Siegmund (Brandenburg-Kulmbach)

Siegmund von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born September 27, 1468 in Ansbach ; † February 26, 1495 ibid) was Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1486 to 1495.

Life

Siegmund was the third son of the Brandenburg margrave and elector Albrecht Achilles (1414–1486) from his second marriage to Anna (1436–1512), daughter of the elector Friedrich II of Saxony .

After the death of his brothers, his father had united all of the Hohenzollern's holdings in Brandenburg and Franconia and, with the Dispositio Achillea in 1473, regulated the distribution of his inheritance to his sons. When Albrecht died in 1486, Siegmund's half-brother from Albrecht's first marriage, Johann Cicero , received the Mark Brandenburg including the electoral dignity , while the Franconian possessions, namely the Principality of Kulmbach and Ansbach, were drawn between Siegmund and his brother Friedrich . Siegmund received Kulmbach and Friedrich Ansbach accordingly.

Siegmund, whose residence was the Plassenburg in Kulmbach , only rarely appeared as ruler in Franconia. He was in foreign military service, mostly staying at the court of King Maximilian I , whom he served as field captain. Since Friedrich had the more prestigious titular dignity of a Margrave of Brandenburg, his principality Kulmbach is also called " Margrave Brandenburg-Kulmbach ".

He died unmarried and without descendants in Ansbach in 1495 during a visit to his brother Friedrich, who became his successor. Siegmund was buried in Heilsbronn Monastery.

literature

• Samuel Buchholtz: Attempt at a history of the Churmark Brandenburg , 1767, p. 221

Individual proof

1. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer : The Hohenzollern. Vol. 1. Beginnings, state state and monarchical autocracy until 1740 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-17-012096-9 , p. 103

predecessor	Office	successor
Albrecht Achilles	Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 1486–1495	Friedrich II.