Barbara of Brandenburg (1527–1595)
Barbara von Brandenburg (born August 10, 1527 in Berlin , † January 2, 1595 in Brieg ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage duchess of the Lower Silesian Duchy of Brieg .
Life
Barbara was the eldest daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Joachim II from his marriage to Magdalene , daughter of Duke George of Saxony .
On February 15, 1545 she was married to the Brieger Duke Georg II in Berlin . The engagement had already taken place eight years earlier as part of the Brandenburg hereditary brotherhood with the Liegnitz branch of the Silesian Piast between Elector Joachim II and Duke Friedrich II of Liegnitz . The marriage was celebrated as a double wedding at the same time as that of her brother Johann Georg with Sophie , the sister of Barbara's groom. Barbara's dowry was 20,000 Rhenish guilders, for which the office and city of Brieg were assigned to her as personal items .
After the death of his father Friedrich II in 1547, Georg II took over the Liegnitz subduchies of Brieg and Wohlau . When he died in 1586, he bequeathed the city of Brieg to his wife Barbara as Wittum , over which she would rule until her death. The Duchy of Brieg, reduced in size, was given to the older son Joachim Brieg , while Wohlau was given to the younger son Johann Georg . They ruled the Duchy of Ohlau together. Since the Brieger residence belonged to their mother, they initially resided in Ohlau . After Barbara's death in 1595, the town of Brieg fell to her son Joachim Friedrich, to whom Ohlau had passed over a year earlier, who had belonged to his widow Anna von Württemberg as Wittum since Johann Georg's death in 1592 .
Barbara's reign belongs to the heyday of the city of Brzeg.
There are two larger-than-life round sculptures on the archway of Brieger Castle. They represent Duchess Barbara in the princely women's costume of her time and her husband, Duke Georg II.
progeny
Barbara had the following children from their marriage:
- Barbara (1548-1565)
- Joachim Friedrich (1550–1602), Duke of Brieg, Ohlau and Liegnitz
- ⚭ 1577 Princess Anna Maria of Anhalt (1561–1605)
- Johann Georg (1552–1592), Duke of Ohlau and Wohlau
- ⚭ 1582 Princess Anna of Württemberg (1561–1616)
- Sophia (1556–1594)
- Magdalena (1560–1562)
- Daughter (* / † 1561)
- Elisabeth Magdalena (1562-1630)
- ⚭ 1585 Duke Charles II of Münsterberg-Oels (1545–1617)
literature
- Ludwig Petry and Josef Joachim Menzel (eds.): History of Silesia . Volume 2, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , pp. 26, 34 and 40f.
Web links
- Barbara von Hohenzollern on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.
- http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/womeninpower/Womeninpower1570.htm
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Sammter: Chronicle of Legnica , pressure of W. Pentecost, 1868, p 191
- ^ Journal of Prussian History and Regional Studies , Mittler, 1868, p. 341 ( digitized version )
- ↑ The information on this is contradictory. According to Geschichte Schlesiens, vol. 2, p. 34 it received Ohlau as Wittum.
- ↑ http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SCI/Brieg/st-kr/stbrieg.html
- ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 55.
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SURNAME | Barbara of Brandenburg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess of Brzeg |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1527 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1595 |
Place of death | Brieg |