Georg Friedrich (Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach)

Georg Friedrich was born in 1539 in Ansbach . His parents were Georg Brandenburg-Ansbach and Emilia of Saxony , daughter of the Duke Henry V of Saxony .

After the death of his father, Georg Friedrich, in addition to Ansbach, received such possessions in Silesia as Jägerndorf , Beuten and Oderberg ; since Emperor Ferdinand I opposed the formation of large private land estates, George Friedrich did not receive Oppeln and Ratibor . After the Second Margrave War, Emperor Ferdinand I in 1556 deprived Margrave Albrecht Alkibiad of his possessions, and Georg Friedrich in addition to his Ansbach received Bayreuth (Kulmbach).

Since the Prussian Duke Albrecht Friedrich began to show signs of mental disturbance, George Friedrich, as the next of kin (cousins), took charge of his Prussian possessions in 1577. In 1578, the Polish king Stephen Bathory officially made him regent of Prussia.

In 1577, George Friedrich accepted the formula for consent , and in 1580, the Book of Concord .

At the beginning of 1598, the Elector of Brandenburg, Johann Georg , died. By his will, which allocated the possessions of his younger sons, he violated the dynastic law established by Albrecht III on the indivisibility of the Brandenburg Elector. The eldest son of the Elector Joachim Friedrich protested the will, and he and George Friedrich signed an agreement with which all interested parties agreed: Joachim Friedrich immediately receives the single and indivisible Brandenburg, and his younger brothers after the death of the male heir, George Friedrich, will receive his margraves in as second-generation possessions.

In 1558, George Friedrich married Elizabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrinskaya , they had no children.

Elizabeth died in 1578, during the stay of a married couple in Warsaw . A year later, he married Sophia Braunschweig-Luneburg , daughter of the Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Luneburg . They also had no children.

• Georg Friedrich at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie