Barnim V, Duke of Pomerania

Barnim V. (c. 1369, † 1402 or 1403 ) was a Duke of Pomerania - Stolp.

Life

Barnim V. was the youngest son of the Duke of Pomerania - Stolp Bogislaw V. and his second wife Adelheid of Brunswick- Grubenhagen, a daughter of Duke Ernst I. After the death of his father, in 1373, he got together with his brothers Wartislaw VII and Bogislaw VIII under the guardianship of her half-brother Casimir IV

After Casimir's death in 1377 the brothers jointly acquired control of the Duchy part Stolp in Pomerania. Barnim studied at the University of Prague, where he was enrolled in 1387 at the Faculty of Law of Canon Law, so obviously targeted at that time a ministry to. 1392 he returned to Pomerania.

The policy of the brothers Wartislaw VII, VIII and Bogislaw Barnim V. fluctuated between Poland and the Teutonic Order. As they get Dobriner country was denied by the Polish king, who had heard Casimir, they allied themselves with the Teutonic Order. However, in 1390 they moved again to the side of Poland against the Teutonic Order and Wartislaw VII made ​​on November 2, 1390 the Polish king Władysław II Jagiello fealty.

Wartislaw VII was 1394/1395 murdered. Now the brothers Bogislaw Barnim VIII and V. reigned jointly. Barnim marriage a Lithuanian princess in 1396 shows his approach to Lithuania and Poland. Discrepancies between the two brothers led in 1402 to the agreement of a division, should get the area around Stolp, Pommern Schlawe and at the Barnim. Barnim but died soon after 1402/1403, so that the agreed division had no consequences. Now reigned Bogislaw VIII alone in Pomerania - Stolp. Where Duke Barnim V. was buried is unknown.

Marriage

Barnim 1396 married Hedwig of Lithuania ( † after 1405) a relative of the Grand Duke Witold of Lithuania. The marriage remained childless.