Elizabeth of Brandenburg (1425 – after 13 January 1465) 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 squ ...

by birth and marriage Duchess of Pomerania.

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

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. Her sisters were Queen

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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.Johann Jakob Sell: ''Geschichte des Herzogthums Pommern'', Flittner, 1819, p. 62 Joachim died of the

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, 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 Duke Wartislaw X of Pomerania (1435 – 17 December 1478) was the second son of Duke Wartislaw IX of Pomerania and his wife, Sophia of Saxe-Lauenburg. Wartislaw married twice. On 5 March 1454, he married Elizabeth of Brandenburg, the widow ...

of Pomerania-Rügen (1435–1478). In 1464, her father and all three of her sons died. After the death of Otto III, a

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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

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of the Electorate of Brandenburg.

Issue

Elisabeth had a son from her first marriage to Joachim: *

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(1444–1464), Duke of Pomerania-Stettin. From her second marriage with Wartislaw, she had two sons: * Swantibor (1454–1464) * Ertmar (1455–1464)

Ancestry

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

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