Anna of Poland

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Anna of Poland, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny, 1598.

Anna of Poland (Polish Anna Jagiellonka ; born March 12, 1476 in Nieszawa ; † August 12, 1503 in Ueckermünde ) was a Polish princess from the Jagiellonian dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania.

Anna was a daughter of the Polish king Casimir IV and his wife Elisabeth von Habsburg .

Life

After Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania became a widower after the death of his first wife Margarete von Brandenburg in 1489, he was courting Princess Anna as early as 1490. On February 2nd, 1491 the wedding took place in Szczecin with great celebrations.

Duke Bogislaw X. took the wedding with the Polish king's daughter as an opportunity to furnish his hitherto simple court status more splendid. The marriage was evidently a happy one and, as some letters from the Duke to his wife show, it was full of real love. According to the judgment of the historian Martin Wehrmann , Duchess Anna exercised “a benevolent influence on the rough and poorly educated husband”.

When Duke Bogislaw X traveled to the empire from 1496 to 1498 and then via Venice to the Holy Land, Duchess Anna led the government for him in Pomerania. A Regency Council stood by her side.

Duchess Anna died in 1503. She was buried in Eldena .

Duchess Anna and Duke Bogislaw X. had the following children:

  • Anna (* 1492; † 1550), married Duke Georg I of Liegnitz and Brieg in June 1515
  • George I (* 1493; † 1531)
  • Casimir (* 1494; † 1518)
  • Elisabeth († before 1518)
  • Barnim (* before 1501, † before 1501)
  • Sophia (* 1498; † 1568), wife of Frederick I of Denmark, Queen of Denmark from 1525
  • Barnim IX. (* 1501- † 1573)
  • Otto (* before 1503, † before 1518)

In the 21st century there is a sandstone pair sculpture in honor of Bogislaw X with Anna Jagiellonka with the date 1491 on Stettiner Schlossstrasse.

literature

Footnotes

  1. Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919, p. 246 (reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 ).
  2. Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919, p. 248 (reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 ).
  3. ^ Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Saunier, Stettin 1937, p. 107.