Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia
Johann of Brandenburg- Ansbach ( born January 9, 1493 Plassenburg; † July 5, 1525 in Valencia) was Margrave of Brandenburg -Ansbach and Captain-General and Viceroy of Valencia.
Life
Johann was the fifth son of Margrave Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth (1460-1536) from his marriage to Sophia of Poland (1464-1512), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland. He was therefore cousin of the Elector Joachim of Brandenburg.
As a 16 -year-old, he participated in the Battle of Agnadello and accompanied after King Ferdinand the Catholic in Spain, where he grew up together with the future Emperor Charles V, to whom he developed a close friendship. Johann took part in imperial coronation of Charles and was included in the government. In 1516 he became a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
On June 17, 1519 he married in Barcelona on Emperor Charles mediation whose step-grandmother Germaine de Foix, daughter of Count John of Etampes and widow of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Germaine has held the office of Captain-General and Viceroy of Valencia, which Karl on March 27, 1523 expanded on Johann. The pair made on December 11, 1523 in the Cathedral of Valencia the solemn oath of office. While revolutionary unrest in Valencia, almost all the palaces of the local nobles were destroyed palace was Johanns however spared. When Charles was preparing against France in 1524, John and his wife pawned his jewels and gold and silver plates by Karl help out with funds.
After the battle of Pavia in 1525 Johann was entrusted with the supervision of the captured King Francis I of France, which end in June 1525 arrived in Valencia. Johann was already sick suddenly and severely at that time, rumored to have him poisoned his wife, which he intended to send to Germany under strict supervision. King Francis asked him his personal physician available, but died the Marquis on July 5 in Valencia. Johann was his desire to be buried according to the nunnery Jerusalem in Valencia. After the death of John Germaine married on August 1, 1526 in Seville Fernando, Duke of Calabria and Prince of Taranto, who was born on 15 December 1488 Andria, the son of King Frederick I of Naples and Isabella del Balzo.