Electorate of Brandenburg

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Was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire that originated from the Northern March and from the eastern German colonization of territories occupied by Slavic people. It was elevated to Electorate with the Golden Bull of 1356.

Establishment

January 1412: In return for supporting Sigismund as Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt in 1410, Frederick VI of Nuremberg, a burgrave of the House of Hohenzollern, was granted hereditary control over Brandenburg in 1411.

Chronology

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1. Polish-Teutonic Wars

Were a series of Wars between the Teutonic Order and the Kingdom of Poland. .

1.1.Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466)

Was a conflict fought in 1454-1466 between the Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order.

January 1455: Neumarkt sold to the Electorate of Brandenburg.

2. War of the Succession of Stettin

Was a conflict between the Dukes of Pomerania and the Elector of Brandenburg. It started in 1464, after the death of Duke Otto III, the last Duke of Pomerania-Stettin. The Dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast, Eric II and Wartislaw X, held that they were Otto's rightful heirs. Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg held that Pomerania-Stettin was a fief of Brandenburg.

January 1469: In 1468, Brandenburg captured several Pomeranian towns on both sides of the Oder.

June 1470: In May 1470, Eric II of Pomerania invaded the Neumark, a territory in present-day.

July 1470: In May 1470, Eric II of Pomerania invaded the Neumark, a territory in present-day.

3. Union of Brandenburg and Prussia

The Elector of Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia upon Duke Albert Frederick's death in 1618.

January 1619: The Electors of Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia upon Albert Frederick's death in 1618.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1416: After Bayreuth prince John III's death on 11 June 1420, the his domains were inherited by his brother Frederick VI of Bayreuth, who had become Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1415.

June 1420: Frederick of Ansbach had become Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1415.

September 1440: Upon the death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided between his sons; John received the principality of Bayreuth (Brandenburg-Kulmbach), Frederick received Brandenburg, and Albert received Ansbach.

January 1446: Cottbus became part of Brandenburg.

January 1471: Restoration of the personal union of Bayreuth, Ansbach and Brandenburg.

January 1478: Barbara von Brandenbur inherited the Duchy of Crossen.

January 1487: Separation of Bayreuth and Ansbach from Brandenburg.

January 1524: In 1523 Georg von Schellenberg sold Jägerndorf to Margrave George the Pious due to financial difficulties.

January 1525: In 1524, the territory of Lindow became extinct and was transferred to the Electorate of Brandenburg.

January 1525: In 1524, the territory of Ruppin became part of the Electorate of Brandenburg after the ruling family became extinct.

December 1526: As early as 1526, Duke Johann II had enfeoffed the Brandenburg Margrave George the Pious of Ansbach with Oppeln. The Habsburgs, who came to power in Bohemia in the same year, confirmed the pledge of Oppeln-Ratibor to George of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the Prague Treaty of June 17, 1531. However, the rule of Beuthen was promised to him on only two heirs.

January 1548: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Reformation.

January 1556: As a result of the Reformation, in 1556 the Lebus Prince-Bishopric estates became the property of Margrave Johann von Küstrin from the Hohenzollern family.

January 1572: The Havelberg Bishopric is acquired by the Electorate of Brandenburg.

January 1572: The Brand Prince-Bishopric was secularised as part of Electoral Brandenburg 1571.