Background
Born in Franzburg, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania-Barth by his first wife, Clara of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Born in Franzburg, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania-Barth by his first wife, Clara of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
In Barth on 7 October 1593, Clara Maria married firstly Sigismund August, youngest son of John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Because of his reported "weaked mind", he was effectively desinherited by his father"s will and awarded with a pension of 6,000 florins, although he received the rights to live in the towns of Strelitz, Mirow and Ivenack but without real government over them. In Strelitz on 13 December 1607, Clara Maria married secondly Augustus the Younger, Lord of Hitzacker, son of Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg.
They had two children:
Stillborn daughter (Scharnebeck, 17 April 1609).
Stillborn son (Hitzacker, 10 May 1610). Clara Maria died in Hitzacker aged 48 without surviving issue.
She was buried in the Stadtkirche, Dannenberg.