Margraviate 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 1158: For further one-and-a-half centuries, the lands east of the Elbe defied German control, until in 1134 Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg bestowed the Northern March on the Ascanian count Albert the Bear. Albert signed an inheritance contract with the Slavic Hevelli prince Pribislav and in 1150 succeeded him in his eastern territory around the fortress of Brandenburg an der Havel, which became the nucleus of his newly established Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157.

Chronology

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1. Mongol invasions and conquests

Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

1.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany

Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.

June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

2. Polish-Teutonic Wars

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

2.1.Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)

After disputes over the control of the city between the Order and the King of Poland arose, the knights murdered a number of citizens within the city and took it as their own.

January 1307: Local Nobles of Pomerelia called for Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, whose troops occupied the territory up to the city of Gdańsk.

November 1308: The takeover of Danzig by the Teutonic Order on November 13, 1308 was an important event in the history of the city of Danzig, as a result of which the city and part of Pomerelia were incorporated into the Order State.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1221: Conquests of Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg, by 1222.

January 1246: Between 1230 and 1245, Brandenburg acquired the remaining part of Barnim and the southern Uckermark up to the Welse river.

January 1251: Around 1250 Brandenburg took over Lubusz Land from then-fragmented Poland.

January 1251: In 1250, the Ascanian margraves Johann I and Otto III of Brandenburg closed the Treaty of Landin with the Dukes of Pomerania. Under this treaty, they received the northern part of the Uckermark (terra uckra), north of the Welse river and the districts of Randow and Löcknitz.

January 1258: Margrave John I founded the town of Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski) in 1257.

January 1263: The land of Budissin enters the possessions of the Ascanian Margraves of Brandenburg.

January 1266: Neumark is systematically settled by Germans within ca. 1265 (foundation of Falkenburg).

January 1269: In 1268 the county of Wernigerode lost its imperial immediacy because the Margrave of Brandenburg took over the feudal rule.

January 1269: In 1248, the duke of Pomerania transferred part of his land, which also included the Schivelbein area, to Bishop Hermann von Cammin. At the same time, the Brandenburg margraves tried to expand the Neumark, which they ruled, to the north. So it came about that twenty years later the Bishop of Cammin sold the Schivelbein area to the people of Brandenburg.

January 1301: Territorial change based on available maps.

January 1304: Margrave Dietrich IV sold Lausitz in 1303 to the Brandenburg line of the Ascanians.

January 1319: From 1318 Otto of Brunswick owned the castle and the town of Calvörde.

January 1320: After the Brandenburg Ascanians died out in 1319, the Bohemian King John of the House of Luxembourg claimed Upper Lusatia.

January 1320: After thei extinction of the Brandenburg Ascanians in 1319, the main part of Mark Lusatia was acquired by the Wittelsbachs.

Disestablishment

January 1324: The Wittelsbach Emperor Louis IV granted Brandenburg to his oldest son, Louis I. Brandenburg thus entered the possession of the Bavarian Wittelsbach.