Barnim VII (Pomerania)

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. Barnim VII (* around 1403 / 1405 ; † interlocutory 21st July and 20th December 1451 in Gützkow ) was Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast . He was co-regent of his older brother Wartislaw IX. and resided in Gützkow.

Life

Barnim VII was the younger son of Duke Barnim VI. (1365–1405) and Veronika von Hohenzollern . After his father died of the plague, his brother Wartislaw VIII (1373-1415) took over the guardianship of Barnim VII and his siblings. After Wartislaws VIII. Death, the government and the guardianship passed over the sons of Barnim VI. and Wartislaws VIII to his widow Agnes, to whom the estates provided a regency council under Cord Bonow .

As Barnim VII's older brother Wartislaw IX. came of age, he received for himself and his brother and their cousins Barnim VIII. and Swantibor II. on May 31, 1417 from King Sigismund in Constance the enfeoffment with the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast. After his return, Wartislaw IX took over. the government and the guardianship of his underage cousins. Barnim VII, initially himself under the tutelage of his brother, took part in his government.

On April 11, 1423, the dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast, including Barnims VII, and Pomerania-Stettin in Copenhagen decided in a treaty with their relative, King Erich von Pomerania , to give each other assistance against their enemies. King Erich and the Pomeranian dukes agreed on September 15, 1423 in Neustettin on a protective alliance with the Teutonic Order , represented by Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf .

When the youngest of the four dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast reached the age of majority, they agreed on a division of the country on December 6, 1425 in the Eldena monastery . Wartislaw IX. and Barnim VII. together received Wolgast, Greifswald , Demmin , Gützkow, Anklam , Pasewalk , Torgelow and Usedom as well as Stevns Herred on the Danish island of Zealand .

Wartislaw IX probably ruled. and Barnim VII jointly, for they exercised their sovereign rights together. In 1427 they jointly confirmed the privileges of the city of Greifswald, jointly notarized in 1428 for the Stolpe Monastery , and both decided in 1433 and 1434 on their Wolgast Castle in disputes between the Pudagla Monastery . In addition, both of them repeatedly authenticated alone, so Barnim 1438 in Gützkower affairs. The two dukes had shared the property and income of their part of the country. Barnim VII had the former county of Gützkow in 1425 , rebuilt the castle and took up residence here. He himself called Gützkow his bailiwick . Compared with his brother, who is apparently politically more active, Barnim's share in government affairs in Pomerania-Wolgast is usually portrayed in historiography as low and Gützkow as his severance payment.

Barnim VII, from then on called Prince von Gützkow , was in great financial trouble in 1434, he is known as a lover of large feasts and large hunts. His brother, Duke Wartislaw IX. lent him money, used land in the domain of Duke Barnim VII as pledged goods. On May 16, 1436, he joined the church brotherhood of St. Nikolai and St. Marien in Greifswald.

In 1445 he and his cousin Barnim VIII defended the city of Pasewalk against the Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg .

Duke Barnim VII, Prince of Gützkow, died unmarried in 1451 and was buried in the Gützkow church. It is the only duke who was buried in the Gützkower Church, but there is no grave slab or other information. From that year the county of Gützkow fell to the Wolgast rule and was administered by Vögten. Henning von Owstin became the first bailiff . Since the bailiffs administer the county from their ancestral seat, the Gützkower Castle remained uninhabited and fell into disrepair.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Heitz , Henning Rischer : History in data. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Koehler & Amelang, Münster-Berlin 1995, ISBN 3733801954 , pp. 189-190.
  2. ↑ Martin Wehrmann: History of Pomerania. Vol. 1, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919, p. 190.
  3. ↑ Max Bär :  Wartislav IX., Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 212 f.
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold : History of Pomerania and Rügen. Fourth part, first volume: From the appearance of the Hohenzollern in the Mark Brandenburg (1411) to the return of Bogislav X. from the h. Grave (1498). Hamburg 1843, pp. 63-64 (digitized version ) .
  5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of Pomerania and Rügen. Fourth part, first volume: From the appearance of the Hohenzollern in the Mark Brandenburg (1411) to the return of Bogislav X. from the h. Grave (1498). Hamburg 1843, pp. 75-76 (digitized version ) .
  6. ^ A b c Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. IV. Part Volume II, Anklam 1868, p. 140 (digitized version) .
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of Pomerania and Rügen. Fourth part, first volume: From the appearance of the Hohenzollern in the Mark Brandenburg (1411) to the return of Bogislav X. from the h. Grave (1498). Hamburg 1843, pp. 106-107 (digitized version ) .
  8. ^ Adolf Häckermann :  Barnim VII. And Barnim VIII. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 79.
  9. ^ Albert Georg von Schwarz : Diplomatic history of the Pomeranian-Rügischen cities of Swedish sovereignty. Chapter: From the origin of the city of Gützkow. Hieronymus Johann Struck, Greifswald 1755, pp. 832–836 (digitized version ) .
  10. ↑ Pasewalk in History ( PDF ; 345 kB)
  11. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : The burial places of the members of the Pomeranian ducal house. Reprint-Baltic Studies, Stettin 1937, p. 105 (9) The burial places of the members of the Pomeranian ducal house , digitized, DjVu
personal data
SURNAME Barnim VII.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast
DATE OF BIRTH around 1403-1405
DATE OF DEATH between July 21, 1451 and December 20, 1451
Place of death Gützkow