Barnim XI, Duke of Pomerania
Barnim IX. (* December 2, 1501; † November 2, 1573 in Stettin. According other count Barnim XI) was Duke of Pomerania -Stettin.
Life
Born as the son Bogislaw X and his second wife Anna, a daughter of the Polish king Casimir IV, he studied in Wittenberg and took over after his father's death, together with his brother Georg, the government in the Duchy of Pomerania. Due to claims of Brandenburg Pomerania, were the only two at the Diet of Augsburg on June 26, 1530, the imperial fiefs. To be able to resist the demands of Brandenburg, Barnim married on February 2, 1525 Anna of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( 1502-1568 ), daughter of Henry I, and concluded a defensive alliance with the House Guelph. The brothers fell out gradually from each other. When Philip I., the son of George, took the place of his father, a division of the country into Pomerania - Wolgast Pomeranian and Pomerania -Stettin was decided on 21 October 1532 and initially set at eight years. This Barnim of Pomerania -Stettin received. The Diocese of Pomerania shared the Dukes.
1534 the decision was made to yield to the demands of the subjects and perform an improvement of the Ecclesiastical conditions. To this end, we convened a parliament at the Treptow a R. and invited Johannes Bugenhagen at Wittenberg as representatives of the Protestant party to a to draw up a church order for Pomerania. Thereby accruing monastery and church lands were divided by the Dukes, and there was the ducal Pädagogium in Szczecin 1543.
As an approximation to the Protestant side was completed, the Dukes were the Smalcald League in April 1536. After eight years of existence of this division was strengthened. As the Smalcald War broke out, the lost, the representatives of the Smalcald League against the Emperor Charles V, they were in an awkward position because they were enemies of the Emperor yes. Sanctions, but they could prevent the payment of a fine. After the death of Philip Barnim led up to the age of majority whose son into office in Pomerania - Wolgast on. Since he was without male offspring, he transferred in the contract of inheritance of Jasenitz on February 3, 1569 Johann Friedrich the seat of government in Szczecin and Ernst Ludwig the seat of government Wolgast, with whom the minor nephew Casimir an entitlement was granted to the bishop's throne in Pomerania, which you already the Duke family had bound.
Children
- Marie (1527-1554), ∞ on 16 July 1544 with Otto IV, Count of Schauenburg Pinneberg
- Dorothea (1528-1558), ∞ on July 8, 1554 by Johann I Graf von Mansfeld- Hinterort
- Anna (1531-1592), ∞ on May 16, 1557 by Karl von Anhalt, from August 25, 1566 ∞ with Henry VI. Plauen, from September 23, 1576 with Jobst III. Count of Barby - Mühlingen
- Sibylla (1541-1564)
- Bogislaw (XII ) ( to August 27, 1542 - before September 15, 1542 )