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
| death_place =
| burial_date =
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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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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120208091810/http://portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de/pub/lbmv/mjb/jb050/350367779.html Genealogical table of the House of Mecklenburg]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110120120430/http://www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/mittelalter/koenige/schweden/albrecht_von_mecklenburg_1412.html www.mittelalter-genealogie.de]
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