Margrave Wars
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Were two disputes between the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Chronology
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Was a dispute between the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
May 1552: On May 19, 1552, the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, Georg von Schaumburg, had to admit defeat to Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, during the military occupation of Bayreuth.
January 1553: Capture Forchheim Fortress, occupied Forchheim and threatened the episcopal city of Bamberg.
January 1554: In 1553, troops from Nuremberg, led by Margrave Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Würzburg, led by Prince-Bishop Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt, and Bamberg, under the rule of Prince-Bishop Veit von Würzburg, recaptured parts of their possessions in Forchheim from the Protestant forces during the Second Margrave War.
January 1554: In 1553, troops from Nuremberg, Würzburg, and Bamberg, led by the respective rulers Albrecht Alcibiades, Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, and Veit von Würzburg, recaptured territories that had been seized during the Second Margrave War. The conflict was part of the larger struggle for power and influence in the region between various German states and the Holy Roman Empire.
July 1554: The Plassenburg under Joachim von Zedtwitz, residence and state fortress of the Franconian Hohenzollerns, was besieged until June 1554.
November 1554: After the margraviate of Bayreuth was administered by imperial sequestrators, including the Bohemian feudal chancellor Count von Schlick, in a transitional phase, it eventually went to the Alliance of Holy Roman Empire States in 1554.
November 1554: After the margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach was administered by imperial sequestrators, including the Bohemian feudal chancellor Count von Schlick, in a transitional phase, the territory eventually went to the Imperial City of Schweinfurth in 1554.
January 1555: Restoration of the status quo ante at the end of the Second Margrave War.
August 1554: N the Battle of Schwarzach in June 1554, Albrecht suffered a defeat and in July 1554 had to surrender the Plassenburg Fortress to the federal troops, who destroyed it.
January 1553: Albrecht Alcibiades, prince of Bayreuth, managed to occupy the imperial city of Schweinfurt, which remained an important base for him until the end of the Second Margrave War.
