Wartislaw III, Duke of Pomerania

Wartislaw III. (* 1210, † May 17, 1264 ) was a Duke of Pomerania from the grasping house. He reigned from about 1226 to his death in the Duchy of Pomerania - Demmin part Pomeranian.

Life

Wartislaw III. was the only son of Duke Casimir II of Pomerania, who ruled in the Duchy of Pomerania - Demmin part. When Duke Casimir II in December 1219, died was Wartislaw - born around 1210 - still quite young. For him, therefore, first his mother had Ingardis, presumably a Danish princess, for some years, probably, held the regency until the mid- 1220s. At that time, Pomerania was like the whole of the southern Baltic Sea region still is under the rule of Denmark. But the capture of King Valdemar II of Denmark in 1223 and the Danish defeat at the Battle of Bornhöved ( 1227 ) broke the dominance of the northern kingdom of the Slavic countries. One last invasion of the Danes in his country could of Wartislaw III. 1234 averted with the help of Luebeck.

Two years later he had, whose common residence, the castle near Demmin, the House of Pomerania, was suffered extensive territorial losses. In the West he lost in 1236, the country Circipania, these are the landscapes east of the Lake Kummerow to Gustrow, to the reign of Rostock. In the same year he recognized in the Treaty of Kremmen the supremacy of the Margrave of Brandenburg and entered this countries Stargard, Beseritz and Wustrow, mainly the later Mecklenburg -Strelitz, from.

Since that time, but was also the influx of German settlers to Pomerania. 1236 can be the first German in the wake of the Duke documentary evidence. A clear sign of the now begins to develop land was the awarding of city rights. Wartislaw III. lent at Demmin (before 1249 ), Greifswald (1250 ) and Pommern ( 1262 ) the municipal law. He also lent together with Bishop Hermann von Pommern at Kolberg ( 1255 ) and, together with his cousin Duke Barnim I to Stavenhagen ( 1252), Wolgast ( 1257 ) and Wolin ( 1262 ) the municipal law. In all these cases, he was named town after lübischem law.

Was married to Duke Wartislaw III. with Sophia, whose origin is not known. 1264 died Wartislaw III. , Leaving no sons, so that the Demminer line of the Dukes of Pomerania became extinct with him. His legacy went to his cousin Barnim I. Resident in Szczecin. This was succeeded by the Treaty of Landin 1250 to repeal the 1236 made ​​in Kremmen agreement under which Wartislaws territory should fall after his death unbeerbtem at Brandenburg again. Wartislaw III. was buried in the monastery Eldena near Greifswald.

His widow Sophia received as dowry probably Wollin. She married probably after 1265 a second time with a Pribislaw de Slawia.

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