Niklot I, Count of Schwerin

Niklot I, Count of Schwerin (1250–1323) was the ruling Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg from 1299 until his death. He was a son of Count Gunzelin III of Schwerin and his wife, Margaret of Mecklenburg. Niklot married twice:

• Elisabeth, the daughter of Count John I of Holstein-Kiel
• Mirosalawa, the daughter of Duke Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania

Niklot was the father of:

• Gunzelin VI (d. 1327)
• Mechtild, a nun in Szczecin
• Beatrix, a nun in Szczecin
• Kunegonde, a nun in Zarrenthin
• Agnes, a nun in Zarrenthin
• Audacia, a nun and later abbess in Zarrenthin
• Anastasia (c. 1291 – after 1316), married in 1306 to Duke Valdemar IV of Schleswig and secondly, in 1313, to Count Gerhard IV of Holstein-Plön
• Barnim
• Miroslawa (1300–1368), married in 1327 Count John III of Holstein-Plön
• Nicholas II (d. 1350)