Catherine of Saxony (1421–1476)

Catherine of Saxony (* 1421 ; † 23 August 1476 in Berlin ) was a princess of Saxony and was elector of Brandenburg by marriage .

Life

Katharina was a daughter of Elector Friedrich I of Saxony (1370–1428) from his marriage to Katharina (1395–1442), daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig .

Katharina married Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg (1413–1471) in Wittenberg on June 11, 1441 . Friedrich had previously advertised Katharina in vain. The marriage vow was ultimately part of a contract that settled the armed conflict in Lusatia between Brandenburg and Saxony and sealed an alliance between the two states. However, the marriage turned out to be unhappy. Friedrich had numerous affairs, his son Erasmus was born out of wedlock.

The couple spent the last years of their marriage completely apart; while Friedrich lived in Franconia, Katharina stayed in the Mark.

progeny

She had three children with Friedrich:

• Dorothea (1446–1519), ⚭ 1464 Duke Johann IV of Saxony-Lauenburg (1439–1507)
• Margarete (1449 / 50–1489), ⚭ 1477 Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania (1454–1523)
• Johann (around 1452–1454)

literature

• Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : Elector Friedrich II and his brothers, Duke Sigismund and Duke Wilhelm of Saxony, or the history of Saxony from 1428-1440. Invitation to celebrate Wilhelm's Day, October 30, 1827. Carl Schlotter, Jena 1827, p. 68 .
• Andreas Tacke: We want to give space to love. Cohabiting religious and secular princes around 1500. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0052-0 , p. 19 .