Bogusław IX

Bogislaw IX. (C. 1407/1410; † December 7, 1446 ) was Duke of Pomerania - Wolgast - Stolp. His cousin, Eric of Pomerania tried in vain to enforce him as heir to the throne in the Nordic kingdoms of the Kalmar Union.

Life

Bogislaw IX. was the son of the reigning in the Duchy of Pomerania - Wolgast Pomeranian part - Stolp Bogislaw VIII and his wife Sophie von Holstein. After Bogislaw VIII died in 1418, initially led Duchess Sophie to about 1425 the government for the young Bogislaw IX ..

The young Duke and his mother worked at first, begun under Bogislaw VIII Camminer diocese dispute. In this context, both of which were banned, Emperor Sigismund in 1434 imposed on both the imperial ban. The dispute was settled through the mediation of their powerful relatives Eric of Pomerania, which was in 1397 crowned King of the northern kingdoms. Erich mediated an agreement, which regulates the election of bishops in the Diocese of Pomerania with a right of confirmation of the Pomeranian Dukes and the screen bailiwick of the Dukes has been written about the pen. At the same time the diocese was his claim to imperial immediacy quietly dropped. For the Diocese of Pomerania acted Bishop Siegfried II of book, who had previously been Eric's chancellor.

In Bogislaw reign were also 1432/1438, the threat posed by the Hussites and the occurrence of Waldensian heretics.

King Eric, who was childless, tried his cousin Prince Bogusław IX. enforce as his successor in the Nordic kingdoms. He entrusted him with several locks, the island of Funen and probably also the island of Zealand. But refused the Danish Imperial Council in 1436 its consent to such successor and called instead 1438 Christoph von der Pfalz into the country. When the Imperial Parliament in 1439 even King Erich himself deposed and 1440 Christoph elected king, Bogislaw prospects were destroyed on the throne.

On December 7, 1446 Bogislaw IX died. after a long illness and was buried in the monastery Marienkron. Since Bogislaw had no sons, took over after his death his widow Maria first of Mazovia, the Government of Pomerania - Wolgast - Stolp, then the dethroned King Eric, who had returned home in 1449 to Pomerania.

Marriage and issue

King Eric tried a daughter of the Polish king Władysław II Jagiello as the wife of Prince Bogusław IX. to win. This was not yet married Bogislaw IX. Finally, in 1432 in Poznan Mary of Masovia, a daughter of the Duke Ziemowit IV of Masovia and Alexandra of Lithuania, a sister of the Polish king.

From this marriage two daughters were born: Sophia (* around 1434, † 1497 ), married her ruling in Vorpommern relatives Duke Erich II Alexandra died, probably in his early years, in 1451. .