HOHENZOLLERN

Part 2

Friedrich I, Elector of Brandenburg (see Part 1) had issue:

1a) Elisabeth (1403-Liegnitz 31 Oct 1449, bur there); m.1^st Konstanz 9 Apr 1418 Duke Ludwig II of Liegnitz and Brieg (d.30 May 1436); m.2^nd 1438/9 Duke Wenzel I of Teschen (d.1474)

2a) Cäcilie (d.4 Jan 1449, bur Braunschweig Dom); m.Berlin 6 Jun 1423 Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (d.25 Jul 1482)

3a) Johann “der Alchemist”, renounced his rights of succession (1406-Baiersdorf 16 Nov 1464, bur Heilsbronn); m.by 26 May 1416 Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg (b.after 1406, d.Bayreuth 10 Oct 1465, bur Bayreuth Pfarrkirche), dau of Rudolf, Elector of Saxony

1b) Barbara (1423-Mantua 7 Nov 1481. bur S.Francesco, Mantua); m.Mantua 12 Nov 1433 Luigi III Gonzaga, Margrave of Mantua (d.12 Jun 1478)

2b) Rudolf (Trebitz, Saxony 2 Feb 1424-1424)

3b) Elisabeth (1425-after 13 Jan 1465); m.1^st 29 Sep 1440 Duke Joachim of Pomerania (d.1451); m.2^nd 5 Mar 1454 Duke Wratislaw X of Pomerania (d.17 Dec 1478)

4b) Dorothea (1430-Kalundborg 10 Nov 1495, bur Roskilde Cathedral); m.1^st Copenhagen 12 Sep 1445 King Christof III of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Pfgf von Neunburg u.Neumarkt (d.1448); m.2^nd Copenhagen 28 Oct 1449 King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Gf von Oldenburg (d.Copenhagen 21 May 1481); Christian apparently married her, the dowager Queen, in order to help win the Danes to his side in his eventually successful efforts to gain the Danish throne

5b) [illegitimate] Fritz fl 1456

4a) Margarete (1410-Landshut 27 Jul 1465, bur Kl Seligenthal); m.1^st Ingolstadt 20 Jul 1441 Duke Ludwig of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (d.7 Apr 1445); m.2^nd 1446 Martin von Waldenfels; some earlier sources had her m.1423 to Duke Albrecht V of Mecklenburg (d.1423), but this marriage, if it was ever contemplated, apparently never occurred

5a) Magdalene (d.Scharnebeck 27 Oct 1454, bur there); m.16 Sep 1430 Duke Friedrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (d.Celle 19 Mar 1478)

6a) Friedrich II, Mgve and Elector of Brandenburg 1440 (Tangermünde 19 Nov 1413-Neustadt am Aisch 10 Feb 1471, bur Heilsbronn); m.Wittenberg 11 Jun 1441 Pss Katharina of Saxony (1421-Berlin 22 Aug 1476, bur Kl Lehnin)

1b) Dorothea (1448-1519, bur Ratzeburg); m.Lüneburg 12 Feb 1464 Duke Johann V of Saxe-Lauenburg (d.1507)

2b) Margarete (d.1489, bur Wolgast); m.Prenzlau 21 Sep 1477 Duke Bogislaw X of Pomerania (d.5 Oct 1523)

3b) Johann (b.by 13 Dec 1452, d.by 1454)

7a) Albrecht Achilles, 1440 in Ansbach, 1457 in Bayreuth, Elector of Brandenburg 1470 (Tangermünde 24 Nov 1414-Frankfurt 11 Mar 1486, bur Heilsbronn); he laid down the family rule rare among German families, the key to its future success, that Brandenburg would never be divided, but always inherited by the eldest son, and that the territories of Ansbach and Bayreuth could be given to younger sons, but not further subdivided; he m.1^st Ansbach 14 Nov 1446 Margarete of Baden (d.Ansbach 24 Oct 1457, bur Heilsbronn); m.2^nd Ansbach 12 Nov 1458 Pss Anna of Saxony (Meissen 7 Mar 1437-Neustadt 31 Oct 1512)

1b) Wolfgang (b.and d.1450)

2b) Ursula (25 Sep 1450-Breslau 25 Nov 1508, bur Glatz Pfarrkirche); m.Eger 10 Feb 1467 Duke Heinrich I of Münsterberg (d.1498)

3b) Elisabeth (29 Nov 1451-Nürtingen 11 Mar 1524, bur Stuttgart Stiftskirche); m.Stuttgart 1467 Duke Eberhard II of Württemberg (d.1504)

