George III of Brieg
George III. of Brieg ( Czech Jiří II Břežko - Lehnický, Polish Jerzy III Brzeski; born September 4, 1611 Brieg, † July 4, 1664 ibid ) was 1637-1639 governor of Brieg and then to 1653 and in Community regency with his brothers Ludwig Christian Duke of Brieg. After the 1653 partition of an estate made him fell to Brieg, which he ruled until his death alone. 1663-1664, he was also Duke of Liegnitz, which he had inherited in 1663 by his brother Ludwig. After the death of Duke Henry Wenzel von Bern city in 1639 he held the office of the Regional Governor of Upper Silesia.
Origin and family
George III. was the eldest son of Duke Johann Brieger Christian and his first wife Dorothea Sybille, who was a daughter of the Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg.
On February 23, 1638 he married in Bern city with Sophie Catherine ( 1601-1659 ), a daughter of Charles II, Duke of Münsterberg and Elisabeth Magdalena of Brieg. Elisabeth Magdalena was a sister of George's grandfather Joachim Friedrich and thus his second cousin. This marriage came from Dorothea Elisabeth (1646-1691), who married 1663, Prince Henry of Nassau- Dillenburg on October 13.
On October 19, 1660 married George III. second wife Elisabeth Marie Charlotte of the Palatinate- simmering (1638-1664), daughter of Prince Ludwig Philipp of the Palatinate simmering and niece of former Czech King Frederick V of the Palatinate, who died two months before George. This marriage remained childless.
Life
After fleeing his father Johann Georg Christian in 1633 to Thorn and his younger brother Louis IV, who were on studying abroad were ordered there, where they should await further developments. After July 11, 1634, the Protestant Estates the absent Duke Johann Christian director of the Silesian prince chose the day, the family returned to Brieg. In the same year George was sent as ranking highest part of a delegation from his father to negotiate to Dresden. When the father beginning in January 1635 went again into exile in Thorn, he let George and his younger brother Louis back in Brieg.
To his son George III. to secure the Principality Brieg, said Johann Christian Thorn from the Emperor Ferdinand II gave written submission with which he repeated in the required form on September 20, 1635. In his place, George was allowed to take the vow hand with the Emperor. Through the work done homage Johann Christian was able to keep his duchy Brieg, whose administration he now his son Georg transferred. 1637 he appointed this also to his governor.
After the death of his father Johann Georg Christian in 1639 inherited III. and his two younger brothers, Louis IV and the Duchy of Christian Brieg and Ohlau but which has been bequeathed assigned to her mother as jointure. They ruled their possessions first together. A division they refused initially, as their relatively small inheritance was additionally burdened with a severance package for the foreclosed from following siblings of the second marriage of the father. Only after them 1653 after the death of her childless deceased uncle Georg Rudolf the Duchy of Legnica with Wohlau devolved, they divided the property. George received Brieg, Ludwig Legnica and Christian Wohlau and Ohlau.
Already in 1649 George was taken by Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt- Dessau in the Fruitbearing society. The ceremony was also attended by Friedrich Logau, of the court of George's brother Louis IV served as Councilor.
After 1660 all three brothers were still without male issue, to George III tried. at his sovereign, the Bohemian King Leopold I, an extension of the right of succession on the daughters, but received no confirmation of this.
After his brother Ludwig 's death in 1663 George III inherited. the Duchy of Legnica. After only a year later made death Brzeg and Legnica fell to the youngest brother, Christian, who was thus able to combine the Liegnitzschen principalities in one hand. The Office of the Provincial Governor was transferred to the Breslau Bishop Sebastian of Rostock. Thus, the pressure from the stands in 1608 loosened connection between the episcopate and Upper Governor was abandoned.