Ludwig IV (Liegnitz)

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Ludwig IV of Liegnitz (born April 19, 1616 in Brieg ; † November 24, 1663 in Liegnitz ) was in joint regency with his brothers Georg III from 1639–1653. and Christian Herzog von Brieg . After the division of the estate in 1653, he fell to Liegnitz , which he ruled alone until his death in 1663.

Origin and family

Ludwig came from the Liegnitz branch of the Silesian Piasts . His parents were the Brieger Duke Johann Christian and his first wife Dorothea Sybille , who was a daughter of the Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg .

On May 8, 1649, Ludwig IV married Anna Sophie (1628–1666), daughter of Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow from his third marriage to Eleonora Maria von Anhalt-Bernburg in Brieg . Eleonora Maria was a cousin of Ludwig's father and thus Ludwig 's second aunt (also great cousin) . The marriage resulted in the only son Christian Albert, who was born on November 7, 1651 and died on January 20, 1652.

Life

After his father Johann Christian fled to Thorn in 1633 , Ludwig and his older brother Georg III were also there. who were studying abroad, were ordered to where they should await further developments. After the evangelical estates elected the absent Duke Johann Christian as director of the Silesian Princely Congress on July 11, 1634 , the family returned to Brieg. When the father went into exile in Thorn again at the beginning of January 1635, he left Ludwig and his brother Georg, whom he appointed governor in 1637, back in Brieg, where the youngest brother Christian also returned in 1638 at the instigation of the father .

After the death of his father Johann Christian in 1639, Ludwig and his two brothers Georg and Christian inherited the Duchy of Brieg and Ohlau , which, however, was assigned to their mother as Wittum in their will. At first they ruled their property together. They initially refused to split, as their relatively small inheritance was additionally burdened with a severance payment for the siblings excluded from the succession from the father's second marriage . Only after the Duchy of Liegnitz and Wohlau came to them in 1653 after the death of their uncle Georg Rudolf, who died childless , did they share the property. Ludwig received Liegnitz, Georg received Brieg and Christian Wohlau and Ohlau. From 1644 Friedrich von Logau was ducal counselor to Duke Ludwig, with whom he moved to Liegnitz in 1653, where he published the collection “Deutscher Sinngedichte three thousand” in the same year. In 1648 Ludwig became a member of the Fruitful Society under the name “Der Heilsame” .

In 1656 Ludwig in Kriegheide approved the construction of a Protestant church, which served as a so-called border church for more than 60 communities in the neighboring Duchy of Glogau .

After Ludwig's death, who died in 1663 without descendants, Liegnitz was inherited by the eldest brother Georg III, who, however, followed him in death a year later. He was inherited by the youngest brother Christian, who was able to unite the Liegnitz partial duchies in one hand.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich W. Barthold : History of the fruitful society. Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1848, p. 326 .
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liegnitz, Ludwig IV of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Liegnitz and Brieg (1639–1653)
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Brieg
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1663
Place of death Liegnitz