Joachim Sigismund of Brandenburg

Portrait of Joachim Sigismund as a child, oil painting by Daniel Rose, 1605.

Joachim Sigismund von Brandenburg (born July 25, 1603 in Berlin ; † February 22, 1625 there ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg and Lord Master of the Order of St. John .

Life

Joachim Sigismund was the second son of Elector Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg (1572–1619) from his marriage to Anna (1576–1625), daughter of Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia .

While his father accepted the Reformed faith , his mother remained a Lutheran and tried to appoint her second, Lutheran-raised son as heir to the Duchy of Prussia , which she had given to the Kurhaus Brandenburg. But Elector Johann Sigismund refused to divide the country. Even before his older brother Georg Wilhelm , Joachim Sigismund later accepted the Reformed Confession, while his mother negotiated with the King of Poland about his successor in Prussia, but broke it off because her son converted. Only Joachim Sigismund's sisters Anna Sophia , Maria Eleonora and Katharina remained loyal to their mother and remained Lutherans.

Joachim Sigismund also gave up his mother's support in the religious policy directed towards his older brother. Georg Wilhelm then handed him the office of master master of the Order of St. John in the Brandenburg Ballei Sonnenburg in 1624 . Joachim Sigismund died the following year at the age of 21 and was buried in the Hohenzollern crypt of the Berlin Cathedral . Joachim Sigismund's Preceptor Jakob Müller then became the teacher of the future Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

literature

Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel : History of the Prussian State: From the years 1191 to 1640 , F. Perthes, 1830, p. 427.
Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld : History of the knightly order St. Johannis from Spital zu Jerusalem. Berlin 1859, p. 732

Individual evidence

^ Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation , part 1, Hoffmann and Campe, 1851, p. 89.
↑ She later became a Catholic.
↑ Gottlob von Polenz: History of French Calvinism up to the National Assembly IJ 1789 , FA Perthes , 1857, p. 712.
↑ Georg Wilhelm von Raumer : Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, Elector of Brandenburg Childhood: From archival sources , Decker, 1850, p. 16.

predecessor	Office	successor
Margrave Johann Georg of Brandenburg	Master of the Balley Brandenburg of the Order of St. John 1624–1625	Adam Count von Schwarzenberg

personal data
SURNAME	Joachim Sigismund of Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Margrave of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1625
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation , part 1, Hoffmann and Campe, 1851, p. 89.

[2] She later became a Catholic.

[3] Gottlob von Polenz: History of French Calvinism up to the National Assembly IJ 1789 , FA Perthes , 1857, p. 712.

[4] Georg Wilhelm von Raumer : Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, Elector of Brandenburg Childhood: From archival sources , Decker, 1850, p. 16.