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Matilda of Brandenburg (also called Mechthild; c. 1210 – 10 June 1261), a member of the House of Ascania, was first Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1252 by her marriage with the Welf duke Otto the Child . Matilda was the elder daughter of Margrave Albert II of Brandenburg and his wife Matilda ( Mechthild ), a daughter of ...
Bernhard, Count of Anhalt. Hedwig, Margravine of Meissen. House. House of Ascania. Father. Otto, Count of Ballenstedt. Mother. Eilika of Saxony. Albert the Bear ( German: Albrecht der Bär; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170) was the first margrave of Brandenburg from 1157 to his death and was briefly duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.
Life. Henry was a son of Margrave John I of Brandenburg and his second wife, Jutta, the daughter of Duke Albert I of Saxony. The origin of his nickname "Lackland" is not known. Henry was more than fifteen years younger than his brothers John II, Otto IV "with the arrow" and Conrad I and was therefore likely to be excluded from governing when ...
Mother. Elisabeth of Bavaria. Frederick II of Brandenburg ( German: Friedrich II.) (19 November 1413 – 10 February 1471), nicknamed " the Iron " ( der Eiserne) and sometimes " Irontooth " ( Eisenzahn ), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440 until his abdication in 1470, and was a member of the House of Hohenzollern .
Albert of Brandenburg ( c. 1258 –1290) John I held King Eric V prisoner from 1262 to 1264. In 1273, the King of Denmark married John's daughter, Agnes of Brandenburg. After John's death in 1266, his brother Otto III ruled Brandenburg alone. After Otto's death in 1267, John's son, Otto IV, took over as the senior Margrave.
George William succeeded his father as margrave of Bayreuth when he died on 20 May 1712. He pursued a military career due to a lack of academic aptitude and participated successfully on the imperial side in numerous battles. In this connection, he was seriously hit by a musket ball near Landau, a wound that never healed completely.
Elizabeth of Austria. Sophia of Poland ( Polish: Zofia Jagiellonka, 6 May 1464 – 5 October 1512), was a Polish princess, member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, great-granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach. [1] Born in Kraków, she was the second daughter of Grand Duke of ...
