Margaret of Brandenburg (1449 / 50–1489)

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Margarete von Brandenburg, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny, 1598.

Margarete von Brandenburg (* 1449/50; † 1489 ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania .

Life

Margarete was the second daughter of Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg (1413–1471) from his marriage to Katharina (1421–1476), daughter of Elector Friedrich I of Saxony . Of Friedrich's children, only she and her older sister Dorothea survived their father.

She married on September 20, 1477 in Prenzlau, Duke Bogislaw X of Pomerania (1454-1523). As early as May 1, 1476, the marriage of Bogislaw and the elder Margarete had been decided within the framework of peace negotiations, the war between Brandenburg and Pomerania that began in 1474. The marriage was a nuisance to Bogislaw; the dowry , which was very small, was never paid. One year after the marriage, with the death of his uncle Wartislaw X. , Bogislaw X. became the sole Duke of Pomerania. With the uncle of his wife Albrecht Achilles , Bogislaw concluded the Peace of Prenzlau in 1479 and took the entire duchy from him as a fief.

Margarete's marriage remained childless and she was cast out, accused of infidelity by her husband. This led to political tension with Kurbrandenburg; the elector demanded the bride and groom of his niece Margarete back. Bogislaw, in turn, accused the Hohenzollern House of having given him a barren princess as his wife in order to inherit Pomerania. In the peace negotiations in 1479, Bogislaw finally waived the payment of his wife's property.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of Rügen and Pomerania , Volume 4, F. Perthes, 1843
  • Wilhelm Ferdinand Gadebusch: Chronicle of the island of Usedom , W. Dietze, 1863, p. 96

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz: Handbook of the history of the sovereign states of the German Confederation , Volume 1, Weidmann, 1818, p. 146
  2. ^ Peter Treichel: 800 years of Pomerania and its neighbors , 2009, p. 112
  3. ^ F. Voigt: History of the Brandenburg-Prussian State , F. Dummler, 1860, p. 161
personal data
SURNAME Margaret of Brandenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margaretha of Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH 1449 or 1450
DATE OF DEATH 1489