4b) Margareta, Abbess of St.Klara, Hof 1476 (18 Apr 1453-Hof 27 Apr 1509)

5b) Johann Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (2 Aug 1455-Schloß Arneburg 9 Jan 1499, bur Berlin Dom); m.Berlin 25 Aug 1476 Pss Margarete of Saxony (Weimar 1449-Spandau 13 Jul 1501)

1c) a dau. (b.Berlin 11/12 Sep 1480, d.after 5 Jul 1482)

2c) Wolfgang (17/26 May 1482-d.after 5 Jul 1482)

3c) Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg (21 Feb 1484-Berlin 11 Jul 1535, bur Kl Lehnin, then 1545 Berlin); m.Stendal 10 Apr 1502 Pss Elisabeth of Denmark (Nyborg 1485-Cölln an der Spree 10 Jun 1555, bur Berlin Dom)

1d) Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg (9 Jan 1505-Schloß Köpenick 3 Jan 1571, bur Berlin Dom); m.1^st Dresden 6 Nov 1524 Pss Magdalene of Saxony (Dresden 7 Mar 1507-20/28 Jan 1534; bur Berlin Dom); m.2^nd Cracow 1535 Pss Hedwig of Poland (25 Mar 1513-Alt-Ruppin 7 Feb 1573, bur Berlin Dom), dau of King Zygmunt I of Poland

1e) Johann Georg, Elector of Brandenburg (11 Sep 1525-Berlin 18 Jan 1598, bur Berlin Dom); m.1^st Berlin 15 Feb 1545 Pss Sophie of Liegnitz (d.1546); m.2^nd Ansbach 12 Feb 1548 Mgvine Sabine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1529-1575; below); m.3^rd Letzlingen 6 Oct 1577 Pss Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (Zerbst 25 Sep 1563-Crossen 5 Oct 1607, bur Berlin Dom); for his descendants see Part 3

2e) Barbara (10 Aug 1527-Brieg 2/12 Jan 1595, bur Brieg Schloßkirche); m.Berlin 15 Feb 1545 Duke Georg II of Brieg (d.1586)

3e) Elisabeth (1528-20 Aug 1529)

4e) Friedrich, Archbishop of Magdeburg 1551 (Berlin 12 Dec 1530-Halberstadt2 Oct 1552, bur Halberstadt Dom)

5e) Albrecht (Berlin 15 Feb 1532-Berlin 16 Feb 1532)

6e) Georg (b.and d.Berlin 15 Feb 1532)

7e) Paul (b.and d.20/28 Jan 1534)

8e) Elisabeth Magdalena (Berlin 6 Nov 1537-Berlin 22 Aug/1 Sep 1595, bur Berlin Dom); m.Cölln an der Spree 5 Feb 1559 Duke Franz Otto of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (d.Celle 29 Apr 1559)

9e) Siegmund, Archbishop of Magdeburg 1553 (2 Dec 1538-Halle, Moritzburg 14 Sep 1566, bur Halle)

10e) Hedwig (Cölln an der Spree 23 Feb 1540-Wolfenbüttel 21 Oct 1602, bur there); m.Berlin 25 Feb 1560 Duke Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (d.Wolfenbüttel 3 May 1589)

11e) Sophie (14 Dec 1541-Krumau 27 Jun 1564, bur Hohenfurth); m.Berlin 14 Dec 1561 Wilhelm von Rosenberg (d.Prague 31 Aug 1592, bur Krumau)

12e) Joachim (ca 1543-Cölln an der Spree 23 Mar 1544, bur Berlin Dom)

2d) Anna (1507-Lübz 19 Jun 1567, bur Schwerin Dom); m.Berlin 17 Jan 1524 Duke Albrecht VI of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d.1547)

3d) Elisabeth (Berlin 24 Aug 1510-Ilmenau 27 May 1558, bur Vessra); m.1^st Berlin 26 Feb 1525 Duke Erich I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (d.Hagenau 30 Jul 1540); m.2^nd Münden 31 May/1 Jun 1546 Poppo Gf von Henneberg (d.Burgbreitungen 4 Mar 1574)

4d) Margareta (29 Sep 1511-1577); m.1^st Wolgast 23 Jan 1530 Duke Georg I of Pomerania (d.1531); m.2^nd Dessau 15 Feb 1534 Johann II Fst von Anhalt-Zerbst (d.4 Feb 1551); m.3d 1553 Hans Jonas von der Goltz (d.after 1566)

