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Inscription: Churfürst Bernhard (i.e. Prince-elector Bernhard) Bernhard ( c. 1140 – 2 February 1212), a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, and Lord of Bernburg through his paternal inheritance. From 1180 he was also Duke of Saxony (as Bernhard III or Bernhard I).
Bernhard. Woodcut by Balthasar Mencius (Menz), 1596, showing Bernhard holding his coat-of-arms. Inscription: Churfürst Bernhard (i.e. Prince-elector Bernhard) Bernhard, a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, and Lord of Bernburg through his paternal inheritance. From 1180 he was also Duke of Saxony.
The Principality of Anhalt (German: Fürstentum Anhalt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Central Germany, in what is today part of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Under the rule of the House of Ascania , the Anhalt territory was split off the German stem duchy of Saxony in 1212 and granted to Count Henry I , who was raised ...
RulerBornReignDeathc.11001123-117018 November 1170c.11341170-12122 February 121211701212-1252125212151252-126612 June 1266When Albert died in 1170, his son Bernard I, who received the title of Duke of Saxony in 1180, became the first Count of Anhalt. Bernard I died in 1212, and Anhalt, separated from Saxony, passed to his son Henry, who in 1218 took the title of prince and was the real founder of the house of Anhalt.
Brief Life History of Bernhard III. When Bernhard III. von Anhalt-Sachsen was born in 1140, in Dresden, Kreis Dresden, Saxony, Germany, his father, Albrecht I. 'der Bär' Markgraf von Brandenburg, was 40 and his mother, Sophie von Winzenburg, was 32. He married Judith of Poland in 1169, in Poznań, Greater Poland, Poland.
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Brief Life History of Bernhard III When Bernhard III von Sachsen und von Anhalt was born in 1140, in Dresden, Kreis Dresden, Saxony, Germany, his father, Markgraf Albrecht von Brandenburg I genannt der Bär, was 41 and his mother, Sophie von Winzenburg, was 32.
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Count Heinrich VON ANHALT I (1176 - 1252) Child: Prinzessin Hedwig VON SACHSEN (1174 - ) Child: Albert I Duke of Saxony (1175 - 1260) Child: Johann von SACHSEN (1178 - 1256) Child: Elisabeth VON ANHALT WILDBERG (1183 - 1220) Child: Princess Sofie vel Adelheid OF SAXONY (1183 - 1244) Child: Magnus von SACHSEN (1185 - 1195)
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