Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1425–1465)
Elisabeth von Brandenburg (* 1425 ; † after January 13, 1465 ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania .
Life
Elisabeth was a daughter of Margrave Johann von Brandenburg (1406–1464), called the alchemist from his marriage to Barbara (1405–1465), daughter of Duke Rudolf III. of Saxony-Wittenberg . Elisabeth's father renounced the rights of his firstborn and the succession to the throne in Brandenburg and received the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollern . Her sisters were the Danish Queen Dorothea and the Margravine Barbara of Mantua .
She married Duke Joachim I of Pomerania-Stettin (1427-1451) on August 27, 1440 . The marriage sealed a comparison between Brandenburg and Pomerania. After eleven years of marriage, Joachim died of the plague in Szczecin , leaving behind a son .
On March 5, 1454 she married Duke Wartislaw X. of Pomerania-Rügen (1435-1478) for the second time . After the death of her son's first marriage, a dispute broke out over the inheritance of the House of Stettin. In 1464, all three of Elizabeth's sons died, as did her father. Her second marriage was extremely unhappy, her husband had “ […] thought of murdering her and killing her, that it would be unchristian and pitiful to collect her interest and pensions. ”
Elisabeth fled from her husband to the Mark Brandenburg and renounced Ückermünde in favor of her uncle, Elector Friedrich von Brandenburg , which Joachim had promised her as a personal asset, as well as her Wittum Barth , which she had been promised when she married Wartislaw. Because of her “ great hardship and poverty ”, her uncle prescribed Arnswalde, along with dishes and slopes, Lippehne and Berlinchen instead of her paternal inheritance .
Friedrich took the fate of his niece as an opportunity to negotiate with Wartislaw to end Stettin and to make his claims more stringent. Wartislaw finally took his duchy in 1466 after the mediation of Duke Heinrich von Mecklenburg as a fiefdom from Elector Friedrich II.
progeny
From her first marriage to Joachim Elisabeth had a son:
- Otto III. (1444–1464), Duke of Pomerania-Stettin
From her second marriage to Wartislaw she had two sons:
- Swantibor (1454-1464)
- Ertmar (1455–1464)
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of Rügen and Pomerania, Volume 4 , F. Perthes, 1843, p. 289 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Jakob Sell: History of the Duchy of Pomerania , Flittner, 1819, p. 62
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elisabeth of Brandenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess of Pomerania |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1425 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1465 |