Sigismund August (Mecklenburg)

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Sigismund August von Mecklenburg (born November 11, 1560 in Schwerin , † September 5, 1600 in Ivenack ) was Duke of Mecklenburg .

Life

The youngest son, Duke Johann Albrechts I of Mecklenburg, was named after Sigismund II August . He was excluded in his father's will because of his "stupid" spirit, but received an annual pension of 6,000 guilders and the rights of use for the offices and city of Strelitz, Mirow and Ivenack , which had come to him through the secularization of the existing monasteries. This regulation should introduce the Primogenitur law in Mecklenburg . His brother Johann inherited his father after his death in 1576. The uncle Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg became Sigismund August's guardian. In his name he signed the Concord Formula of 1577 and the Concord Book of 1580.

After the death of Johann VII on March 22, 1592, Sigismund August and Duke Ulrich took over the regency for the sons of Johann VII, namely Adolf Friedrich I and Johann Albrecht II. In 1593, Duke Sigismund August married Clara Maria von Pommern, who Daughter of Bogislaw XIII. However, the marriage did not produce any offspring. After returning from a bathing trip to Karlsbad , he died at his home in Ivenack and was buried in Schwerin Cathedral.

literature

  • Friedrich Wigger : Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Family Tables of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg (Essay 2, Vol. 50), Yearbook XIII. Schwerin 1885, p. 177
  • G. Duncker: The second Mecklenburg main division . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . Volume 73, 1908, pp. 182f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See BSLK , p. 16 and p. 763.
personal data
SURNAME Sigismund August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mecklenburg, Sigismund August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Co-regent of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1600
Place of death Ivenack