Barnim XI, Duke of Pomerania

Barnim XI (1501 – 1573; by some accounts Barnim IX), son of Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, became duke on his father's death in 1523.

Life

He ruled for a time in common with his elder brother George I; and after George's death in 1531 he shared the duchy with his nephew Philip I, retaining for himself the duchy of Pomerania-Stettin. The earlier years of his rule were troubled by a quarrel with Margrave Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg, who wished to annex Pomerania. In 1529, however, a treaty was made which freed Pomerania from the supremacy of Brandenburg on condition that if the ducal family became extinct the duchy should revert to Brandenburg. Barnim adopted the doctrines of Martin Luther, and joined the league of Schmalkalden, but took no part in the subsequent war. But as this attitude left him without supporters he was obliged to submit to the emperor Charles V, to pay a heavy fine, and to accept the Interim, issued from Augsburg in May 1548. In 1569, Barnim handed over his duchy to his grand-nephew, John Frederick, and died at Stettin on the 2nd of June 1573.^[1]

See also

• List of Pomeranian duchies and dukes
• History of Pomerania
• Duchy of Pomerania
• House of Pomerania

Ancestors

References

Attribution

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Barnim (dukes)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• von Bülow (1875) “Barnim XI..” In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. 2. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 79–82. (German)
• Ursula Scheil: Barnim IX.. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 1. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, p. 595 f. (German)
• Roderich Schmidt: Greifen. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 7. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, p. 31. (German) (family)