Mecklenburg

MECKLENBURG

Titles: Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Prince of the Wends, Schwerin & Ratzeburg, Count of Schwerin, Lord of the Lands of Rostock & Stargard

Territorial Development & Dynastic History
1170: Principality
1229: Partitioned into Mecklenburg, Werle, Rostock and Parchim
1304: Princes of Mecklenburg acquired Stargard as marriage dowry
1314: Prince of Rostock line died out
1416: Prince of Parchim line died out
1323: Acquired Rostock
1348: Duchy
1353: Partitioned
1358: Purchase of Schwerin from the Counts of Tecklenburg and Schwerin
1436: Acquisition of the lands of the extinct branch of Werle
1471: Mecklenburg-Stargard line died out; Mecklenburg reunited
1536: Division into Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Gustrow
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1610: Mecklenburg principalities reunited
1621: Partitioned into Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Güstrow
1628: Dukes of Mecklenburg placed under an imperial ban
1629: To Albrecht of Wallenstein
1631: Dukes of Mecklenburg restored to their lands by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
1648: Acquired secularized Bishoprics of Schwerin and Ratzeburg
1808: Confederation of the Rhine
1815: Grand Duchy
1815: German Confederation

Rulers of Mecklenburg
Princes of Obodrites tribe (into Bodriches tribal union):
Vyshan......................................... ? -795
Godlav.........................................795-803 with...
Drazhko........................................795-809 and...
Slavomir.......................................795-819
Sedrag.........................................819-839
Gostomysl......................................839-844
Dobromysl......................................844-862
To Saxony......................................862-928
Margraviate of Billungs (Billungenmark)
Hermann I Billung ( Duke of Saxony 961-973).....928-973
Bernard I (Duke of Saxony 973-1011)............973-983
Princes of Bodriches
Nakon I (in rebellion against Billungs)........954-967
Mstivoy I (in rebellion to 983)................967-995 with, or opposed by...
Mezhidrag......................................990-995
Mstislav.......................................995-1019
Otto..........................................1019-1028
Ratibor.......................................1028-1042
Two sons of Ratibor, names unknown............1042-1044
Princes of Greater Wendia (tribal union of Bodriches, Lutiches and Lusatian Sorbs)
Gottschalk....................................1044-1066
Blusson.......................................1066-1067
Budivoy.......................................1067-1072
Krutoy........................................1072-1093
Heinrich I.......................................1093-1127
Svyatopolk....................................1127-1128
Sub-kingdom of the Wends (absorbed into Denmark)

SKIOLDING
Knut I.............................................1128
Svend I.......................................1128-1129
Knut II Lavand................................1129-1131
Prince of the Wends
Pribyslav.....................................1131-1139
Princes of the Obodrites (Ger. Mecklenburg)

NIKLOTING
1139-1140: Heinrich II
1140-1142: Adalolf
1142-1160: Nicholas I
1160-1167: Bratislaw
1160-1178: Pribeslaw I
1160-1164: Warteslaw
1164-1200: Nicholas II
1178-1219: Heinrich Borwin I (d.1228)
1219-1226: Heinrich Borwin II
1219-1225: Nicholas II

Mecklenburg-Goldberg
1316-1352: Johann III
1352-1354: Nicholas VI
1354-1375: Johann IV

Mecklenburg-Grabow
1658-1688: Friedrich I
1688-1692: Friedrich Wilhelm

Mecklenburg-Gustrow
1282-1291: Heinrich I
1291-1307: Heinrich II
1291-1292: Nicholas
1316-1337: Johann II
1337-1360: Nicholas V
1360-1377: Johann V
1360-1400: Lorenz
1400-1421: Balthasar
1400-1414: Johann VII
1421-1436: Wilhelm

1610-1628: Johann Albrecht II (d.1636)

Von WALLENSTEIN
1628-1631: Albrecht Wenceslaus Eusebius (d.1634)

NIKLOTING
1631-1636: Johann Albrecht II (restored)
1636-1695: Gustav Adolf

Mecklenburg
1226-1264: Johann I the Theologian
1264-1275: Heinrich I the Jerusalem-Farer (d.1302)
1275-1299: Johann II
1287-1329: Heinrich II the Lion
1287-1289: Johann III
1298-1302: Heinrich I the Jerusalem-Farer
1329-1352: Albrecht I the Great (d.1379)
1329-1352: Johann IV (d.1377)

Mecklenburg-Mirow
1658-1670: Karl
1658-1675: Johann Georg

Mecklenburg-:Parchim
1227-1270: Pribislaw I
1270-1315: Pribislaw II
1282-1283: Johann I the Peaceful
1283-1316: Nicholas IV
1283-1316: Johann II (d.1337)

Mecklenburg-Rostock
1233-1278: Heinrich Borwin III

1278-1282: Waldemar
1282-1314: Nicholas the Child
1282-1283: Heinrich Borwin IV

Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1352-1379: Albrecht I the Great

1379-1412: Albrecht II

1379-1385: Magnus I

1379-1383: Heinrich III

1383-1388: Albrecht III

1385-1390: Johann IV (d.1422)


1390-1417: Johann II of Stargard

1417-1423: Albrecht IV

1423-1442: Johann V

1423-1477: Heinrich IV the Fat

1464-1483: Albrecht V

1464-1474: Johann VI

1477-1503: Magnus II

1503-1552: Heinrich V the Peaceful

1503-1547: Albrecht VII the Handsome

1547-1576: Johann Albrecht I

1576-1592: Johann VII

1576-1603: Sigmund August

1592-1628: Adolf Friedrich I

1592-1610: Johann Albrecht II (d.1636)

Von WALLENSTEIN
1628-1631: Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius

NIKLOTING
1631-1658: Johann Albrecht II

1658-1692: Christian Ludwig

1692-1713: Friedrich Wilhelm of Grabow

1713-1747: Karl Leopold

1747-1756: Christian Ludwig II

1756-1785: Friedrich II

1785-1837: Friedrich Franz I

1837-1842: Paul Friedrich

1842-1883: Friedrich Franz II

1883-1897: Friedrich Franz III

1897-1918: Friedrich Franz IV

Mecklenburg-Stargard
1352-1377: Johann I (IV)
1377-1417: Johann II
1377-1417: Ulrich I
1417-1439: Johann III
1417-1466: Heinrich
1439-1455: Johann IV
1466-1471: Ulrich II

Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1658-1708: Adolf Friedrich I

1701-1708: Adolf Friedrich II

1708-1752: Adolf Friedrich III

1752-1794: Adolf Friedrich IV

1794-1816: Karl II

1816-1860: Georg

1860-1904: Friedrich Wilhelm

1904-1914: Adolf Friedrich V

1914-1918: Adolf Friedrich VI

Mecklenburg-Waren
1337-1378: Bernhard
1378-1395: Johann VI
1395-1408: Nicholas VI
1395-1425: Christoph

Mecklenburg-Werle
1233-1277:  Nicholas III
1277-1282:  Heinrich I (d.1291)
1277-1282:  Johann I the Peaceful (d.1283)

Source: Regnal Chronologies

References

Lins, J. (1911). Mecklenburg. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 24, 2011 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10107a.htm

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