Bogislaw V. (Pomerania)

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Bogislaw V. with his first wife Elisabeth (picture in Rügenwalde Castle ), copy after Cornelius Krommeny
Bogislaw V with his two wives, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny, 1598
Secret seal of Duke Bogislaw V, 1361 - drawn from Theodor Pyl's Pomeranian Historical Monuments , 1894
Seal of Duchess Elisabeth from 1361, wife of Duke Bogislaw V. - redrawing by FA Voßberg 1854

Bogislaw V. (* around 1318; † between October 16, 1373 and April 24, 1374 ) was a Duke of Pomerania from the Greifenhaus . He ruled first in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast , after the division of 1368/1372 then in the Duchy of Pommern-Stolp .

Life

Bogislaw V was the eldest son of Duke Wartislaw IV , who ruled in the Pomeranian partial duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast , and his wife Elisabeth of Silesia. After the death of Wartislaw IV. In 1326, his sons - besides Bogislaw V, his younger brothers Barnim IV. (* Around 1325) and Wartislaw V. (* 1326) - became dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast. At first they were under guardianship.

First, after the death of Wartislaw IV, the First War of the Rügen Succession took place . Duke Wartislaw IV. Took over the Principality of Rügen after the Rügen Princely House died out in 1325 . After Wartislaw's death, however, Prince Heinrich II of Mecklenburg saw his chance to take Rügen after all. But the Pomeranians remained victorious. The Stettin Duke Barnim III made the Peace of Brudersdorf . as guardian for the young Bogislaw V. and his brothers.

At that time the direct imperial position of the Duchy of Pomerania was in question. King Ludwig the Bavarian asked the Pomeranian dukes in 1328 to pay homage to his son Ludwig V, who was enfeoffed with the Mark Brandenburg . It was an impressive, but inconsequential step that the dukes then gave the Duchy of Pomerania to Pope John XXII. the Stettin dukes Barnim III acted for the young Bogislaw V. and his brothers . and Otto I. In 1338 this question came to a partial solution when Ludwig the Bavarian gave the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin to the dukes Barnim III. and Otto I. recognized as directly imperial.

At the same time, however, Barnim III agreed. and Otto I. that in the event that they should die without leaving any sons, their Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin should fall to Brandenburg. In this way, the Dukes of Szczecin had placed their Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin in a better position than the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast of their ward and the right of their ward to inherit the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin. This led to disputes in Pomerania. Several cities in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin undertook to obey only the Dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast in the event of the line's extinction. In this context, Bogislaw V and his brothers Barnim IV and Wartislaw V broke away from their Stettin guardians from 1341 and took over the rule independently and together. Bogislaw V appeared as active ruler, later Barnim IV as well, while Wartislaw V remained in the shadow of his older brothers. Some cities in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin such as Stettin and Greifenhagen paid homage to the young dukes Bogislaw V, Barnim IV and Wartislaw V as early as 1341.

In 1348, the new King Charles IV recognized the imperial immediacy of all Pomeranian dukes. Since he enfeoffed all of the Pomeranian dukes in full , the Brandenburg entitlement to Pomerania-Stettin was canceled.

In 1363, Emperor Charles IV married Duke Bogislaw's daughter Elisabeth . She had been brought up at the court of her grandfather, the Polish king, in Cracow . The wedding was also celebrated there.

In 1368 there was a preliminary division of the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast. In the part of the country east of the Swine Bogislaw V ruled, in the part to the west of the Swine the sons of his brother Barnim IV, who died in 1365. His youngest brother Wartislaw V settled in 1368 with the state of Neustettin. In 1372 this division of rule was finally decided. The resulting partial duchy of Duke Bogislaw V is known as Pomerania-Stolp .

In 1373 or 1374 Duke Bogislaw V died. He was buried in Belbuck Monastery .

Marriages and offspring

During Bogislaw V's childhood, he became engaged to a sister of the Danish King Waldemar III. , a certain Heilwig, agreed to meet. But the marriage did not take place.

Instead, Duke Bogislaw V married Elizabeth , a daughter of King Casimir III, in 1343 . of Poland and Anna of Lithuania. From this marriage came a son and a daughter:

  • Casimir IV. (* Around 1345; † 1377), ruled from 1370 in the Dobriner Land, from 1374 in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stolp
  • Elisabeth (* around 1345; † 1393), as the wife of Charles IV, Queen of Bohemia and Roman-German Empress

Duchess Elisabeth died in 1361. She was probably buried in the Marienthron monastery near Neustettin.

In his second marriage, Duke Bogislaw V. married Adelheid von Braunschweig-Osterode (* around 1341), daughter of Duke Ernst I von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen and Adelheid von Everstein. They had three sons and a daughter:

  • Wartislaw VII. († 1395), ruled in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stolp
  • Bogislaw VIII. (* Around 1364, † 1418), ruled in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stolp, temporarily administrator in the Diocese of Cammin
  • Margarethe (* around 1366; † 1407), married Duke Ernst I of Austria
  • Barnim V. (* around 1369; † 1402/1403), ruled in the Duchy of Pomerania-Stolp

The Dowager Duchess Adelheid outlived her husband Bogislaw V. by more than 30 years. She died in 1406 and was buried in the Marienkron Charterhouse , which she founded in 1394.

In the past it was partly assumed that Duke Bogislaw V had another daughter named Katharina who married a Duke of Mazovia named Heinrich or Konrad. For example, it is included in the family tables of the Greifenhaus that were compiled by Robert Klempin in the 19th century. However, it is neither documented nor from contemporary writings, and the Polish historian Oswald Balzer was able to prove that neither a Konrad von Masowien nor Heinrich von Masowien, who was Bishop of Plock († 1393), could be considered as a point of reference.

See also

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 1. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919, p. 137 (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. 138 (reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 ).
personal data
SURNAME Bogislaw V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bogislav V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1318
DATE OF DEATH between October 16, 1373 and April 24, 1374