John George, Elector of Brandenburg Totally Explained

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John George (; 11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571-1598). A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the son of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, and his first wife Magdalena of Saxony.
Faced with large debts accumulated during the reign of his father, John George instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on the exempt nobility. Though a staunch Lutheran opposed to the rise of Calvinism, he permitted the admission of Calvinist refugees from the wars in the Spanish Netherlands and France. He was succeeded by his son Joachim Frederick.
Upon the 1568 death of his kinsman Albert I, Duke of Prussia, the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by the latter's underage son Albert Frederick, whose guardians included the elector.

Ancestors

John George's ancestors in three generations>

John George, Elector of Brandenburg	Father: Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg	Paternal Grandfather: Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg	Paternal Great-grandfather: John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Margaret of Thuringia
		Paternal Grandmother: Elisabeth of Denmark	Paternal Great-grandfather: John of Denmark
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Christina of Saxony
	Mother: Magdalena of Saxony	Maternal Grandfather: George, Duke of Saxony	Maternal Great-grandfather: Albert, Duke of Saxony
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Sidonie of Bohemia
		Maternal Grandmother: Barbara of Poland	Maternal Great-grandfather: Casimir IV Jagiellon
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Elisabeth of Austria

Family and children

John George was married three times.
Firstly, he married Princess Sofie of Liegnitz (ca. 1525 – 6 February 1546) in 1545 and they'd the following children:

Joachim Frederick (27 January 1546 – 1608)

Secondly, he married Margravine Sabine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575-daughter of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach) in 1548 and they'd the following children:

Georg Albrecht (1555 – 1557)

Erdmuthe (1561 – 1623), married in 1577 to Duke Joachim Friedrich of Pomerania

Anna Marie (1567 – 1618), married in 1581 to Duke Barnim X of Pomerania

Sofie (6 june 1568 – 1622), married in 1582 to Elector Christian I of Saxony Thirdly, he married Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (5/15 September 1563 – 5 October 1607) in 1577 and they'd the following children:

Christian (1581 – 1655)

Magdalene (7 January 1582 – 4 May 1616), married in 1598 to Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt

Joachim Ernst (1583 – 1625)

Agnes (1584 – 1629), married:

in 1604 Duke Philipp Julius of Pomerania;
in 1628 Duke Franz Karl of Saxe-Lauenburg

Frederick (1588 – 1611)

Elisabeth Sofie (4 July 1589 – 24 December 1629), married:

in 1613 to Prince Janusz Radziwill;
in 1628 to Duke Julius Heinrich of Saxe-Lauenburg

Dorothea Sibylle (19 October 1590 – 9 March 1625), married in 1610 to Duke John Christian of Liegnitz, Brieg, Wehlau

Georg Albrecht (1591 – 1615)

Sigismund (20 November 1592 – 30 April 1640)

Johann (1597 – 1627)

Johann Georg (1598 – 1637)Further Information

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