Barbara of Brandenburg

Barbara of Brandenburg (* May 30, 1464 in Ansbach, Ansbach † September 4, 1515 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of succession Glogau and Queen of Bohemia.

Life

Barbara was a daughter of the Elector of Brandenburg Albrecht Achilles (1414-1486) from his second marriage to Anna (1436-1512), daughter of the Elector Frederick of Saxony.

As an eight year old she was in Berlin on October 11, 1472 with the much older Glogau Duke Heinrich XI. ( 1429/35-1476 ) betrothed 1474 married to him. Only two years later, however, the much older Duke died. In his will he appointed his wife to the heir, which led to years of Glogau succession dispute. Even King Vladislav II of Bohemia and King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary made ​​a claim to the inheritance. At the end of the succession dispute, in which Barbara, who had the stands on their side, had especially against the cousin of her deceased husband, Hans von Sagan, enforce, reached the Duchy of Crossen with Bobersberg, Züllichau and Sommerfeld in the Electorate of Brandenburg and was of Silesia detached. Those territories had been pledged by Duke Heinrich Albrecht Achilles against Barbara's dowry of 50,000 florins.

For his daughter Albrecht Achilles Otto Schenk appointed by the Landesverweser. Just six months later, the twelve year-old widow was married on August 20, 1476 by ​​procurationem with King Vladislav II of Bohemia, who wanted to move in the duchy of Glogau as ceased fief and had renewed with a Erbvereinigung Brandenburg.

Due to the events of war but Barbara was unable to travel to her husband first. Later, the unconsummated marriage for Vladislav was annoying because he wanted to gain by marrying the widow of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, Beatrix of Aragon, the crown of Hungary, so that he no longer wanted to come to his bride and aimed at the separation. Brandenburg's envoy in this matter, Georg von Stein, and Christoph von Vitzthum, summoned the king: "Your Marggraf is looking ', but he should be Weysheyt nit try in me that I were not in the things resist Ere. " Enraged, called Albrecht Achilles 1481 compensation payment and strove with the bishops of Bamberg and Würzburg to make the marriage union unsolvable, yes he even offered his first 10 - year-old daughter Dorothea as a substitute.

Finally, Barbara bat against the wishes of her family the Pope for the dissolution of their marriage. At the same time, she promised the knight Conrad of Heideck marriage. In response to their self-will Barbara was imprisoned by her family on the Plass castle until Heideck broke off the engagement. Five years later, on April 7, 1500 in a solemn bull of Pope Alexander VI. the dissolution of her marriage to King Vladislav.

Since then, there is nothing recorded more by Barbara of Brandenburg, they probably stayed on the Plass castle.

Reception

Barbara of Brandenburg was used as a template for the historical novel The Margravine of Sabine Weigand. This biography was processed in large parts; only the action was transferred to the time of Prince Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg- Kulmbach.