Albert IV, Duke of Mecklenburg

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| name = Albert IV

| succession = Duke of Mecklenburg

| reign = 1383–1388

| predecessor = Henry III

| regent =

| reg-type1 = Co-Sovereign

| successor = Albert III & John IV

| spouse = Elisabeth of Holstein

| issue =

| house = House of Mecklenburg

| father = Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg

| mother = Ingeborg of Denmark

| birth_date = before 1363

| birth_place =

| death_date = between 24 and 31 December 1388

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Albert IV ({{langx|de|Albrecht IV von Mecklenburg}}; before 1363 - 24/31 December 1388) was Duke of Mecklenburg from 1383 to 1388.

Life

He was the son of the Duke Henry III of Mecklenburg and Ingeborg of Denmark.

Albert was also a claimant to the Danish throneNordman, Viljo Adolf in Albrecht Herzog von Mecklenburg König von Schweden, Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia B:44:1, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1939 p. 334. after the death of King Valdemar IV, but Olaf II succeeded instead.[https://books.google.com/books?id=52nTAAAAMAAJ&pg Margaret of Denmark By Mary Hill. Page 52-55]

After his father Henry died in 1383, Albert ruled Mecklenburg jointly with his uncles Albert III and Magnus I and his cousin John IV.

He was married to Elisabeth of Holstein, the daughter of Nicholas, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg and died in December 1388. In 1404 his widow Elisabeth married Duke Eric V of Saxe-Lauenburg.

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