Heinrich II. (Brandenburg)

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Monument in the former Siegesallee in Berlin , 1900

Henry II of Brandenburg. , The Younger , also known as Henry the child (* around 1308 , † July 1320 in Prenzlau ), from the gender of Askanier as a child for a short period (1319-1320) Margrave of Brandenburg .

Life

Heinrich's parents were Margrave Heinrich I of Brandenburg and Agnes of Bavaria , daughter of Duke Ludwig II. Heinrich had three older sisters.

At the age of eleven, Heinrich followed his cousin Waldemar von Brandenburg, who died childless, as Margrave of Brandenburg. The Pomeranian Duke Wartislaw IV was the guardian of government affairs in Brandenburg and used them to enforce Pomeranian interests. Thereupon, Heinrich's Ascanian relative, Duke Rudolf I of Saxony-Wittenberg, intervened and tried to take over the guardianship. King Ludwig IV , a half-brother of Heinrich's mother, declared Heinrich to be of age, but refused to grant him the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

His early death in 1320 prevented the young margrave from taking any independent action and also meant the end of the Brandenburg line of the Ascanians. According to the legend Lütt Heinrich , he found his final resting place in a vault of the Sankt-Maria-Kirche in Prenzlau . King Ludwig IV moved in Brandenburg as a settled imperial fief and enfeoffed his son Ludwig with the Mark Brandenburg in 1323, bypassing the Saxon-Anhalt line of the Ascanians .

monument

Statue of Heinrich von August Kraus in the former Berlin Siegesallee with the two busts of Wartislaw IV and Knight Wedigo von Plotho, unveiled on March 22, 1900 as Monument Group 9 . The sculptor Kraus used the French cellist Paul Bazelaire as a model for the boyish margrave , who was visiting Berlin at the time of the work.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medlands: Brandenburg. Ch. 3. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (English); Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  2. ^ Albert Burkhardt (selection and processing), Ralf-Jürgen Lehmann (illustration): The treasure of Chorin. Legends and fairy tales of the Mark Brandenburg . Stapp Verlag Wolfgang Stapp, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87776-570-X , Lütt Heinrich, pp. 50–51.
predecessor Office successor
Waldemar the Great Margrave of Brandenburg
1319–1320 		Brandenburg interregnum
personal data
SURNAME Henry II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich the child; Heinrich the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of the Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1308
DATE OF DEATH July 1320
Place of death Prenzlau