Dispositio Achillea

As Dispositio Achillea ( Achillea also Constitutio, dt Achilleisches House bill ) is called the testamentary definition, with the Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Hohenzollern in 1473 regulated the ranking among his heirs.

In the Dispositio Achillea certain Albrecht Achilles his eldest son John Cicero as his successor in the whole and undivided Mark Brandenburg. This was dictated by the principles of the Golden Bull, because there the indivisibility of all electorates in 1356 was laid down binding ( in this case, the Mark Brandenburg). The other two sons Albrecht Achilles ', and Friedrich Siegmund, were heirs to the Frankish margraviates Brandenburg -Ansbach and Brandenburg- Kulmbach (or later Brandenburg -Bayreuth ) determines the allocation of the two principalities was drawn there. Any other male descendants of Albrecht Achilles ( but were not born ), but should not receive a land more and instead possibly pursue a clerical career.

At the time of their creation, the first certain dispositions Achillea actually only the Erbordnung among the three sons of the former Marquis. However, over time it has become a well-respected succession principle of Hohenzollern in 1541 and its associated specifications with the Regensburger sharing agreement were recognized as binding law of House Hohenzollern dynasty.

The central element of Dispositio Achillea was now in the house right of Hohenzollern ( and not only - as hitherto - in the Golden Bull ) prescribed principle of the indivisibility of the Mark Brandenburg. At the same time, the foundation stone for development was laid with her, which eventually led to a progressive separation of the Mark Brandenburg of the current head of the Hohenzollern lands in Franconia. These were formed with the two margravates Brandenburg -Ansbach and Brandenburg- Kulmbach (or later -Bayreuth ) two separate territories out that were only reunited in 1792 with the Mark (or their Prussian successor state ).