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)