caption father reign predecessor succession successor house mother death_date religion image_size birth_date spouse issue image article_title name type
woodcut john v by lucas cranach the elder : coat-of-arms of bernard ii 1439 & ndash ; 1507 bernard ii duke of saxe-lauenburg magnus i house of ascania adelheid of pomerania-stolp 15 august 1507 roman catholic 240px 18 july 1439 dorothea of brandenburg magnus hildesheim i eric ii/i john iv , prince-bishop of coat saxe-lauenburg . jpg of arms of john v , duke of john v , duke of saxe-lauenburg
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john v , duke of saxe-lauenburg

john v of saxe-lauenburg -lrb- also numbered john iv ; 18 july 1439 -- 15 august 1507 -rrb- was the eldest son of duke bernard ii of saxe-lauenburg and adelheid of pomerania-stolp -lrb- * 1410 -- after 1445 * -rrb- , daughter of duke bogislaus viii of pomerania-stolp .
he succeeded his father in 1463 as duke of saxe-lauenburg .
