Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a member of the House of Welf, a princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and by marriage, the Electress of Saxony.
Catherine and her husband Frederick I.
Frederick I, the Belligerent or the Warlike, a member of the House of Wettin, ruled as Margrave of Meissen from 1407 and as Elector of Saxony from 1423 until his death. He secured the Saxon electorshi
Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
…from his first marriage to Sophie († June 1400), daughter of Duke Wartislaw VI of Pomerania. As a 7-year-old she married on 7 February 1402 Margrave Frederick IV "the Warlike" of Meissen (1370–1428), who in 1425 became the first Elector of Saxony, as Frederick I. The elector lost a large part of his army in the Hussite Wars in 1421 in…
Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Frederick the Warlike (left) with Ernest and Frederick II, Fürstenzug, Dresden
Tomb of Frederick I, Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral
Portal to the Princes Chapel, Meissen Cathedral