Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. Dessau, 12 June 1516), was a German prince member of the House of Ascania and ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

He was the second son of George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau but the first born by his fourth wife Anna, daughter of Albert VIII, Count of Lindau-Ruppin.

Life

In 1473, after the death of his father, Ernest inherited the Dessau alongside with his younger brother George II, Sigismund III and Rudolph IV, according to the old House of Ascania Family Laws, but without any division of their state.

The deaths of Sigismund III (1487), George II (1509) and Rudolph IV (1510) without surviving male issue left Ernest as the sole ruler of Anhalt-Dessau until his death.

Marriage and Issue

In Cottbus on 20 January 1494 Ernest married with Margarete (b. Breslau, 25 August 1473 - d. Dessau, 28 June 1530), daughter of Henry I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and granddaughter of George of Poděbrady (Podiebrad), King of Bohemia. They had four sons:
#Thomas (b. Dessau, 27 November 1503 - d. 1503).
#John V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Zerbst (b. Dessau, 4 September 1504 - d. Zerbst, 4 February 1551).
#George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. Dessau, 15 August 1507 - d. Dessau, 17 October 1553).
#Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 7 August 1509 - d. Dessau, 6 December 1561).


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