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Personal data Margaret von BRANDENBURG 

• She was born on September 29, 1511 in Brandenburg, Germany.
• Title: Princess of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania
• (Ancestry) : House of Hohenzollern.
• She died after December 3, 1577 in Pomerania, Poland.
• A child of Joachim I Nestor von BRANDENBURG and Elizabeth of DENMARK

Household of Margaret von BRANDENBURG

(1) She is married to Johann von ANHALT-ZERBST.

They got married on February 15, 1534 at Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, Germany, she was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Carl von ANHALT-ZERBST  1534-1564
2. Marie von ANHALT-ZERBST  1538-1563
3. Elizabeth von ANHALT-ZERBST  1545-1574
4. Joachim Ernst von ANHALT  1536-1586 
5. Bernhard von ANHALT-ZERBST  1540-1570

(2) She is married to George von POMERANIA.

They got married on January 23, 1530 at Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, she was 18 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Georgia von POMERANIA  1531-1574

Notes about Margaret von BRANDENBURG

Margaret of Brandenburg (1511 - after 3 November 1577) was a Princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage first a Duchess of Pomerania and later a Princess of Anhalt.

Margaret was the youngest daughter of the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (1484-1535) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1485-1555), daughter of King John of Denmark.

She married her first husband on 23 January 1530 in Berlin Duke George I of Pomerania (1493-1531). She brought a dowry of 20000guilders into the marriage, enabling George I to transfer a jointure consisting of the districts of Barth, Damgarten, Tribsees, Grimsby and Klempenow to her. The marriage had apparently been agreed during negotiations at Grimnitz Castle about the constitutional relationship between Brandenburg and Pomerania. George I died a year after the marriage and Margaret enjoyed the revenue from het wittum for only three years. She was quite unpopular in Pomerania and when Prince John IV of Anhalt asked for her hand, her stepson Philip I, Duke of Pomerania had to levy a special tax to pay her dowry and redeem her jointure.

Margaret and George had a posthumous child, a girl named Georgia. Georgia went with her mother to Anhalt, but returned to Pomerania when she was eight years old. Margaret succeeded in tough negotiations with her stepson, Philip I, to delay her return until May 1543.

Her second husband was, on 15 February 1534 in Dessau, prince John V of Anhalt-Zerbst (1504-1551). Her marriage to John soon proved unhappy. Margaret fled from her husband to her wittum, Roßlau Castle. Martin Luther tried to mediate between John and Margaret. He visited her at Roßlau Castle and blamed her for leaving er husband cheekily. This started a fierce war or words. Luther later reported: I must have told her clearly enough, until I was attracting her wrath.

John eventually accused Margaret of marital infidelity and imprisoned her in 1550. John's personal physician was tortured to make him confess a relationship with the princess, but he did not budge. She managed to escape from her prison and after a number of adventures arrived half-naked and robbed at the court of her cousin King Christian III of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Later, she lived for a while with her sister Elisabeth, who advised her to protect herself by marrying for a third time. Elisabeth held her sister to be unreliable and unstable and warned her son-in-law Albert not to take in Margaret. Albert took her in anyway, and after his death George Frederick I, the administrator of Prussia, took care of her, because her own children refused to support her.

By the end of her life, the led an unsettled existence in the Pomeranian-Polish border region. She is said to have married a simple farmer. It is also alleged that she contacted her daughter Georgia during her pregnancy and even visited her in Schlochau under a false identity.

From her first marriage to George I, she had a daughter:
Georgia (1531-1573) married in 1563 Count Stanislaus Latalski of Labischin († 1598)

From her second marriage to John IV, she had the following children:
Charles I (1534-1564), Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst married in 1557 princess Anna of Pomerania (1531-1592)
Joachim Ernest (1536-1586), Prince of Anhalt married firstly in 1560 Countess Agnes of Barby (1540-1569)
married secondly in1571 Princess Eleanor of Württemberg (1552-1618)
Marie (1538-1563) married in 1559 Count Albert X of Barby and Mühlingen (1534-1586)
Bernhard VII (1540-1570) married in 1565 princess Clare of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1550-1598)
Margaret (1541-1547)
Elisabeth (1545-1574) married in 1570 Count Wolfgang II of Barby (1531-1615)
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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