Wartislaw VIII.

Wartislaw VIII (* 1373 ; † August 20 or 23, 1415 ) was a Duke of Pomerania from the Greifenhaus . He ruled in Pomerania-Wolgast from 1394 together with his brother Barnim VI. , after his death in 1405 alone.

Life

Wartislaw VIII. Was the second son of Duke Wartislaw VI. from Pommern-Wolgast. He was initially intended for the clergy, at the age of 14 he was awarded the Archdeaconate of Tribsees . But in 1393 he left the clergy to get married. In order to receive the necessary dispensation , according to later tradition, he is said to have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . It is possible that he and his cousin Wartislaw VII left Pomerania-Stolp in August 1392 , but he had to break off the trip due to illness.

After the death of his father Wartislaw VI. In 1394 Wartislaw VIII ruled together with his older brother Barnim VI. in Pommern-Wolgast. During their joint reign they sometimes took part in the fight against piracy together with the Hanseatic League , at times Duke Barnim VI was active. but also himself as a pirate, which led to a tense relationship with the Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Order . Barnim VI. died in 1405.

After the death of his brother, Wartislaw VIII led the government in Pomerania-Wolgast alone, also as a guardian for his brother's two sons, Wartislaw IX. (* 1400) and Barnim VII. (* Around 1403/1405). Wartislaw VIII reached an agreement with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in March 1406 and went on a pilgrimage to Rome . A gold rose that Pope Gregory XII gave him . there, gave Wartislaw on his return to the Pudagla monastery , where she was soon venerated as a miracle worker. It was later destroyed by Abbot Heinrich (ruled 1479–1493) because it had become an object of idolatrous worship.

During the time of his reign, the Papenbrand thom Sunde fell , in which an angry crowd burned three priests in Stralsund in 1407. In 1409 he brokered an atonement agreement, which could not finally settle the matter.

In the dispute between the Dukes of Pomerania-Stettin , i.e. Swantibor I and his sons Otto II and Casimir V , with the Hohenzollern Friedrich I , who ruled the Margraviate of Brandenburg , Duke Wartislaw VIII was close to the latter. He made an alliance with him and in 1413 engaged his son Wartislaw to Friedrich's daughter Margarethe; but Wartislaw died before his father in 1414/1415. Wartislaw VIII traveled with Friedrich to the Council of Constance , where he was enfeoffed by King Sigismund . However, Wartislaw soon returned to Pomerania due to unrest, so that he could not take part in the further course of the council, especially in the burning of the heretic Johann Huss .

Duke Wartislaw VIII died on August 20, 1415. He is buried in the St. Petri Church in Wolgast . After his death, his widow Agnes led the government for Wartislaw's sons Barnim VIII and Swantibor II, as well as for Wartislaw IX, with a regency council attached to her . and Barnim VII , the sons of his late brother, until Wartislaw IX, the eldest of the four, took over the government in 1417.

Marriage and offspring

Duke Wartislaw VIII married Agnes , a daughter of Duke Erich IV of Saxony-Lauenburg . The marriage had four children:

• Wartislaw (* around 1398; † 1414/1415)
• Barnim VIII. (* Around 1406; † 1451) ∞ Anna von Wunstorf
• Swantibor II. (IV.) (* Around 1408/1410; † 1432/1436)
• Sophia († after 1453) ∞ Wilhelm , Herr zu Werle († 1436)

His widow Agnes died in 1435 and is buried in the Pudagla monastery .

References

See also

• Tribe list of griffins
• List of the Dukes of Pomerania

literature

• Adolf Häckermann :  Barnim VI. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 77-79.
• Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 1. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919. (Reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 )
• 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, p. 95.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Claus Conrad: Ducal weakness and urban power in the second half of the 14th and 15th centuries. In: Werner Buchholz (ed.): German history in Eastern Europe. Pomerania . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8 , p. 150.
2. ^ So: Joachim Zdrenka: The pilgrimages of the Pomeranian dukes to the Holy Land in the years 1392/1993 and 1406/1407. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 81 NF, 1995, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 7-17.
3. ^ Joachim Zdrenka: The pilgrimages of the Pomeranian dukes to the Holy Land in the years 1392/1993 and 1406/1407. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 81 NF, 1995, ISSN  0067-3099 , p. 15.
4. ↑ Max Bär:  Wartislaw IX. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 212 f.