5d) Johann, Margrave of Küstrin, Hr der Neumark (Tangermünde 3 Aug 1513-Küstrin 13 Jan 1571, bur Küstrin Marienkirche); m.Wolfenbüttel 11 Nov 1537 Dss Katharina of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Wolfenbüttel 1518-Crossen 16 May 1574, bur Küstrin Marienkirche)

1e) Elisabeth (Küstrin 29 Aug 1540-Warsaw 8 Mar 1578, bur Königsberg Dom); m.Küstrin 26 Dec 1558 Georg Friedrich, Mgve of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d.1603; below)

2e) Katharine (Küstrin 10 Aug 1549-Berlin 10 Oct 1602, bur Berlin Dom); m.Küstrin 8 Jan 1570 Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d.1608)

4c) Elisabeth (b.and d.1486)

5c) Anna (1487-Kiel 3 May 1514, bur Bordesholm); m.Stendal 10 Apr 1502 King Frederik I of Denmark (d.10 Apr 1533)

5c) Ursula (17 Oct 1488-Güstrow 18 Sep 1510, bur Doberan); m.16 Feb 1507 Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d.6 Feb 1552)

7c) Albrecht, Cardinal 1518, Archbishop of Magdeburg 1513, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz 1514 (Berlin 28 Jun 1490-Mainz 24 Sep 1545, bur Mainz Dom)

6b) [by 1^st m.] Friedrich, d.young

7b) Friedrich V, Mgve of Brandenburg in Ansbach 1486 and Bayreuth 1495 (Ansbach 8 May 1460-Ansbach Schloß 4 Apr 1536, bur Heilsbronn); m.Frankfurt an der Oder 14 Feb 1479 Pss Sophie of Poland (6 May 1464-5 Oct 1512, bur Heilsbronn), dau of King Kazimierz IV of Poland

1c) Elisabeth (b.Kadolzburg 30 Jun 1480, d.young after 2 Jul 1480)

2c) Kasimir, in Bayreuth 1521 (Ansbach 27 Sep 1481-Ofen an der Ruhr 21 Sep 1527, bur Heilsbronn); m.Augsburg 25 Aug 1518 Pss Susanne of Bavaria (2 Apr 1502-Neuburg 23 Apr 1543; bur Munich), dau of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria (and later wife of Otto Heinrich, Elector Palatine)

1d) Marie (14 Oct 1519-Heidelberg 31 Oct 1567, bur Heiliggeist, Heidelberg); m.Crailsheim 12 Jun 1557 Friedrich III, Elector Palatine (d.Heidelberg 26 Oct 1576)

2d) Katharina, d.young

3d) Albrecht Alcibiades, in Bayreuth 1527 (Ansbach 28 Mar 1522-Pforzheim 8 Jan 1557, bur there)

4d) Kunigunde (Ansbach 17 Jun 1523-Pforzheim 27 Feb 1558); m.Neustadt am Aisch 10 Mar 1551 Mgve Karl II of Baden-Durlach (d.1577)

5d) Friedrich, d.young

3c) Margarete (Ansbach 10 Jan 1483-10 Jul 1532)

4c) Georg "der Fromme", in Ansbach 1541, in Jägerndorf and Hr von Oppeln 1541 (Ansbach 4 Mar 1484-Ansbach 27 Dec 1534, bur Heilsbronn); m.1^st Gyula 21 Jan 1509 Beatrice de Frangepan, heiress of Hunyadi (1480-1510), dau of Ct Bernardin Frangepan, and widow of Corvinus Hunyadi, Duke of Slavonia; m.2^nd Öls 9 Jan 1525 Pss Hedwig of Münsterberg (12 Jun 1508-Liegnitz 26 Nov 1531, bur there); m.3^rd Freiberg 25 Aug 1532 Pss Emilie of Saxony (Freiberg 27 Jul 1516-Ansbach 9 Apr 1591; bur Heilsbronn)

1d) Anna Marie (Jägerndorf 28 Dec 1526-Nürtingen 20 May 1589, bur Tübingen Stiftskirche); m.Ansbach 17 Feb 1544 Duke Christof of Württemberg (d.28 Dec 1568)

2d) Sabine (Ansbach 1529-Berlin 2 Nov 1575, bur Berlin Dom); m.12 Feb 1548 Johann Georg, Elector of Brandenburg (d.1598)

3d) Sophie (23 Mar 1535-Liegnitz 22 Feb 1587, bur Liegnitz); m.11 Nov 1560 Duke Heinrich XI of Liegnitz (d.1588)

