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Catherine of Mecklenburg

Field	Value
name	Catherine of Mecklenburg
image	Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of the Duchess Catherine Thielska 78.tif
caption	Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder
succession	Duchess consort of Saxony
Margravine consort of Meissen
reign	1539–1541
spouse	Henry the Pious
issue
house	House of Mecklenburg
father	Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg
mother	Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin
birth_date	1487
death_date	6 June
death_place	Torgau
place of burial	Freiberg

Margravine consort of Meissen Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487 – 6 June 1561, Torgau), was a German author, and 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.

Life

She married on 6 July 1512 in Freiberg Duke Henry the Pious of Saxony.

Catherine sympathized early with Martin Luther's teachings, while her husband suppressed the Reformation until 1536 for fear of his brother, the reigning Duke George the Bearded. Later, the Freiberg area became Lutheran.

When duke George tried bear down on Catherine, she told the envoy: You could do me a big favor by leaving Freiberg right now. In 1539, after the death of Duke George, the couple moved to Dresden and brought the Reformation there. Duke Henry died on 18 August 1541; Catherine outlived him by 20 years. She spent her days in Wolkenstein castle.

Published works

In 1560, she published a book on etiquette for ladies, which is seen as culturally and historically interesting.

Issue

She had six children with Henry the Pious:

Sibylle (1515–1592) married in 1540 Duke Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510–1581)
Emilie (1516–1591) married in 1533 Margrave George the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1534)
Sidonie (1518–1575) married in 1545 Duke Eric II of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528–1584)
Maurice (1521–1553), Elector of Saxony; married in 1541 Agnes of Hesse (1527–1555)
Severinus (1522–1533)
Augustus (1526–1586), Elector of Saxony married in 1548 Anne of Denmark and Norway (1532–1585)

Ancestry

References

Franz Otto Stichart: Gallery of the Saxon princesses. Biographical sketches of all the ancestress of the royal house of Saxony, Fleischer, Leipzig, 1857, p. 229-247 (Google Book Search).
Theodor Distel: News on the Duchess Catherine of Saxony and her people In: New archive for Saxon history (NASG), Volume 15, 1894, , p. 326 ff. (digitized).
John Meyer: Female characters and women's sway in the House of Wettin, Weller, Bautzen, 1912.
Sabine Ulbricht: princesses in the Saxon History (1382-1622), Sax, Beucha/Markham, 2010, , p. 99-125.

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