Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg Doberan Minster. Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg, sometimes called "Philip I" (12 September 1514 - 4 January 1557) was a Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was the youngest son of Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Helen of the Palatinate, a daughter of Philip, Elector Palatine. As a result of an injury at a tournament he was mentally ill for many years. After Henry V's death in 1552, he lived at the court of Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg in Güstrow, where he died. Whether he ruled actively is questionable in the light of his disability. He was buried
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex. Some years later, Arthur came into the direct line of succession to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany, upon the death in 1899 of his nephew, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, the only son of his elder brother, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. He decided, however, to renounce his own and his son's succession rights to the duchy, which then passed to his other nephew, Prince Charles Edward, the posthumous son of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. At St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, on 13 March 1879, Arthur married