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Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine
1520Nov, 10

Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine

Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Princess of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1580)
Dorothea of Denmark and Norway (10 November 1520 – 31 May 1580) was a Danish, Norwegian and Swedish princess and an electress of the Palatinate as the wife of Elector Frederick II of the Palatinate. She was a claimant to the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish thrones and titular monarch in 1559–1561.

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