Barbara of Saxony-Wittenberg

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Barbara von Sachsen-Wittenberg (* 1405 in Dresden ; † October 10, 1465 in Bayreuth ), from the Sachsen-Wittenberg line of the Ascanians , was the wife of Margrave Johann von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , known as Johann the Alchemist (* 1406; † 6 November 1464 in Baiersdorf) and mother of the Danish Queen Dorothea (* 1430; † November 10, 1495 in Kalundborg, Denmark).

Life

Princess Barbara was born in 1405 as the eldest daughter of Duke Rudolf III. von Sachsen-Wittenberg and his second wife Barbara von Schlesien-Liegnitz was born in Dresden. She was engaged to Johann von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, who was a year younger than her, at an early age, and in 1416, at the age of eleven, married the ten-year-old. The marriage was brokered by the later Emperor Sigismund, who originally wanted to enfeoff Johann with Electoral Saxony, but this was revoked.

The couple lived for a long time on the Plassenburg near Kulmbach, on Scharfeneck Castle near Baiersdorf - where Johann also died - and a city apartment in Nuremberg. Barbara spent the time after her husband's death in Bayreuth. There she died on October 10, 1465, almost a year after her husband had died.

Barbara was buried as the first noblewoman in the town church of Bayreuth.

family

Barbara was the eldest daughter of Rudolf III, Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and his second wife Barbara of Silesia-Liegnitz. She had three brothers, Rudolf († 1406), Wenzel († 1407) and Siegmund († 1407) and a half-sister, Scholastika (1393–1463; ∞ Duke Johann I von Sagan), from her father's first marriage to Anna von Meissen († July 4, 1395). Siegmund and Wenzel perished when a castle tower collapsed.

Barbara and Johann had four children together, of which the three girls survived childhood:

Barbara (1422-1481)

⚭ 1433 Margrave Luigi III. Gonzaga of Mantua (1414–1478)

Rudolf (* / † 1424)

Elisabeth (1425–1465)

⚭ 1. 1440 Duke Joachim of Pomerania (1427–1451)

⚭ 2. 1454 Duke Wartislaw X. of Pomerania (1435–1478)

Dorothea (1430-1495)

⚭ 1. 1445 King Christoph III. of Denmark , Norway and Sweden (1416–1448)

⚭ 2. 1449 King Christian I of Denmark (1426–1481)

In addition, the illegitimate son of Johann was Fritz von Brandenburg. He had two daughters: Magdalena and Franziska von Brandenburg. They were married to Italian counts.

literature

  • Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz: The history of the kingdom of Saxony n. Dresden 1826.
  • Fritz Rudolf Künder (ed.): Brandenburg in Franconia and the Franconian Empire . Numismatischer Verlag Künkel 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara von Sachsen-Wittenberg in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz: The history of the kingdom of Saxony . tape 1 . Hilscher, 1826, p. 110 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Barbara of Saxony-Wittenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblewoman, wife of Margrave Johann von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, mother of the Danish Queen Dorothea
DATE OF BIRTH 1405
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1465
Place of death Bayreuth