Wartislaw IX.

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Wartislaw IX. from Pommern-Wolgast
Statue of Wartislaw IX. at the Rubenow monument in Greifswald (1856)
Duke Wartislaw IX. hands over to Dr. Heinrich Rubenow the scepter , monumental painting by Otto Heyden (1856)

Wartislaw IX. (* around 1400 ; † around Easter 1457 in Wolgast ) was a Duke of Pomerania . He ruled in Pommern-Wolgast from 1417 until his death in 1457.

Life

Wartislaw was probably the oldest son of Duke Barnim VI. and his wife, who is probably Veronika von Hohenzollern . As Duke Barnim VI. Already died in 1405, his brother Duke Wartislaw VIII took over the guardianship of the young Wartislaw and his brother Barnim VII. After Wartislaw VIII's death in 1415 the government and the guardianship passed over the brothers and the sons of Wartislaw VIII, Barnim VIII. And Swantibor II. , To his widow Agnes, to whom the estates provided a Regency Council under Cord Bonow .

Also in 1415, Duke Wartislaw IX. first appeared as an independently acting prince. On May 31, 1417, Duke Wartislaw IX. for himself and his brother and their cousins ​​Barnim VIII and Swantibor II from King Sigismund in Constance the enfeoffment with the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast.

In 1420 the hereditary land marshal of Pommern-Wolgast, Degener Buggenhagen , before the eyes of Wartislav IX. slain by Henneke von Behr , the favorite of the Duchess Agnes. The reason was that Buggenhagen had previously killed another favorite of the Duchess, Cord Bonow , in 1417 or 1419 . Henneke von Behr was persecuted and, according to chronical records, he either sank while trying to escape from Usedom Castle or was later captured in his Nustrow Castle and executed in Stralsund . Probably under the impression of these events, Wartislaw IX came to an agreement. 1421 with the cities and the nobility of his country on the establishment of so-called Quatember Courts to secure the legal order.

Wartislaw IX already divided in 1425. the rule in Western Pomerania north of the Peene with his brother Barnim VII and his cousins Barnim VIII and Swantibor III. However, since he survived all of them, he was able to reunite Pomerania-Wolgast west of the Swine at the end of his rule in 1451.

Outwardly, like his Stettin cousins, he had to deal with the ambitions for power of the Hohenzollerns who had ruled Brandenburg since 1411/17 . For him it was particularly about the pledged possessions of Torgelow and Pasewalk , which the Wolgast dukes had held since 1369. In the peace of 1448 Wartislaw was able to secure these possessions. In the so-called Golden Privilege of 1452, he made extensive concessions to the cities under the leadership of the mighty Stralsund, here in particular the mayor Otto Voge .

Duke Wartislaw IX earned lasting fame. through the sovereign support of the founding of the University of Greifswald in 1456. Only six months after the ceremonial opening of the "alma mater gryphiswaldensis" he died, but had significantly secured its existence with numerous donations and legal awards.

Marriage and offspring

Duke Wartislaw IX. was married to Sophia von Sachsen-Lauenburg , probably the daughter of Duke Erich IV. von Sachsen-Lauenburg and his wife Sophie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. She died in 1462 and was buried in Wolgast.

The marriage had four children:

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SURNAME Wartislaw IX.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke Wartislaw IX. from Pommern-Wolgast
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1457
Place of death Wolgast