Sigismund III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Sigismund III. of Anhalt (* 1456, † November 27, 1487 in Dessau ) was a Prince of Anhalt -Dessau.

Life

Sigismund was a son of Prince Georg I of Anhalt -Zerbst (1390-1474) from his fourth marriage to Anna († 1513), daughter of Count Albrecht von Lindau - Ruppin.

1470 Sigismund's father had placed the government in the hands of his sons, who divided the land in 1471. Sigismund and Ernst received Anhalt- Dessau, George II and Waldemar VI. Anhalt- Köthen got, and Rudolf should be resigned to a sum of money. The part of the country Anhalt- Bernburg, 1468 passed to the house ware should govern all the brothers together.

Sigismund was known as " patronus Clericorum ". He undertook in 1476 in the company of Duke Albrecht of Saxony a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but already seriously ill in Rhodes and was thus forced to turn back. He died, arrived back in Dessau, the first of the ruling brothers, unmarried and childless.