Albert of Mecklenburg or Albrekt av Mecklenburg (appr. 1336-1412), King of Sweden in 1364, Duke of Mecklenburg in 1383, son of Duke Albert II of Mecklenburg and Eufemia Eriksdotter, the sister to Magnus III of Sweden.
His reign in Sweden spanned from 1363 to 1389. He was deposed by Margaret, daughter of Valdemar IV Denmark, Queen Dowager of Norway, widow of Hakon VI and daughter in law of Magnus III of Sweden and VII of Norway, who became Regent of all three Kingdoms.
The roots of the Mecklenburg people are truly multiethnic and in the course of history they have done much to preserve this status.
In Sweden, Albert von Mecklenburg (1338-1412) wrote a chapter in royal history when he was king for twenty-six years.
Somewhat longer was the chapter begun by king Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden when he landed in Mecklenburg in 1630, in the middle of the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War.
Mecklenburg being obliged to recognize Danish supremacy in the reign of Henry Burwy I (1178-1227).
Albert II (died 1379) and John I (died 1392), were made dukes and princes of the empire by the Emperor Charles IV.
Mecklenburg of priests not natives of the country; these measures were so strictly enforced that the private chaplain of Herr von der Kettenburg was taken over the boundary by gendarmes.
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