4d) Barbara (Himmelskron 1536-27 Jun 1591, bur Himmelskron)

5d) Dorothea Katharina (23 Feb 1538-18 Jan 1604, bur Plauen); m.2 Feb 1556 Heinrich VI von Plauen, Bggf von Meißen (d.1568)

6d) Georg Friedrich, in Ansbach 1543, in Bayreuth 1557, Regent of the Duchy of Prussia 1577/84 (Ansbach 5 Apr 1539-6 May 1603, bur Ansbach); m.1^st Küstrin 26 Dec 1558 Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin (above); m.2^nd Dresden 3 May 1579 Dss Sophie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Celle 30 Oct 1563-Nürnberg 14 Jan 1639; bur Nürnberg Lorenzkirche)

5c) Sophie (Ansbach 10 Mar 1485-14 May 1537, bur St.Johannis, Liegnitz); m.13 Feb 1518 Duke Friedrich II of Liegnitz (d.1547)

6c) Anna (Ansbach 5 May 1487-7 Feb 1539); m.1 Dec 1518 Duke Wenzel III of Teschen (d.17 Nov 1524)

7c) Barbara (31 Jul 1488-2 May 1490, bur Heilsbronn)

8c) Albrecht (Ansbach 17 May 1490-Schloß Tappiau 20 Mar 1568, bur Königsberg Dom); in 1511 he was chosen as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights; in 1525 he secularized the order, married, and declared himself Duke of Prussia, under the king of Poland; he m.1^st Königsberg 1526 Pss Dorothea of Denmark (1 Aug 1504-Königsberg Schloß 11 Apr 1547, bur Königsberg Dom); m.2^nd Königsberg 16 Feb 1550 Dss Anna Marie of Braunschweig-Kalenberg (23 Apr 1532-Schloß Neuhausen 20 Mar 1568; bur Königsberg Dom)

1d) Anna Sophie (11 Jun 1527-Lübz 16 Feb 1591, bur Schwerin Dom); m.Wismar 24 Feb 1555 Duke Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg (d.1576)

2d) Katharina (b.and d.1528)

3d) Friedrich Albrecht (5 Dec 1529-1 Jan 1530)

4d) Lucia Dorothea (8 Apr 1531-1 Jan 1532)

5d) Lucia (Königsberg 3 Feb 1537-May 1539)

6d) Albrecht, b.and d.Mar 1539

7d) Elisabeth (20 May 1551-Königsberg Schloß 19 Feb 1596, bur Königsberg Dom)

8d) Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (Schloß Neuhausen nr Königsberg 29 Apr 1553-Fischhausen 27/28 Aug 1618, bur Königsberg); m.Königsberg 14 Oct 1573 Marie Eleonore of Jülich, Kleve and Berg (Kleve 15/16 Jun 1550-1 Jun 1608); as a result of this marriage the electors of Brandenburg (descended from her daughter) claimed her homeland; this dispute was part of the 30-years war; finally, in 1666, Kleve and other territories of that family were allotted to the Hohenzollerns

1e) Anna (3 Jul 1576-Berlin 9/10 Apr 1625, bur Königsberg Dom); m.Königsberg 30 Oct 1594 Johann Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (d.1619)

2e) Marie (Königsberg Schloß 23 Jan 1579-Bayreuth 21 Feb 1649, bur Bayreuth Stadtkirche); m.Plassenburg 9 May 1604 Mgve Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d.1655)

3e) Albrecht Friedrich (Königsberg Schloß 1 Jun 1580-Schloß Neuhausen 8 Oct 1580, bur Königsberg Schloßkirche)

4e) Sophie (31 Mar 1582-Schloß Goldingen 4 Dec 1610); m.5 Jan 1609 Wilhelm, Duke of Courland (d.1640)

5e) Eleonore (22 Aug 1583-Berlin 9 Apr 1607, bur Berlin Dom); m.Berlin 2 Nov 1603 Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d.1608)

6e) Wilhelm Friedrich (23 Jun 1585-Königsberg Schloß 18 Jan 1586, bur Königsberg Dom)

7e) Magdalene Sibylle (Königsberg Schloß 30 Dec 1586-Dresden 12 Feb 1659, bur Freiburg Dom); m.Torgau 19 Jul 1607 Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony (d.1656)

9c) Friedrich (Ansbach 13 Jun 1491-ca 1497)

