Philip II, Duke of Pomerania

Philip II, Duke of Pomerania was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of PomeraniaStettin and is considered among the one of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He married Sophia of SchleswigHolsteinSonderburg in 1607. The marriage remained childless.

Philipp was born onJuly 1573 in Neuenkamp, which later became Franzburg in Pomerania, as the eldest son of Duke Bogislaw XIII of PomeraniaBarth and his first wife, Clara of Brunswick. He grew up in his fathers small residence in Barth. Although he was the secondborn son of Duke Philip I of PomeraniaWolgast, when Philip Is inheritance was divided among the Pomeranian dukes on 1569, waived his rights to a share, in favour of his younger brother Ernest Louis. He had been compensation with an apanage consisting of the district of Barth and the secularized Cistercian monastery at Neuenkamp.

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