Ernst (Brandenburg-Jägerndorf)

Ernst von Brandenburg (born January 18, 1617 in Jägerndorf , † October 4, 1642 in Berlin ), Margrave of Brandenburg and titular duke of Jägerndorf . Ernst was the youngest child of Margrave Johann Georg von Brandenburg and Duke von Jägerndorf (1577–1624) and his wife Eva Christine von Württemberg (1590–1657).

Life

The Emperor confiscated the Duchy of Jägerndorf in 1621 because of the support of Margrave Johann Georg for the Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate and for the Bohemian uprising . Ernst spent most of his youth traveling through Italy, France and Germany.

Elector Georg Wilhelm , his second cousin , spoke in vain for the appointment of Ernst as Duke of Jägerndorf during the Prague peace negotiations in 1635 . Around 1640 he came to the Königsberg court and was later appointed governor in the Kurmark. At the end of 1641 he was engaged to Luise Charlotte , the daughter of the elector. Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg had been campaigning for Luise Charlotte since 1639 . The new Elector Friedrich Wilhelm decided in favor of Ernst, which resulted in a cooling of the relationship with Pfalz-Neuburg. Ernst died before the wedding, less than a year after an outbreak of mental illness. The inheritance claims to the Duchy of Jägerndorf in Silesia then passed to the electoral line of the Hohenzollern .

literature

• Robert Hassencamp : A Brandenburg-Bergisches marriage project in 1641 , contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein 10 (1895), pp. 225–243,
• Wilhelm Maier: The planned marriage of Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg with the sister of the Great Elector , Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne 87 (1909), pp. 162-173.
• Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer:  Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 257.

See also

• Tribe list of the Hohenzollern