Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

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Siegfried I
Henry I, Count of Anhalt
MotherIrmgard of Thuringia

Siegfried I (c. 1230 – 25 March 1298), a member of the House of Ascania, ruled as the first Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1252 until his death.

Life

Siegfried was the youngest son of Prince

Henry I of Anhalt by his wife Irmgard, daughter of the Ludovingian landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia. His father had received the Anhalt territory upon the death of Duke Bernhard III of Saxony in 1212 and was raised to the rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
six years later.

In 1247, after the death of the Thuringian landgrave

War of the Thuringen Succession. During the conflict, the young prince occupied the County palatine (German: Pfalzgrafschaft), by right of his mother. Later he renounced the county in favor of the Wettin margrave Henry III of Meissen
in exchange for a monetary compensation.

Anhalt after the 1252 partition, Siegfried's territories in green

After the death of his father in 1252, in accordance with the family law of the Ascanian dynasty, Siefgried and his elder brothers

Imperial election, though the princes eventually elected Count Rudolf of Habsburg
king.

In 1290 Siegfried renounced his rule to become a preaching monk (German: Predigermönch). As a result, his eldest son Prince

Köthen Castle
in 1298.

Marriage and issue

On 17 October 1259, Siegfried married

Waldemar of Sweden
by right of their mother. They had ten children:

  1. Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 17 August 1316).
  2. Henry (d. 13 December 1340 / 28 March 1341?), Provost of Halberstadt.
  3. Siegfried (d. 25 February 1317), a canon in Magdeburg.
  4. Hermann (d. aft. 24 June 1328), a Teutonic knight, Comtur at Dessau in 1327.
  5. Agnes (d. aft. 17 August 1316), Abbess of
    Coswig
    .
  6. Hedwig (d. aft. 24 February 1319), Abbess of Coswig.
  7. Elisabeth (d. aft. 17 August 1316), a nun in Coswig.
  8. Judith (d. aft. 17 August 1316), a nun in Coswig.
  9. Konstanze (d. aft. 17 August 1316), a nun in Coswig.
  10. Sophie (d. aft. 9 January 1290), married Ludwig of Hakeborn.
Siegfried I of Anhalt
Born: c. 1230 Died: 25 March 1298
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Henry I of Anhalt
 Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
1252–1298 		Succeeded by
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