John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

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John V
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John V of Saxe-Lauenburg (also numbered John IV;

Pomerania-Stolp (1410 – after 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp. He succeeded his father in 1463 as duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
.

Life

Lauenburg upon Elbe, started in 1180–1182 by Duke Bernard I.[2]

In 1481 John V redeemed Saxe-Lauenburg's

Rhenish guilders since 1407.[3] John V then made his son and heir apparent, Magnus, vice-regent of Hadeln, and finally regent as of 1498.[4]

Having advanced to regent Magnus, who in 1484 had failed to conquer the rich

Ditmarsh, the cities of Bremen, Buxtehude, Hamburg, and Stade against John V and Magnus turned the latter's campaign into an adventure involving heavy losses.[4] By early December 1499 Prince-Archbishop Johann Rode of Bremen converted Henry IV to their column so that Magnus lacked support.[7]

Mediated by Eric I of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Calenberg and Henry IV, Rode and Magnus for his father John V concluded peace on 20 January 1500.[7] Hadeln was restored to Magnus, while the Wursteners rendered homage to Rode on 18 August, thus in the end little had changed as compared with the status quo ante.[8]

Marriage and issue

On 12 February 1464 John V married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1446 – March 1519), daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, and they had the following children:

  • Adelheid (*?–died as a child*)
  • Sophia (*died latest 1497*), on 29 November 1491 ∞ Antonius of Schaumburg [de]
  • Magnus I
    (*1 January 1470 – 1 August 1543*)
  • Bernard (*? – 1524*),
    canon in Cologne and Magdeburg
  • Eric (*1472–20 October 1522*), as Eric II Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim (1501–1503) and as Eric I Münster (1508–1522)
  • Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim
    (1503–1547)
  • Anna von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1468–1504*), ∞ in 1490 John (Johannes Steitz?) of Lindow-Ruppin
  • Frederick (*?–before 1501*)
  • Rudolph (*?–1503*)
  • Henry (died as a child)
  • Catherine, Cistercian nun in Reinbek bei Hamburg
  • Elisabeth (*1489–1541*), ∞ Duke Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

One of John V's illegitimate children was:

  • Akko
    ), as of 23 March 1519.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. John IV, since he was only a co-ruling duke and died without children. So when John V is counted as IV then he is often confused with his son John IV
    , prince-bishop of Hildesheim of that name.
  2. ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5
  3. ISBN 978-3-9801919-8-2
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-3-9801919-8-2
    .
  5. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause, "Johann III., Erzbischof von Bremen", in: see references for bibliographical details, vol. 14, pp. 183–185, here p. 184.
  6. ISBN 978-3-9801919-8-2
    .
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-3-9801919-8-2
    .
  8. ISBN 978-3-9801919-8-2
    .

References
John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Born: 18 July 1439 Died: 15 August 1507
Regnal titles
Preceded by Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
1463–1507 		Succeeded by
Magnus I
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