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Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487 – 6 June 1561, Torgau ), was a Duchess of Saxony by marriage to Henry IV, Duke of Saxony. She was the daughter of the Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg and Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin .
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The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony ( German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen or Kursachsen ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. Its territory included the areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles IV designated the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg an ...
Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (German: Heinrich der Fromme) (16 March 1473, in Dresden – 18 August 1541, in Dresden) was a Duke of Saxony from the House of Wettin. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry IV, Duke of Saxony has received more than 103,309 page views. His biography is available in 26 ...
In 953–954 Henry, temporarily deserted by his Bavarian subjects, brutally suppressed a revolt by Otto's son, Duke Liudolf of Swabia and Duke Conrad of Lorraine . While his brother gained a victory over the Hungarians in the Battle of Lechfeld, Henry fell ill in 955 and died on 1 November in Pöhlde Abbey. His son and heir was Henry II, Duke ...
Christian succeeded to the electorship of Saxony and as a result of his youth, his cousin, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar, and maternal grandfather, Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg, assumed the regency of the electorate.
Henry V of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( Latin: Henricus; 10 November 1489 – 11 June 1568), called the Younger, ( Heinrich der Jüngere ), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1514 until his death. The last Catholic of the Welf princes, he was known for the large number ...
