Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Marie of Mecklenburg, born sometime between 1363 and 1367, but probably by 1365, dead after 13 May 1402, was a duchess of Pomerania.[1] She was the daughter of Duke Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg (death 1383) and the Danish princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg (death 1370),[2] was Duchess of Pomerania.[3]
History
She married 1380, before March 23, with Duke Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania [4](fallen 1394 or 1395) and together they had one son and a daughter:
- Bogusław (born about 1382, dead 1459),[4] better known as the Kalmar Union King Eric of Pomerania; and,
- Catherine (born about 1390, dead 1426),[4] married to Count palatine John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (born about 1383, dead 1443).
Maria was also possibly the heir to her aunt, the Nordic Union Queen Margaret I of Denmark.
See also
References
- Lars Ulwencreutz Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V ISBN 978-1304581358
- Herzogin Marie zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Cawley, Charles, Denmark, Medieval Lands, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,
- (in Swedish) Albrekt-släkten Maria av Mecklenburg Henriksdotter
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