Swantibor V, Duke of Pomerania

Swantibor V (1454–1464) was a prince of Pomerania from the House of Griffins.

Swantibor V of Pomerania
Born	1454
Died	1464
Noble family	House of Griffins
Father	Wartislaw X, Duke of Pomerania
Mother	Elisabeth of Brandenburg

Life

Swantibor was the eldest son of Duke Wartislaw X of Pomerania-Wolgast and his wife Elisabeth of Brandenburg. He was born around 1454. In the summer semester of 1462, when he was about eight years old, he was enrolled at the University of Greifswald. This was shortly after a long-running dispute had been settled between the city of Greifswald and the Dukes Wartislaw X and his brother Eric II.[1] The University had been founded by Swantbor's grandfather, Wartislaw IX; Swantibor was the first member of the House of Griffins to be enrolled here. In the winter semester of 1462–1463, Swantibor was elected rector of the University, to honor his grandfather.

In 1464, Swantibor died of the plague. His younger brother Ertmar died at the same time. Their father had no other children; their mother had a son, Duke Otto III from an earlier marriage to Duke Joachim the Younger. However, Otto III was also killed by the plague in 1464.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Swantibor V, Duke of Pomerania

16. Wartislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania 8. Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania 17. Anne of Mecklenburg-Stargard 4. Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania 18. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg 9. Veronica of Hohenzollern 19. Elisabeth of Meissen 2. Wartislaw X, Duke of Pomerania 20. Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg 10. Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg 21. Agnes of Holstein-Plön 5. Sophia of Saxe-Lauenburg 22. Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 11. Sophia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 23. Catherine of Anhalt-Bernburg 1. Swantibor V, Duke of Pomerania 24. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg 12. Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg 25. Elisabeth of Meissen 6. John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 26. Frederick, Duke of Bavaria 13. Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut 27. Maddalena Visconti 3. Elisabeth of Brandenburg 28. Wenceslas I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (= 22) 14. Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg 29. Cecilia of Carrara (= 23) 7. Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg 30. Rupert I of Legnica 15. Barbara of Legnica 31. Hedwig of Sagan

Numeral

The assignment of numerals to the Dukes in the House of Griffins had always been complicated. Confusion is caused by different authors assigning different numerals to the dukes.[2] The modern approach is to assign numerals only to members of the House of Griffins who reached adulthood. Under this approach, Swantibor would not be assigned a numeral. Older sources, however, assigned numerals to all males members of the house. Under that approach, this Swantibor would be Swantibor V.

See also

• List of Pomeranian duchies and dukes

References

• Martin Wehrmann: Genealogie des pommerschen Herzogshauses, Verlag Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung, Stettin, 1937, p. 105

Footnotes

1. Martin Wehrmann: Geschichte von Pommern, vol. 2, 2nd ed., Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha, 1921, reprinted: Augsburg, 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6, p. 210
2. Martin Wehrmann: Genealogie des pommerschen Herzogshauses, Verlag Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung, Stettin, 1937, p. 15.