Wartislaw III.

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Wartislaw III. with his wife Sophia, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny , 1598.
Seal of Wartislaw III. - Redrawing by Theodor Pyl .
Shield seal Wartislaw III. 1248–1264 - Drawn from Theodor Pyl's Pomeranian Historical Monuments , 1894

Wartislaw III. (* around 1210 ; † May 17, 1264 ) was a Duke of Pomerania from the Greifenhaus . He ruled the Pomeranian part-duchy of Pomerania-Demmin from around 1226 until his death .

Life

Wartislaw III. was the only son of Duke Casimir II of Pomerania, who ruled in the partial duchy of Pomerania-Demmin. When Duke Casimir II died in December 1219, Wartislaw - born around 1210 - was still quite young. His mother Ingardis, presumably a Danish princess, held the reign for a few years, probably until the mid-1220s. At that time, Pomerania, like the entire southern Baltic region, was still under the sovereignty of Denmark . But the capture of King Waldemar II of Denmark in 1223 and the Danish defeat in the Battle of Bornhöved (1227) broke the supremacy of the Nordic Empire over the Slavic lands. A last raid of the Danes in his country could from Wartislaw III. 1234 be fended off with the help of Lübeck .

Two years later he, whose most frequent residence was the castle near Demmin , the House of Demmin , suffered extensive territorial losses. In the west he lost the land of Zirzipanien in 1236 , that is the landscapes east of the Kummerower See to Güstrow , to the rulership of Rostock . In the same year he recognized the sovereignty of the Margrave of Brandenburg in the Treaty of Kremmen and ceded the states of Stargard , Beseritz and Wustrow , essentially the later Mecklenburg-Strelitz , to him.

Since this time, however, the influx of German settlers to Pomerania has also taken place . In 1236, for the first time, Germans in the duke's entourage are documented. The granting of city rights was a clear sign of the state expansion that was now beginning. Wartislaw III. granted city rights to Demmin (before 1249), Greifswald (1250) and Greifenberg (1262). He also conferred city rights with Bishop Hermann von Cammin to Kolberg (1255) and together with his cousin Duke Barnim I to Stavenhagen (1252), Wolgast (1257) and Wollin (1262). In all of these cases he granted city rights according to Luebian law .

From Wartislaw III. four seal uses are known. The oldest he used from 1225 to 1237, it is a rider's seal with a helmet, shield and banner. It had the inscription: ... + S'Ducis.Worzlai.e.sangvine.Regis.Danorum ... The last addition goes back to his mother, who came from the Danish royal family. He used the second seal from 1238 to 1244, it was also a rider's seal. The third seal was a shield seal that he used from 1248 to 1260. This is also known as the seal of the city of Greifswald, which he granted city rights in 1250 and which then copied his seal. He carried the last seal from 1254 to 1264, also a shield seal. The last three seals used the reference to his seat of government in Demmin, so ... Dimin ... and ... Diminensis ...

Grave tablet of the ducal family in Eldena monastery with Wartislaw

Duke Wartislaw III was married. with a Sophia whose origin is not known for sure. Possibly she was the daughter of Duke Wladislaw Odonicz of Greater Poland and Hedwig of Pomerellen. In 1264, Wartislaw III died without leaving any sons, so that the Demmin line of the Dukes of Pomerania died out with him. His cousin Barnim I , who lived in Szczecin , took over his legacy . In the Treaty of Landin 1250, the latter succeeded in repealing the agreement made in Kremmen in 1236, according to which Wartislaw's territory should fall to Brandenburg after his unherited death. Wartislaw III. was buried in the Eldena monastery near Greifswald .

His widow Sophia probably received Wollin as a personal item. She probably married a second time after 1265 with a Pribislaw de Slawia .

See also

literature

  • Dietmar Lucht: Duke Wartislaw III. from Pomerania . In: Baltic Studies , New Series, Vol. 53, 1967, pp. 13–15.
  • Edward Rymar : Rodowód Książąt pomorskich , Szczecin 2005, pp. 151–154.
  • Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Publications of the regional historical research center for Pomerania, series 1, vol. 5. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1937, pp. 53–55.
  • Dirk Schleinert : Pomeranian dukes. Portrait of the griffins. Hinstorff, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01479-2 , pp. 38-40.

Web links

Commons : Wartislaw III.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Lucht: The urban policy of Duke Barnim I of Pomerania 1220-1278 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, Vol. 10. Cologne Graz 1965, page 8 ff
  2. ↑ Theodor Pyl , Pommersche Geschichtsdenkmäler, Volume 7 - The development of the Pomeranian coat of arms, Greifswald, 1894, pages 128-132
personal data
SURNAME Wartislaw III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1210
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1264