Margaret of Brandenburg (1450–1489)

Margaret of Brandenburg (* 1449/50, † 1489 ) was a princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania.

Life

Margaret was the second daughter of the Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg (1413-1471) from his marriage to Catherine (1421-1476), daughter of the Elector Frederick I of Saxony. From Frederick's children, only she and her older sister Dorothea survived her father

She married on 20 September 1477 Prenzlau Duke Bogislaw X of Pomerania ( 1454-1523 ). Already on May 1, 1476 of the 1474 war began Brandenburg against Pomerania, the marriage of Bogislaw and the older Margaret was in the context of peace negotiations, been decided. The marriage Bogislaw was a nuisance; the dowry, been very low, was also never paid. A year after the marriage, with the death of his uncle Wartislaw X., was Bogislaw X. sole Duke of Pomerania. With the uncle of his wife Albrecht Achilles Bogislaw closed in 1479 the Peace of Prenzlau and took from him the whole duchy as a fief.

The marriage of Margaret remained childless and she was accused by her husband of infidelity, violated. This led to political tensions with the Electorate of Brandenburg; the elector demanded back the dowry of his niece Margaret. Bogislaw in turn accused the House of Hohenzollern, to have given him a barren princess to wife, to pass through inheritance into the possession of Pomerania. In the peace negotiations in 1479 Bogislaw finally waived the payment of bridewealth his wife.