Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania

Elizabeth of Brandenburg (1425 – after 13 January 1465) was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and marriage Duchess of Pomerania.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania

Elizabeth of Brandenburg
Born	1425
Died	after 13 January 1465
Noble family	House of Hohenzollern
Spouse(s)	Joachim I of Pomerania-Stettin Wartislaw X, Duke of Pomerania-Barth
Issue	Otto III Swantibor V Ertmar
Father	John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Mother	Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg

Life

Elizabeth was a daughter of the Margrave John the Alchemist of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1406–1464) from his marriage to Barbara (1405–1465), daughter of Duke Rudolf III of Saxe-Wittenberg. Elizabeth's father renounced his rights to the succession in Brandenburg and instead received the Franconian possessions of the House of Hohenzollern. Her sisters were Queen Dorothea of Denmark and Marchioness Barbara of Mantua.

She married on 27 August 1440 with Duke Joachim I of Pomerania-Stettin (1427–1451). The marriage was meant to seal a treaty between Brandenburg and Pomerania.^[1] Joachim died of the plague in Szczecin, after eleven years of marriage. He had one son: Otto III of Pomerania-Stettin.

On 5 March 1454, she married her second husband, Duke Wartislaw X of Pomerania-Rügen (1435–1478). In 1464, her father and all three of her sons died. After the death of Otto III, a war erupted between Pomerania and Brandenburg about the inheritance of the Stettin branch of the family.

Her second marriage was a very unhappy one. She felt that her husband had ...planned to kill her, and take her life and limb and, although it would be unchristian and pitiable, revoke her interests and pensions. Because of great distress and poverty, her uncle gave her Lippehne and Berlinchen instead of her father's Arnswalde.

For Frederick, the fate of his niece was the motivation to break off negotiations with Wartislaw about Stettin and push through his claims on Pomerania. After mediation by Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Stargard, Wartislaw accepted Pomerania as a fief of the Electorate of Brandenburg.

Issue

Elisabeth had a son from her first marriage to Joachim:

• Otto III (1444–1464), Duke of Pomerania-Stettin.

From her second marriage with Wartislaw, she had two sons:

• Swantibor (1454–1464)
• Ertmar (1455–1464)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania

16. John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg 8. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg 17. Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen 4. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg 18. Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen 9. Elisabeth of Meissen 19. Mathilde of Bavaria 2. John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 20. Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria 10. Frederick, Duke of Bavaria 21. Elisabeth of Sicily 5. Elisabeth of Bavaria 22. Bernabò Visconti 11. Maddalena Visconti 23. Beatrice Regina della Scala 1. Elisabeth of Brandenburg 24. Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 12. Wenceslas I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 25. Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin 6. Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 26. Francesco I da Carrara 13. Cecilia di Carrara 27. Fina Buzzacarini 3. Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg 28. Wenceslaus I, Duke of Legnica 14. Rupert I of Legnica 29. Anna of Cieszyn 7. Barbara of Legnica 30. Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań 15. Hedwig of Sagan 31. Anna of Płock

References

• Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: Geschichte von Rügen und Pommern, Band 4, F. Perthes, 1843, p. 289 ff.

External links

• http://www.ruegenwalde.com/greifen/war-10/war-10.htm

External links

1. Johann Jakob Sell: Geschichte des Herzogthums Pommern, Flittner, 1819, p. 62