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Faced with large debts 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 . 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. ANCESTORS FAMILY AND CHILDREN John George was married three times. Firstly, he married Princess Sofie Of Liegnitz (ca. 1525 – 6 February 1546 ) in 1545 and they had the following children: # Joachim Frederick ( 27 January 1546 – 1608 ) Secondly, he married Margravine Sabine Of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 -daughter of George, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Ansbach ) in 1548 and they had the following children: # Georg Albrecht ( 1555 – 1557 ) # Erdmuthe ( 1561 – 1623 ), married in 1577 to Duke Joachim Friedrich Of Pomerania # Anna Marie ( 1567 – 1618 ), married in 1581 to Duke Barnim X Of Pomerania # Sofie ( 6 June 1568 – 1622 ), married in 1582 to Elector Christian I Of Saxony Thirdly, he married Princess Elisabeth Of Anhalt-Zerbst ( 5/15 September 1563 – 5 October 1607 ) in 1577 and they had the following children: # Christian ( 1581 – 1655 ) # Magdalene ( 7 January 1582 – 4 May 1616 ), married in 1598 to Landgrave Louis V Of Hesse-Darmstadt # Joachim Ernst ( 1583 – 1625 ) # Agnes ( 1584 – 1629 ), married: ## in 1604 Duke Philipp Julius Of Pomerania ; ## in 1628 Duke Franz Karl Of Saxe-Lauenburg # Frederick ( 1588 – 1611 ) # Elisabeth Sofie ( 4 July 1589 – 24 December 1629 ), married: ## in 1613 to Prince Janusz Radziwill ; ## in 1628 to Duke Julius Heinrich Of Saxe-Lauenburg # Dorothea Sibylle ( 19 October 1590 – 9 March 1625 ), married in 1610 to Duke John Christian Of Liegnitz # Georg Albrecht ( 1591 – 1615 ) # Sigismund ( 20 November 1592 – 30 April 1640 ) # Johann ( 1597 – 1627 ) # Johann Georg ( 1598 – 1637 ) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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