Sophie of Pomerania

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Sophie of Pomerania (1498 – 1568) was Queen of Denmark and Norway.

She was the daughter of Duke Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast and Anna Jagiello of Poland (a daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon and Elisabeth of Austria).

After the death of his first wife Anna of Brandenburg in 1514, she married King Frederick I of Denmark. They had six children:

1. Duke John of Holstein (28 June 1521 – 2 October 1580)
2. Elisabeth (14 October 1524 – 15 October 1586), married:
   1. on 26 August 1543 to Duke Magnus of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
   2. on 14 February 1556 to Duke Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
3. Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (25 January 1526 – 1 October 1586)
4. Anna (1527 – 4 June 1535)
5. Dorothea (1528 – 11 November 1575), married on 27 October 1573 to Duke Christof of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
6. Bishop Friedrich of Hildesheim and Schleswig (13 April 1532 – 27 October 1556).

[edit] See also

• House of Pomerania

[edit] Genetics

As a matrilineal relative of Barbara of Celje and ultimately of Nicholas II of Russia, she and all her female-line descendants are members of mitochondrial haplogroup T.

Preceded by Isabella of Burgundy	Queen Consort of Denmark 1523-1533	Succeeded by Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
	Queen Consort of Norway 1523-1533