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Duchess of Mecklenburg
Dorothea of Denmark (1528 – 11 November 1575), was a Danish princess and a Duchess consort of Mecklenburg . She was the daughter of king Frederick I of Denmark and Sophie of Pomerania . She was married to Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg-Gadebusch in 1573.
Dorothea was raised with her maternal grand parents in Pomerania as a child, but spent her adult life at the Danish royal court and with her mother in Kiel . She took part in the entourage of her niece Anne of Denmark at the latter's wedding in Saxony in 1548, but otherwise she lived a discreet life. She died two years after her marriage, and her sister Elizabeth of Denmark had a monument erected over her grave.
Ancestors of Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg 16. Christian V, Count of Oldenburg 8. Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg 17. Agnes of Hohnstein-Heringen 4. Christian I of Denmark 18. Gerhard VI, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg 9. Hedvig of Holstein 19. Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg 2. Frederick I of Denmark 20. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg 10. John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 21. Elisabeth of Bavaria 5. Dorothea of Brandenburg 22. Rudolph III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 11. Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg 23. Barbara of Legnica 1. Dorothea of Denmark 24. Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania 12. Eric II, Duke of Pomerania 25. Sophia of Saxe-Lauenburg 6. Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania 26. Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania 13. Sophie of Pomerania 27. Maria of Masovia 3. Sophie of Pomerania 28. Jogaila 14. Casimir IV Jagiellon 29. Sophia of Halshany 7. Anna Jagiellon 30. Albert II of Germany 15. Elisabeth of Austria 31. Elizabeth of Luxembourg
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