Everything about Dorothea Of Brandenburg totally explained
Dorothea of Brandenburg (
1430/
1431 –
November 10,
1495) was the
consort of
Christopher of Bavaria and
Christian I of Denmark. She is also known as Dorothea of Hohenzollern and as Dorothy Achillies. She was queen of Denmark (1445-1448 and 1449-1481), Norway (1445-1448 and 1450-1481) and Sweden (1447-1448 and 1457-1464) two times each.
Biography
Dorothea was born in 1430 or 1431 to
John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg (
1405-
1465). She had two sisters: Barbara (
1423-
1481, who became the
Marchioness of Mantua, and Elisabeth (14??-
1451), who married
Joachim I Mlodszy,
Duke of Pomerania (14??-
1451).
She married, on
12 September 1445,
Christopher of Bavaria, the King of
Denmark from
1440-1448,
Sweden from
1441-1448 and
Norway from
1442-1448. The wedding was held in
Copenhagen. She was crowned queen of the three kingdoms on
14 September 1445.
After Christopher's death, Dorothea married the next elected king,
King Christian I of Denmark, on
28 October 1449. In 1457, she became queen of Sweden for the second time and was crowned in
Uppsala Cathedral.
Dorothea was given very large estates in Sweden at her first wedding, which she lost control over in
1464. For the rest of her life, she fought to regain control over them, and also asked for the help of the
Pope. She was given
Holstein as her fief, and in
1481, she made her youngest son Frederik regent there. In
1488 she visited the Pope in
Rome. She is described as economical and energetic and she's believed to have exerted political influence.
Children
Dorothea died on
25 November 1495, and is interred next to her second husband in
Roskilde Cathedral.
Sources
Herman Lindqvist, "Historien om Sverige" (In Swedish)
Åke Ohlmarks "Alla Sveriges drottningar" (In Swedish) Further Information
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