Eleventh Generation

14. Johann Georg VON BRANDENBURG (+)³ was born on 11 September 1525 in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ He died on 8 January 1598 at the age of 72 in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ Life Sketch: "He was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571-1598). A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the son of Joachim II Hector (1505-1571), Elector of Brandenburg, and his first wife Magdalena of Saxony (1507-1534).

Faced with large debts of 2.5 million guilder accumulated during the reign of his father, John George instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on the exempt nobility. Though a staunch Lutheran opposed to the rise of Calvinism, he permitted the admission of Calvinist refugees from the wars in the Spanish Netherlands and France. He was succeeded by his son Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg(1546-1508).

Upon the 1568 death of his kinsman Albert I, Duke of Prussia, the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by the latter's underage son Albert Frederick, whose guardians included the elector.

Johann Georg was married three times:
1) Sofie of Liegnitz (1525–1546)
2) Sabine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1529-1575)
3) Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1563-1607), also buried in the Berlin Cathedral." He was buried in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ in the Berliner Dom.

Johann Georg VON BRANDENBURG (+) and Sophie VON LIEGNITZ (+) were married.³ Sophie VON LIEGNITZ (+) was born in 1525.³ She died on 6 February 1546 at the age of 21.³ She was buried in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Kingdom of Preussen (Prussia).³ in the Dominkanerkirche.

Johann Georg VON BRANDENBURG (+) and Sophie VON LIEGNITZ (+) had the following children: