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BARNIM III

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BARNIM III . (c. 1303-1368), called the See also:Great, was the son of See also:Otto I., See also:duke of See also:Pomerania-See also:Stettin, and took a prominent See also:part in the See also:defence and See also:government of the duchy before .his See also:father's +16 See also:death in 1344. A See also:long and intermittent struggle with the representatives of the See also:emperor See also:Louis IV., who had invested his own son Louis with the See also:mark of See also:Brandenburg, enabled him to gain military experience and distinction. A victory gained by him in See also:August 1332 was mainly instrumental in freeing Pomerania for a See also:time from the vexatious claim of Brandenburg to supremacy over the duchy, which moreover he extended by See also:conquest. Barnim assisted the emperor See also:Charles IV. in his struggle with the See also:family of See also:Wittelsbach. He died on the 24th of August 1368.

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