Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg

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Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571), consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. She was daughter of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Duchess Catherine of Braunschweig. Her sister Catherine was the first consort of Gustav I of Sweden.

Christian and Dorothea had the following children:

• Anna of Denmark (1532 - 1585).
• Frederick II (1534 - 1588).
• Magnus, King of Livonia (1540 - 1583).
• Johann II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon (1545-1622).
• Dorothea of Denmark (1546 - 1617). Consort to William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and mother to George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Queen Dorothea is interred next to her husband in Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen.

Source

• [Article in the Dansk biografisk Lexikon]

 

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