Conrad I (Brandenburg)

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Conrad I of Brandenburg (* around 1240 ; † 1304 , also Conrad ) was Margrave ( co-regent ) of Brandenburg from the Ascanian dynasty .

Life

Konrad I was born the fourth of six children to Margrave Johann I of Brandenburg and his wife Sophia of Denmark . In 1260 he married Konstanze, the first-born daughter of Duke Przemyslaw I of Greater Poland, who died in 1257 . The arranged marriage with the eastern duchy served to secure Neumark, which was then still expanding to the northeast. With the death of his father in 1266, at the age of 26, he became co-regent of the Johannine branch of the Mark Brandenburg together with his older brothers Johann II and Otto IV . His government area, assigned according to his father's disposition, was the Neumark east of the Oder, in which his cousin Margrave Otto V. of the Ottonian family branch also had a refuge. Here he got into varied conflicts with the dukes of Pomerania. Taking sides with Duke Mestwin II, who had previously become a vassal of Brandenburg in the Landin Treaty, he helped the latter in his quarrel with his younger brother and an uncle. The heavily German-populated Danzig, which Konrad also conquered, was promised as a prize for the support. After the successful conclusion of the Pomeranian fratricidal war, which ended with the death of Mestwin's younger brother and rival, Mestwin II, now ruling alone in the duchy, demanded the flourishing Hanseatic city of Danzig from Konrad and the Brandenburgers, thereby breaking his own promises. The Brandenburg garrison refused to surrender and fended off an attempt by the duke to conquer. Sections of the German population actively supported this under the leadership of the patrician council.

Duke Mestwin II then, finally breaking the feudal oath towards Brandenburg, sought support from his Polish cousin, the Piast Duke Bolesław VI., Who moved with an army in January 1272 to the city and conquered the same and castle after a siege of several weeks. There were then attacks in the form of expropriations and even occasional death sentences against the German population, who had also assisted the Brandenburgers during the second siege.

On the Warta, the important border fortification in Driesen was lost in May of the same year.

Conrad I of Brandenburg also found his final resting place in 1304 in the Chorin monastery at the side of his wife Konstanze.

Theodor Fontane reproduces an inscription from the Chorin Monastery according to the Chorin official acts as follows:

"Anno 1304 died at Sched (?) Margrave Conrad (I.) Elector of Brandenburg and is buried here."

- Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg

Under his third son Waldemar, later Waldemar the Great, the three Brandenburg branches, the older and younger Johannine line and the Ottonian line, were combined.

children

From the marriage with Konstanze von Polen:

literature

  • Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. German imperial, royal, ducal and count houses. Volume I, Part 1, Plate 223.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Krabbo: Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg, document number 1016
  2. ^ Hermann Krabbo: Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg, document number 1022
  3. ^ Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . In: Jutta Neuendorff-Fürstenau (Ed.): Theodor-Fontane-Gesamtausgabe. Part 2 of works, writings and letters, Hanser Verlag, 1987, p. 91.

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predecessor Office successor
Johann I. Margrave of Brandenburg
1266–1304 		Waldemar
personal data
SURNAME Konrad I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1240
DATE OF DEATH 1304