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- Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau.
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Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau.
The elder Sigismund I became Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and took his residence at Dessau, while his younger brother Albert IV went on to rule as Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. Upon the death of Sigismund's son Prince George I of Anhalt-Dessau in 1474, the principality was again divided with Anhalt-Köthen.
After the peace of Passau in 1552 he bought back his principality, but as he was childless he surrendered it in 1562 to his kinsmen the princes of Anhalt-Dessau. Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1516) left three sons, John V, George III, and Joachim, who ruled their lands together for many years, and who favoured the Lutheran doctrine ...
RulerBornReignDeathc.11001123-117018 November 1170c.11341170-12122 February 121211701212-1252125212151252-126612 June 1266Sigismund I (d. 1405) Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst jointly with Waldemar III and Albert IV, then Prince of Anhalt-Dessau from 1396; George I (c. 1390 – 1474) Prince of Anhalt-Dessau jointly with Waldemar IV 1405–1417, Sigismund II 1405–1452 and Albert VI 1405–1469, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1468.
Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau.
Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396 and since them first ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau.
Co-ruler of Anhalt-Zerbst and ruler of Anhalt-Dessau. This page was last edited on 2 January 2024, at 09:00. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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