Agnes of Brandenburg (1584–1629)
Agnes von Brandenburg (born July 17, 1584 in Berlin , † March 26, 1629 in Neuhaus Castle on the Elbe ) was a princess of Brandenburg and successively Duchess of Pomerania and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg through marriage .
Life
Agnes, from the house of Hohenzollern , was a daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg (1525–1598) from his third marriage to Elisabeth von Anhalt (1563–1607), daughter of Prince Joachim Ernst of Anhalt .
She married Duke Philipp Julius von Pommern-Wolgast (1584-1625) in Berlin on June 25, 1604 . The marriage remained childless. The main residence of the duke couple was the Wolgast residential palace . A new farm in Udars on the island of Rügen was named Agnisenhof after her. In 1615, at the request of her husband, Agnes helped finance the Franzburg mint .
After the death of Philipp Julius, Agnes lived on her guaranteed treasure , the Barth office . Dubslaff Christoph von Eickstedt auf Rothenklempenow , former councilor of her husband, served as her Privy Councilor and Captain zu Barth . At Barth Castle, Agnes married for the second time on September 9, 1628, with Duke Franz Karl von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1594–1660), who served as a general in the imperial service. With her marriage she lost her claim to Barth, but her new, ten years younger husband had Wallenstein force Duke Bogislaw XIV to leave the Wittum to Agnes until her death.
Both of Agnes' marriages had remained childless.
literature
- Samuel Buchholtz : Attempt at a history of the Churmark Brandenburg , 1767, p. 490 ( digitized )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Krüger : Between the Empire and Sweden: the sovereign coinage in the Duchy of Pomerania and in Swedish Pomerania in the early modern period (approx. 1580-1715) , LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006, p. 120 f.
- ↑ Julius von Bohlen: The acquisition of Pomerania by the Hohenzollern: in memory of the reunification of the whole of Pomerania under the rule of its illustrious royal family 50 years ago , Decker, 1865, p. 56
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of Rügen and Pomerania , Volume 4, Perthes, 1845, p. 510
- ^ Johann Samuel Publication: Volume 48 of General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order , J. f. Gleditsch, 1848, p. 95
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| SURNAME | Agnes of Brandenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess of Pomerania; Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1584 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1629 |
| Place of death | Neuhaus Castle on the Elbe |