Peace of Templin
The Peace of Templin is a peace treaty dated November 25, 1317 , which ended the North German Margrave War. It was completed in the Brandenburg town of Templin .
From 1278 to 1283, under the margrave Otto IV , there were armed conflicts with the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , during which Otto IV suffered several defeats. In 1308 Waldemar became the Great Margrave of Brandenburg. Waldemar conquered in 1308 Gdansk to his claims to Pomerania to confirm. However, this provoked a military intervention by the Teutonic Order . Waldemar could not assert himself against the order and in the end was forced to sell his claims to Pomeranian in the contract of Soldin . In the final phase of the armed conflict, after the death of the margrave's daughter Beatrix (1314), the inheritance dispute between the Brandenburgers and Heinrich II , Prince of Mecklenburg, over the rule of Stargard mingled .
After the lost battle at Gransee in 1316, the Peace of Templin sealed Waldemar's defeat against a coalition of north German princes led by the Danish king. As a result of this defeat, Brandenburg lost its access to the Baltic Sea to the Duchy of Pomerania . The Stargard rule came permanently to Mecklenburg. Waldemar declared in the peace document: We have transferred the possession of the Land of Stargard to the Lord of Mecklenburg with all the rights that he had from Margrave Johann and his ancestors . The feudal relationship remained so as before.
With the death of Waldemar and his underage cousin Heinrich , 1319/20, the house of the Ascanians in Brandenburg went extinct .
literature
- Hermann Krabbo : The transition of the state of Stargard from Brandenburg to Mecklenburg . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . 91, 1927, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 1-18.