Agnes of Brandenburg (born 17 July 1584 in

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; died 26 March 1629 in

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) was a Princess of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

by birth and by marriage successively Duchess of

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

and of

Saxe-Lauenburg The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (german: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called ''Niedersachsen'' (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries), was a ''reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296–1803 and again from 1814–1876 in the extreme sou ...

Life

Agnes, a member of the house of Hohenzollern, was a daughter of the Elector John George of Brandenburg (1525–1598) from his third marriage with

Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (15 September 1563 – 8 November 1607) was Electress of Brandenburg by marriage to John George, Elector of Brandenburg. Early life Elizabeth was a daughter of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (1536–1585), from ...

(1563–1607), daughter of Prince Joachim Ernest of Anhalt. On 25 June 1604 in Berlin, she married her first husband, Duke Philip Julius of Pomerania-Wolgast (1584–1625). The pair resided at

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. A

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at Udars on the island of

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was named after her: ''Agnisenhof''. In 1615, Elisabeth was involved, at the request of her husband, in the financing of a

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. After Philip Julius's death, Agnes lived on her ''

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'', the

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of Barth. Dubslaff Christoph von Eickstedt auf Rothenklempenow, who had been adviser to her husband, served as her privy counsellor and captain. Elisabeth was married again on 9 September 1628, at Schloss Barth, to the ten years younger Duke

Francis Charles of Saxe-Lauenburg Francis Charles of Saxe-Lauenburg (born: 2 May 1594; died: 30 November 1660 in Neuhaus) was a prince of Saxe-Lauenburg and a general during the Thirty Years' War. Life Francis Charles was a son of the Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg (1547� ...

(1594–1660), who was a general in the imperial army. With this second marriage, she lost her rights to Barth. However, Francis Charles persuaded

Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein () (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein ( cs, Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Th ...

to force Duke Bogislaw XIV to allow her to keep Barth until her death.Johann Samuel Ersch: ''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge'', vol. 48, J. f. Gleditsch, 1848, p. 95 Both of her marriages were childless.

Footnotes

References

* Samuel Buchholtz: ''Versuch einer Geschichte der Churmark Brandenburg'', 1767, p. 490
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* http://www.ruegenwalde.com/greifen/phijul/phijul.htm Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg House of Hohenzollern 17th-century German people 1584 births 1629 deaths Pomeranian nobility People from Berlin Daughters of monarchs Remarried royal consorts {{Germany-duchess-stub