Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden (ca. 1344–1377), wife of Albert of Sweden and daughter of Otto I, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.
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He was born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk in Rathmannsdorf, Anhalt, Germany to a father from an old noble family of Anhalt and a mother who was a daughter and heiress of a Count (Graf) von Schwerin, a member of the same family as Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden.
She was the daughter of Albert of Mecklenburg, King of Sweden and Duke of Mecklenburg, and Richardis of Schwerin.
Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig (d. bef. 1386), wife of Valdemar III of Denmark (Valdemar V, Duke of Schleswig) and daughter of Günzelin VI, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.
This is the last time she is mentioned; in 1386, her nephew Otto VI, Count of Tecklenburg gave permission to her nephew Eric of Saxony to claim Otto's inhertience after Richardis in his name.
She died in Stockholm and was buried in the Cloister Church at the Black Friars' Monastery.
His decades-long service as personal physician and confidante to the Queen of Sweden is mentioned only in the most oblique terms; at one point, while naming her only as "she who must be mother to a whole nation", he mentions that she regularly brings flowers for the grave of one of her dogs buried at Villa San Michele, at another point, one of his servants is out walking his dogs, and encounters the Queen, who mentions having given the dog to Munthe.