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Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Field	Value
name	Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg
father	Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
mother	Sophia von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
house	House of Ascania
spouse	John VII of Werle
John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
issue	Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
John V, Duke of Mecklenburg
birth_date	circa 1400
death_date	22 September 1450

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the Duchess of Mecklenburg

John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg John V, Duke of Mecklenburg Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (22 September 1450) was a Baroness consort of Werle-Güstrow, a Duchess consort of Mecklenburg, and Regent of the Duchy of Mecklenburg from 1422 to 1436 as the guardian of her under age sons.

Life

Catherine was the daughter of Eric IV and Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She married firstly, John VII of Werle. He died in 1414. She then married the Duke John IV of Mecklenburg in 1416. When John died in 1422, after six years of marriage, she ruled until 1436 as Regent for her minor sons.

For a long time, a charter date July 1448 was the last known document to name Catherine. Then a charter surfaced which suggested she died in November. Around the turn of the Century, Hans Witte could finally prove she died on St. Maurice day (22 September) 1450.

Issue

From her marriage with John, Catherine had two sons:

Henry IV the Fat, Duke of Mecklenburg (1417 to 1477)
John V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1418–1442)

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