Click to expand/collapse all other details

Male Prince Bernhard of Anhalt-Bernburg Click to view Prince Bernhard of Anhalt-Bernburg in the family tree

Bernhard was born in 1218 in Aschersleben, Sachsen, Prussia.1   Bernhard's father was Prince Heinrich of Anhalt I and his mother was Princess Irmgard of Thuringia.  His paternal grandparents were Duke Bernhard of Saxony III and Princess Judyta of Great Poland; his maternal grandparents were Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia I and Countess Sofie of Sommerschenburg. He had five brothers and four sisters, named Albrecht, Hermann, Magnus, Otto, Siegfried, Sofie, Jutte, Hedwig and Gertrude.  He was the third oldest of the ten children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I34045

Page last modified