Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania

Bogislaw XIII. (* August 9, 1544, † March 7, 1606 in Stettin) was Duke of Pomerania.

Life

Bogislaw XIII. was a son of Duke Philip I of Pomerania - Wolgast and his wife Maria of Saxony, the daughter of the Elector John of Saxony. Even as a boy of fourteen, he studied at the University of Greifswald. He was honored in 1559 with the appointment as rector to one year. At first he was co-regent with his brother Duke Johann Friedrich of Pomerania - Wolgast.

In 1569 he was, however, resign from the offices Johann Friedrich Barth and Neuenkamp. In 1582 he founded a princely printing company that gained national importance, including through the 1588 printed in Low German Barth Bible. 1587 he founded the city Franzburg that should compete for his far-reaching plans of him feuding city of Stralsund; but it remained a small country town.

From 1603 until his death he reigned in Pomerania -Stettin, which had fallen to him in accordance with the contract of inheritance Jasenitzer 1569 after the childless death of his two brothers Johann Friedrich ( † 1600) and Barnim X. († 1603). However, he remained in Barth and put his eldest son, Philip II as a governor.

From his first marriage to Clara of Brunswick-Lüneburg, daughter of Francis of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Gifhorn, and his wife Klara, come the representatives of the last generation of the Griffin house. His sons Philip II, Francis II and Bogislaw XIV reigned successively in Szczecin, the latter from 1625 in Wolgast. Franz, Bogislaw XIV and the youngest son Ulrich also ruled intermittently as Bishops of Pomerania in the pen. His daughter Anna von Croy, also Anna of Pomerania, was married to Ernst von Croy. His second marriage to Anne of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg remained childless.

Bogislaw XIII. died in 1606 in Stettin and was buried in the local castle church. He was succeeded in the government of his son Philip II

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