorothea Dömitz and Gorlosen received as dowry , which her sister Margarete had already received when she married Albrecht V von Mecklenburg in 1423, but who died shortly after the marriage. In the dispute between Brandenburg and Mecklenburg over the inheritance of the principality of Wenden , the family ties between Duke Heinrich and Elector Friedrich contributed to a comparison.
After Dorothea became a widow in 1477, she lived as a nun in Rehna Monastery from 1485 . She was buried in the town church of St. Jakob and St. Dionysius in Gadebusch. Her grave stone is provided with a scratched drawing of the Duchess, who shows her in nun's costume crowned with a canopy.
progeny
Dorothea had the following children from their marriage:
- Albrecht VI. (1438–1483), Duke of Mecklenburg
- ⚭ 1466/68 Countess Katharina von Lindau-Ruppin († 1485)
- Johann VI. (1439–1474), Duke of Mecklenburg
- Magnus II (1441–1503), Duke of Mecklenburg
- ⚭ 1478 Princess Sophie of Pomerania (1460–1504)
- Catherine (1442–1451 / 52)
- Anna (1447–1464)
- Elisabeth (1449–1506), Abbess of Ribnitz
- Balthasar (1451–1507), Duke of Mecklenburg, coadjutor in the Schwerin diocese until 1479
literature
- Carl Friedrich Goeschel: Elisabeth, the first Electress of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern , Mittler, 1844, p. 35
- Samuel Buchholtz: Attempt a history of the Churmarck Brandenburg , FW Birnstiel, 1767, p. 39
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Ernst Hahn: Elector Friedrich the First of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the Prussian royal house , Hertz, 1859, p. 210
- ↑ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/MECKLENBURG.htm
- ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, p. 473 ISBN 3-910179-06-1 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorothea of Brandenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1420 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1491 |
| Place of death | Rehna Monastery |