Wartislaw X.

Wartislaw X.

Wartislaw X. with his two wives, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny, 1598.

Wartislaw X. von Pommern-Wolgast (* around 1435 , † December 17, 1478 ) was the second son of Duke Wartislaw IX. and Sophias von Sachsen-Lauenburg . He was married twice. On March 5, 1454 he married Elisabeth von Brandenburg , the widow of Duke Joachim the Elder. J. von Pommern-Stettin and daughter of Margrave Johann der Neumark, who died shortly after the beginning of 1465 and with whom he had sons Swantibor and Ertmar, who both died young of the plague in 1464 . In his second marriage, Wartislaw X. was married to Magdalena von Mecklenburg, widow of Count Burkhard von Barby. This marriage remained childless.

In 1458 , Wartislaw X and his older brother Erich II succeeded their late father in the rule. He soon got into a dispute with his brother over the inheritance and succession in the Duchy of Stolp and Rügenwalde in the Pomeranian region . Erich had the Hereditary Princess Sophia, daughter of Duke Bogislaw IX. , married and after the death of Erich von Pommern wanted to rule there alone as the last Duke of Hinterpommern in 1459 . Third, Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg took part in the guardianship of the underage Stettin Duke Otto III. in the dispute. The surprising death of the Duke of Stettin, who also died in 1464 of the plague that raged in the country, prevented more serious disputes . The brothers were united by the claims that Brandenburg made on Pomerania-Stettin immediately .

In the following conflicts with Brandenburg, known as the War of the Stettin Succession , Wartislaw X showed himself to be an irreconcilable opponent of the Hohenzollern . When his first wife, who came from the Hohenzollern family, left him, the other side used this for broad-based propaganda against the Pomeranian Duke. A provisional solution to the conflict with Brandenburg could only be achieved by his nephew Bogislaw X. after his death in 1479 with the Peace of Prenzlau , not least because of Wartislaw's rigid stance . In essence, however, this peace only confirmed the agreements made in the first Prenzlau peace treaty of 1472 , which Wartislaw X had also agreed to. The most important points were that the Wolgast dukes were allowed to keep Pomerania-Stettin , but at the same time had to take their rule from Brandenburg as a fief. Wartislaw's resistance was primarily directed against this last provision. It was left to his nephew Bogislaw X., who after Wartislaw's death united all the Pomeranian rulers for almost fifty years, to take action against it in the end. The final settlement was made by his sons Georg I and Barnim IX. 1529 named after Grimnitz Castle in the Treaty of Grimnitz . Wartislaw X. was buried in Neuenkamp Monastery , from which the city of Franzburg later emerged.

literature

• Max Bär :  Wartislav X. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 213 f.

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