Eric II (Pomerania)

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Eric II of Pomerania
Erich II. And his wife Sophia von Pommern-Stolp from the Griffin family tree by Cornelius Krommeny , 1598.
Erich II and his wife Sophia von Pommern-Stolp from the family tree of the Duke Ulrich Monument in the Güstrow Cathedral by Philipp Brandin , 1587.

Erich II (* late 1427 ; † July 5, 1474 in Wolgast ) was Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast, Western Pomerania and Stettin. His reign was among the most troubled in Pomeranian history.

Life

Eric II was the eldest son of Duke Wartislaw IX. von Pommern-Wolgast and Sophia von Sachsen-Lauenburg († 1462). After he was Sophia von Pommern-Stolp in 1451 , the daughter of Bogislaw IX, who died in 1446 . , had married, he soon went to Erich I of Pomerania in the region of Hinterpommern. Due to the occupation of the country of Massow , he got into a dispute with Erich I. After the death of his father in 1457, he and his brother Wartislaw X. inherited the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast . After disputes over inheritance, he left the Duchy of Barth with Rügen to Wartislaw X on the basis of an arbitration award by Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg .

When Erich II. In the summer of 1457 illegally on the pledge possession of Greifswald belonging Feldmark Horst chased, he was of Stralsund and Greifswald citizens, led by the mayor of Greifswald Heinrich Rubenow surrounded, but escaped in contrast to his suite of capture. He had to make good all damage by the end of the year. Further disputes only ended when Greifswald allied itself with Stralsund, Demmin and Anklam in 1461/62.

After Duke Erich I of Pomerania died in Rügenwalde in 1459 , he assumed rule in Rügenwalde- Stolp and Belgard - Neustettin through the inheritance of his wife Sophia . As early as January 1455, Erich I had allied himself with the Kingdom of Poland against the Teutonic Order . When Eric II sided with the order during the siege of Lauenburg in 1460, 600 Poles and Tatars invaded in 1461, during which Neustettin was burned down and looted. After the defeat of the Teutonic Order near Zarnowitz in 1462, he switched back to Poland. In 1467 he joined the Second Peace of Thorner and received the lands of Lauenburg and Bütow from the Polish King Casimir IV .

As Otto III. von Pommern-Stettin had died of the plague in 1464, Friedrich II of Brandenburg raised a claim to this part of the country due to the Brandenburg fiefdom that had never been clarified. On January 21, 1466, Erich II and Wartislaw X took their duchies from the Brandenburg Elector as a fief in Soldin . However, since the feudal treaty was not fulfilled, the War of the Stettin Succession broke out , during which the Brandenburgers conquered several cities on both sides of the Oder in 1468. Finally, in 1469, after the unsuccessful siege of Ueckermünde, there was an armistice. Its extension was the only result of the negotiations in Petrikau at the beginning of 1470 . While Erich II raided Neumark in May 1470, the Brandenburgers took out insurance from Emperor Friedrich III. the recognition of their claims to Pomerania. This finally enfeoffed the Brandenburgers with the Lands of Stettin in December 1471 and ordered Erich II and Wartislaw X to recognize the feudal sovereignty of Brandenburg. Through the mediation of Duke Heinrich von Mecklenburg , peace was concluded in Prenzlau at the end of May 1472. The Pomeranian dukes and estates had to pay homage to the elector who retained the conquered territories.

Tablet in Eldena

Erich II died in 1474 of a plague-like illness and was buried in the Eldena monastery.

Marriage and offspring

Erich II married Sophia , the daughter of Duke Bogislaw IX , in 1451 . from Pommern-Stolp. From the marriage emerged:

  1. Bogislaw X. (* 1454; † 1523)
  2. Casimir (around 1455 - † 1474)
  3. Wartislaw (* after 1465; † 1475)
  4. Barnim (* after 1465; † 1474)
  5. Elisabeth († 1516), prioress at Verchen Monastery
  6. Sophie (* 1460; † 1504), ∞ Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg (* 1441; † 1503)
  7. Margarete († 1526), ​​∞ Duke Balthasar of Mecklenburg (* 1451; † 1507)
  8. Katharina († 1526), ​​∞ Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (* 1463; † 1514)
  9. Maria († 1512), abbess of Wollin

The Mecklenburg historian Friedrich Wigger († 1886) assumed that Erich II was married to Margarete, a daughter of Duke Heinrich the Elder of Mecklenburg-Stargard. This assumption was not included in Pomeranian historiography; the historian Adolf Hofmeister refuted it.

See also

literature

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Adolf Hofmeister : Genealogical investigations into the history of the Pomeranian ducal house. Greifswald Treatises on the History of the Middle Ages, Volume 11. University Publishing House Ratsbuchhandlung L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1938, pp. 186-189.
personal data
SURNAME Eric II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pommern-Wolgast, Western Pomerania and Stettin
DATE OF BIRTH around 1425
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1474
Place of death Wolgast