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Swietopelk II, also Zwantepolc II or Swantopolk II, (1190/1200 – 11 January 1266 [1]), sometimes known as the Great (Polish: Świętopełk II Wielki ; Kashubian: Swiãtopôłk II Wiôldżi ), was the ruling Duke of Pomerelia-Gdańsk from 1215 until his death. He was the first member of the Samborides to style himself dux from 1227 onwards.
Apr 29, 2022 · December 17, 1478 (38-47) Barth, Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Immediate Family: Son of Wartislaw IX, Herzog von Pommern-Wolgast and Sophia von Sachsen-Lauenburg. Husband of Magdalena of Mecklenburg. Ex-husband of Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Princess, Duchess of Pomerania. Father of Ertmar and Swantibor V.
Life. Seal of Barnim I. Son of Duke Bogislaw II and Miroslawa, daughter of Duke Mestwin I of Pomerelia, he succeeded to the Duchy of Pomerania- Stettin upon his father's death in 1220; [1] he had however to share the rule of Pomerania with his cousin Wartislaw III, who resided at Demmin. A minor when his father died, his lands until about 1226 ...
In the 12th century, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire's Duchy of Saxony and Denmark conquered Pomerania, ending the tribal era. In three military campaigns of 1116, 1119, and 1121, most of Pomerania was conquered by the Polish duke Boleslaus III Wrymouth who made the Pomeranian duke Wartislaw I his vassal.
Casimir IV of Pomerania (c. 1351 – 2 January 1377). [3] Elisabeth died in 1361. In 1362, Bogislaw V married his second wife Adelheid of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. She was a daughter of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and Adelheid of Everstein. They had four children: Wartislaw VII of Pomerania (d. 24 February 1395).
Duke Wartislaw X of Pomerania (1435 – 17 December 1478) was the second son of Duke Wartislaw IX of Pomerania and his wife, Sophia of Saxe-Lauenburg. Wartislaw married twice. On 5 March 1454, he married Elizabeth of Brandenburg, the widow of the Duke Joachim II "the Younger" of Pomerania-Stettin and daughter of Margrave John of the Neumark. She died in early 1465. They had two sons: Swantibor ...
Wartislaw IX died in 1457 and Pomerania-Wolgast was once again divided. Wartislaw X ruled Pomerania-Barth until 1478. This was the last time Barth served as the capital for a fragment of the Duchy of Pomerania, although later Dukes occasionally visited the city. From 1569 to 1605 it was the residence of Duke Bogislaw XIII, who was not a ruling ...
