Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

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Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
Statue of Waldemar at the Mühlendammbrücke in Berlin, created in 1894/95 by the sculptor Max Unger, prototype for the early monuments in the Siegesallee
Bornc. 1280
Died(1319-08-14)14 August 1319
Bärwalde
Noble familyHouse of Ascania
Spouse(s)Agnes of Brandenburg
FatherConrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
MotherConstance of Greater Poland

Waldemar of Brandenburg (German: Waldemar der Große) (c. 1280 – 14 August 1319, Bärwalde) was Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, the last from the Ascanian House.

Life

He was a son of Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal and Constance, daughter of Przemysł I of Greater Poland. Waldemar was co-regent from 1302, and succeeded in 1309 as a guardian for his cousin Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal.

Pomerelia Map(within a map of the Holy Roman Empire 1138–1254) and Teutonic Order since 1308

By the Treaty of Soldin (1309), Waldemar relinquished his claims on Pomerelia and Danzig to the Teutonic Order for a payment of 10000 silver Mark. The castle districts Stolpe and Schlawe remained with Brandenburg. These countries, however, were given, together with Rügenwalde, to Duke Wartislaw IV of Pomerania-Wolgast in 1317.

In 1316 he supported Stralsund against Denmark and thereby provoked a large coalition of Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Mecklenburg and the Welfs against himself. He held his position but in the end had to surrender Stargard-Neubrandenburg to Mecklenburg. In 1319 Waldemar acquired Zuellichau and Schwiebus for Brandenburg.

Waldemar was the last governing member of the Brandenburg line of the Ascanian House. In 1309 he married Agnes of Brandenburg (1296–1334), a daughter of Margrave Hermann III. This marriage was childless.

With the death of Waldemar's ward Henry II the Brandenburg branch of the Ascanian House died out in 1320, and Brandenburg fell back to the Empire.

False Woldemar

In 1348, an impostor dubbed "False Waldemar" successfully claimed that he was Waldemar, returning from pilgrimage to the Holy Land after somebody else had been buried in his place. Quickly gaining support due to rivalries, the Emperor reinvested him for about two years before "the last Ascanian" spend his remaining life at the court in Dessau.

Ancestry

Family of Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
16. Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg
8. Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg
17. Ada of Holland
4. John I, Margrave of Brandenburg
18. Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia
9. Matilda of Groitzsch
19. Elisabeth of Poland
2. Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
20. Valdemar I of Denmark
10. Valdemar II of Denmark
21. Sophia of Minsk
5. Sophie of Denmark
22. Sancho I of Portugal
11. Berengaria of Portugal
23. Dulce of Aragon
1. Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
24. Odon of Poznań
12. Władysław Odonic
25. Viacheslava Yaroslavna of Halych
6. Przemysł I of Greater Poland
13. Hedwig
3. Constance of Greater Poland
28. Henry I the Bearded
14. Henry II the Pious
29. Hedwig of Andechs
7. Elisabeth of Wrocław
30. Ottokar I of Bohemia
15. Anne of Bohemia
31. Constance of Hungary

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Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
Born: c. 1280 Died: 14 August 1319
Preceded by Margrave of Brandenburg
1305–1319 		Succeeded by

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