Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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For other people with the same name, see Catherine of Brunswick.

Electress consort of Saxony

Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine and her husband Frederick I.

Electress consort of Saxony
Tenure| 6 January 1423 – 4 January 1428

Born| c. 1395
Died| 28 December 1441 (aged 45-46)
Grimma
Burial|

Cathedral Chapel in Meissen

Spouse| Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
Issue| Frederick II, Elector of Saxony
William III, Duke of Luxembourg
House| House of Welf
Father| Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Mother| Sophie of Pomerania

Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1395 - 28 December 1442, Grimma) was a member of the House of Welf, a princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and by marriage, the Electress of Saxony.

## Life

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Catherine was the only daughter and second child of the Duke Henry I of Brunswick-Lüneburg († 1416) from his first marriage to Sophie († June 1400), daughter of Duke Wartislaw VI of Pomerania.

As a 7-year-old she married on 7 February 1402 Margrave Frederick IV "the Warlike" of Meissen (1370–1428),[1] who in 1425 became the first Elector of Saxony, as Frederick I. The elector lost a large part of his army in the Hussite Wars in 1421 in the Battle of Brüx. During Frederick's absence, Electress Catherine organized another army of 20,000 men, which rushed to Frederick's aid, but was defeated devastatingly in the Battle of Aussig in 1426.

Catherine spent time with her husband, but more frequently alone, at Mildenstein Castle in Leisnig, which thereby developed into a private residence of the Saxon Electors.

She is buried in the Princely Chapel in Meissen Cathedral.

## Offspring

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From her marriage Catherine had the following children:

1. Catherine, died young;
2. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412 - 1464);
3. Sigismund, Bishop of Würzburg, (3 March 1416 - 24 December 1471);
4. Anna, (5 June 1420 - 17 September 1462), married to Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse;
5. Catherine, (1421 - 23 August 1476, Berlin), married to Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg;
6. Henry, (21 May 1422 - 22 July 1435);
7. William III, Duke of Luxemburg (1425 - 1482), Landgrave of Thuringia, Duke of Luxemburg; married
1. in 1446, Anne of Austria (1432–1462)
2. in 1463, Catherine of Brandenstein († 1492)

## References

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1. ^ Opitz, Gottfried (1961), "Friedrich I.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 567; (full text online)

* Jens Kunze, The Leisnig district in the 15th Century, p. 191
* General German Real-Encyclopaedia for the educated classes, Volume 5 by FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, p. 633

Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

House of Welf

Born: circa 1395 Died: 28 December 1442

Royal titles
Preceded by

Euphemia of Silesia

|  Electress consort of Saxony
1423–1428  | Succeeded by

Margaret of Austria

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Electresses of Saxony

* Elisabeth of Hesse (1356–1370)
* Cecilia of Carrara (1376–1388)
* Anna of Thuringia (1388–1395)
* Barbara of Legnica (1396–1419)
* Euphemia of Oleśnica (1420–1422)
* Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1423–1428)
* Margaret of Austria (1431–1464)
* Elisabeth of Bavaria-Munich (1464–1486)
* Sibylle of Cleves (1532–1547)
* Agnes of Hesse (1547–1553)
* Princess Anna of Denmark (1553–1585)
* Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt-Dessau (1586)
* Sophie of Brandenburg (1586–1591)
* Princess Hedwig of Denmark (1602–1611)
* Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1611–1656)
* Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1656–1680)
* Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1680–1691)
* Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach (1694–1694)
* Margravine Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1694–1727)
* Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1733–1757)
* Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1763)
* Countess Palatine Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1769–1806)

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