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House. House of Ascania. Father. Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. Mother. Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571) was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark. She was known to having wielded influence upon the affairs of state in Denmark. [1]
Life. She was the daughter of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and sister of Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, the first queen of King Gustav I of Sweden. Dorothea was raised in one of the first states in Germany where the reformation was proclaimed, and was affected from Lutheranism early in life.
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511–1571)Queen of Norway and Denmark. Name variations: Lüneburg or Luneburg. Born on July 9, 1511; died on October 7, 1571, in Sonderburg; daughter of Magnus, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1488–1563); married Christian III (1503–1559), king of Norway and Denmark (r.
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Apr 26, 2022 · Dorothea (Sachsen-Lauenburg) af Danmark is a member of aristocracy in Europe. Join: European Royals and Aristocrats 1500-Present Project Discuss: EUROARISTO Biography Dorothea was the eldest daughter of Magnus I, Herzog (Duke) von Sachsen-Lauenburg of the Askanier (Ascanian) dynasty and his wife Katharina von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, and was born on 9 July 1511.
Life. Dorothea was the eldest child of Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg (1413–1471) from his marriage to Catherine (1421–1476), daughter of Elector Frederick I of Saxony. She married on 12 February 1464 in Lüneburg Duke John V of Saxe-Lauenburg (1439–1507). As she was oldest daughter of the Elector Frederick, who had no surviving sons ...
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- Catherine of Saxony
- Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg
- John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (also counted IV)
Saxe-Lauenburg c. 1400 (green), including the tracts south of the Elbe and the Amt Neuhaus, but without Hadeln out of the map downstream the Elbe. The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries; Danish: Hertugdømmet Sachsen-Lauenborg), was a reichsfrei duchy that existed from 1296 to 1803 and again from ...
When Dorothea von Sachsen Lauenburg was born on 9 July 1511, in Lauenburg an der Elbe, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, her father, Herzog Magnus I von Sachsen-Lauenburg, was 41 and her mother, Katherine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, was 24. She married King Christian III von Oldenburg King of Denmark on 29 October 1525, in ...
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