10c) Johann, Viceroy of Valencia (Plassenburg 9 Jan 1493-Valencia 5 Jul 1525, bur Convent of Jerusalem, nr Valencia); m.17 Jun 1519 Germaine de Foix, Dowager Queen of Aragón (d.Liria 15 Oct 1538), dau of Jean de Foix, and widow of King Fernando II of Aragón (and later wife of Fernando de Aragón, Duca di Calabria)

11c) Elisabeth (Ansbach 25 Mar 1494-Pforzheim 31 May 1518, bur Stuttgart Stiftskirche); m.Pforzheim 29 Sep 1510 Mgve Ernst of Baden-Durlach (d.1553)

12c) Barbara (Ansbach 24 Sep 1495-nr Elbogen, Bohemia 23 Sep 1552; bur Pfreimd); m.Plassenburg 26 Jul 1528 Georg Ldgf von Leuchtenberg (d.Grünsfeld 22/23 May 1555)

13c) Freidrich, a canon in Würzburg and Salzburg (Ansbach 17 Jan 1497-Genoa 20 Aug 1536, bur there)

14c) Wilhelm, Archbishop of Riga [Köln?] 1539 (Ansbach 30 Jun 1498-Riga 4 Feb 1563, bur Riga Dom)

15c) Johann Albrecht, Archbishop of Magdeburg 1545/50 (Ansach 20 Sep 1499-Halle 17 May 1550, bur there)

16c) Friedrich Abrecht (Plassenburg 30 Nov 1501-24 Jul 1504, bur Kulmbach)

17c) Gumprecht, a canon in Bamberg (Ansbach 16 Jul 1503-Naples 25 Jun 1528, bur S.Pietro, Naples)

8b) Amalie (Plassenburg 1 Oct 1461-Baden-Baden 3 Sep 1481, bur Baden-Baden Stiftskirche); m.Zweibrücken 19 Apr 1478 Kaspar Pfgf von Zweibrücken (d.1527)

9b) Anna (1462-1462/3)

10b) Barbara (Ansbach 29 May 1464-Ansbach 4 Sep 1515, bur Heilsbronn); m.1^st Berlin 11 Oct 1472 Duke Heinrich XI of Glogau (d.1476); m.2^nd Frankfurt an der Oder 20 Aug 1476 (div 1500) King Ladislaus II of Hungary and Bohemia

11b) Albrecht (Ansbach 5 Mar 1466-Nov 1466)

12b) Sibylle (Ansbach 31 May 1467-Kaster 9 Jul 1524, bur Altenberger Dom); m.Köln 8 Jul 1481 Duke William IV of Jülich and Berg (d.6 Sep 1511)

13b) Siegmund, Mgve of Brandenburg in Bayreuth 1486 (Ansbach 27 Sep 1468-Ansbach 26 Feb 1495, bur Heilsbronn)

14b) Albrecht (Ansbach 16 Jul 1470-12 Aug 1470)

15b) Dorothea, Abbess in Bamberg (Berlin 12 Dec 1471-Bamberg 13 Feb 1520, bur Bamberg Klosterkirche)

16b) Georg (Berlin 30 Dec 1472-Kadolzburg 5 Dec 1476)

17b) Elisabeth (Ansbach 8 Apr 1474-Römhild 25 Apr 1507, bur Römhild Stiftskirche); m.Aschaffenburg 23 Nov 1491 Hermann Gf von Henneberg (d.Schwarza 5 Apr 1535; bur Römhild Stiftskirche)

18b) Magdalene (Berlin 29 Jul 1476-d.by 4 Feb 1480)

19b) Anastasia (Ansbach 17 Mar 1478-Ilmenau 4 Jul 1534, bur Kl Vessra); m.Neustadt 7 Feb 1500 Wilhelm Gf von Henneberg (d.24 Jan 1559; bur Vessra)

8a) Sophie (Nürnberg 1 May/29 Sep 1416-1416/7)

9a) Dorothea (Berlin 9 Feb 1420-Kl Rehna 19 Jan 1491, bur Gadebusch); m.1432 Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg (d.1477)

10a) Friedrich, Hr der Altmark 1447 (ca 1424-Tangermünde 6 Oct 1463); m.Tangermünde 9 Feb 1449 Agnes of Pomerania (ca 1436-Bernburg 9 May 1512, bur Ballenstedt Stiftskirche)

1b) Magdalene (1460-Burg Hohenzollern 17 Jun 1496, bur Hechingen); m.Berlin Schloß 17 Feb 1482 Eitel-Friedrich Gf von Hohenzollern (d.1512)