Barnim IV (Pomerania)

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Barnim IV (* 1325 ; † August 22, 1365 ) was Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast-Rügen .

He was the second son of Duke Wartislaw IV of Pomerania-Wolgast and the brother of Bogislaw V and Wartislaw V. With his wife Sophie von Werle , the daughter of Johann II , he had two sons - Wartislaw VI. and Bogislaw VI. - and a daughter - Elisabeth, married to Duke Magnus I of Mecklenburg . From 1326 Barnim IV was under guardianship together with his brother Bogislaw V. Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast-Rügen. In 1348 Barnim IV achieved imperial immediacy through the Roman-German King and later Emperor Charles IV.

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