Waldemar (Margrave of Brandenburg)

Valdemar the Great , also Waldemar of Brandenburg ( German: Waldemar von Brandenburg , sometimes Woldemar ; ca. 1280 - August 14, 1319 , Meszkowice ) - in 1309–1319 Margrave of Brandenburg from the kind of Askaniev , co-ruler from 1302, from 1318 guardian his cousin Henry II .

Waldemar was born into the family of Margrave Conrad I of Brandenburg and his wife Constance of Poland, daughter of the Duke of Great Poland Przemyslaw I. Under an agreement in Soldin in 1309, Waldemar ceded his claim to the Duchy of Pomerania with Danzig for 10 thousand marks of silver to the Teutonic Order.

In 1312, Waldemar fought a war with Margrave Meissen Frederick I , captured him and forced him to make peace on April 14, 1312. In 1316, Waldemar captured Dresden . In 1319, Waldemar acquired Sulechow and Swiebodzin for Brandenburg.

In 1315, during the so-called North German Margrave War, Waldemar captured Stargard, but ceded to Henry II of Mecklenburg at the Battle of Gransee and was forced to surrender Stargrad to the Temple of the World Henry II on November 25, 1317.

In 1309, Waldemar married Agnes of Brandenburg (1297–1334), daughter of Margrave Herman I. This marriage was childless. In 1319, Margrave Waldemar died, and his cousin Henry II died after him. This ended the Askaniev clan as Margraves of Brandenburg.

Brandenburg in 1320

In 1348, an elderly man appeared in the archbishopric of Magdeburg , claiming that he was Margrave Waldemar, who returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . In 1319, another person was allegedly buried in his place. The scam of Falsevaldemar was revealed only in 1350 , and until that time the fraudster ruled the Brandenburg brand, which the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV transferred to him in his flax .