Tenth Generation

13. Joachim II "Hector" VON BRANDENBURG (+)³ was born on 13 January 1505 in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ He died on 3 January 1571 at the age of 65 in Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ Life Sketch: "Joachim II Hektor, (born January 13, 1505, Kölln an der Spree, Brandenburg—died January 3, 1571, Jagdschloss Köpenick, Brandenburg), elector of Brandenburg who, while supporting the Holy Roman emperor, tolerated the Reformation in his lands and resisted imperial efforts at re-Catholicization.

The elder son of Joachim I, Joachim II was given the Old (Altmark) and Middle Marks of Brandenburg on his father's death in 1535. Although he remained a Catholic, he sympathized with the Reformation and tolerated Protestantism in his lands from 1539 on. His religious liberalism was rewarded when the Brandenburg estates twice paid his considerable debts. In the disputes between the Emperor and Germany's Protestant princes, Joachim tried to reconcile the two parties. He sided with Charles V during the wars against the Schmalkaldic League of Protestant princes. After the Protestant defeat at the Battle of Mühlberg (1547), he persuaded Philip the Magnanimous, landgrave of Hesse, to surrender and was instrumental in securing a pardon for John Frederick I the Magnanimous of Saxony, who had been condemned to death. Joachim supported the Augsburg Interim (1548) and played a major role in the negotiations leading to the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which reestablished peace in Germany between the warring religious factions. Finally, in 1569, two years before his death, he received the duchy of Prussia as a fief from King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland." He was buried in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.³ in the Dominikanerkirche.

Joachim II "Hector" VON BRANDENBURG (+) and Magdalene VON SACHSEN (+) were married on 6 November 1524 in Dresden, Sachsen (Saxony) Province, Margraviate of Brandenburg.^1,3 Magdalene VON SACHSEN (+)³ was born on 7 March 1507.³ She died on 25 January 1534 at the age of 26.³ She was buried in Berlin, Brandenburg Province, Kingdom of Preussen (Prussia).³ in the Dominikanerkirche.

Joachim II "Hector" VON BRANDENBURG (+) and Magdalene VON SACHSEN (+) had the following children: