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4 unusual facts about Richardis of Schwerin


Richardis of Schwerin

Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig (d. bef. 1386), wife of Valdemar III of Denmark (Valdemar V, Duke of Schleswig) and daughter of Günzelin VI, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.

Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden (ca. 1344–1377), wife of Albert of Sweden and daughter of Otto I, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.

Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig

This is the last time she is mentioned; in 1386, her nephew Otto VI, Count of Tecklenburg gave permission to her nephew Eric of Saxony to claim Otto's inhertience after Richardis in his name.

Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden

She died in Stockholm and was buried in the Cloister Church at the Black Friars' Monastery.


Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

He was born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk in Rathmannsdorf, Anhalt, Germany to a father from an old noble family of Anhalt and a mother who was a daughter and heiress of a Count (Graf) von Schwerin, a member of the same family as Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden.

Richardis Catherine of Mecklenburg

She was the daughter of Albert of Mecklenburg, King of Sweden and Duke of Mecklenburg, and Richardis of Schwerin.


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