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Dorothea of Brandenburg

1430 - 1495

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Dorothea of Brandenburg (31 December 1430 – 10 November 1495) was Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the Kalmar Union as the consort of first King Christopher III of Denmark and later King Christian I of Denmark. She served as interim regent during the interregnum in 1448 and as regent in the absence of her second spouse during his reign. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea of Brandenburg has received more than 189,309 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Dorothea of Brandenburg is the 261st most popular companion (down from 243rd in 2019), the 944th most popular biography from Germany (down from 911th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Companion.

Dorothea of Brandenburg was a German princess and a member of the House of Hohenzollern. She was married to John George I, Elector of Saxony.

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Among companions, Dorothea of Brandenburg ranks 261 out of 784. Before her are Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Adelaide of Aquitaine, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Anne of Bohemia, Christina of Saxony, and Agnes of Antioch. After her are Anna Porphyrogenita, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Linda McCartney, Louise of Great Britain, Imelda Marcos, and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1430, Dorothea of Brandenburg ranks 7. Before her are Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Margaret of Anjou, Carlo Crivelli, James II of Scotland, and Cosimo Tura. After her are Heinrich Kramer, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, Justus van Gent, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Francesco Laurana, and Antoine Busnois. Among people deceased in 1495, Dorothea of Brandenburg ranks 7. Before her are Seongjong of Joseon, John II of Portugal, Sultan Cem, Alfonso II of Naples, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and Cosimo Tura. After her are Francis, Count of Vendôme, Jacob Sprenger, Vlad Călugărul, Magdalena of France, Elizabeth Tudor, and Jasper Tudor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothea of Brandenburg ranks 944 out of 7,253. Before her are Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Christina of Saxony (1461), Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412), and Karl Rahner (1904). After her are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778), Horst Buchholz (1933), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Michael Ballack (1976), and Robert Aumann (1930).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Dorothea of Brandenburg ranks 43. Before her are Frederica of Baden (1781), Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831), Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (1788), and Christina of Saxony (1461). After her are Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1754), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227).

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