Biography[]
Johann V von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 4 Sep 1504 in Dessau, Anhalt-Saxony, Germany to Ernst I von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst (1455 - 1516) and Margaretha von Munsterberg (1473 - 1530) and died on 4 Feb 1551 in Zerbst, Anhalt-Zerbst, Germany. He married on 15 Feb 1534 in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany to Margaret von Hohenzollern, Princess of Brandenburg. She was born on 29 Sep 1511 in Brandenburg, Germany to Joachim I Nestor von Hohenzollern, Prince Elector of Brandenburg (1484 - 1535) and Princess von Oldenburg of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1485 - 1555) and died in 1577 in Germany.
Lineage[]
Siegfried von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst (c.1230 - 1298)
m. Catherine Birgersdortter of Bjelbo (1245 - 1298)
Albert I, von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst ( - 1316)
m. Agness von Brandenburg ( - 1329)
Albert II von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst ( - 1362)
Beatrice von Saxony-Wittenberg ( - aft.1345)
Johann II von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst ( - 1382)
m. Elizabeth von Henneberg-Schleusingen ( - )
Sigismund I von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst (c.1368 - 1405)
m. Juta von Querfurt (c.1370 - 1411)
Ernst I von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst (1455 - 1516)
m. Margaretha von Munsterberg (1473 - 1530)
Johann V von Ascania, Prince von Anhalt-Zerbst (1504 - 1551)
m. Margaret von Hohenzollern, Princess of Brandenburg (1511 - 1577)
Princess Marie von Anhalt-Zerbst (1538 - 1563)
m. Albrecht X, Count von Barby-Muhlingen ( - )
Maria von Barby-Hilgen (1563 - 1619)
m. George III, Count von Erbach-Breuberg (1548 - 1705)
Dorothea von Erbach (1593 - 1643)
m. Ludwig Bernhard von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1590 - 1650)
Sofie Juliana von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Pfedelbach (1620 - c.1681)
m. Wolfgang Georg I, County von Castell-Remlingen (c.1610 - 1668)
Wolfgang Dietrich, County von Castell-Remlingen (1641 - 1709)
m. Dorothea Renata, Countess von Zinzindorf-Pottendorf (1669 - 1743)
Sophie Theodora, Countess von Castell-Relingen (1703 - 1777)
m. Heinrich XXIX, Count von Reuss-Ebersdorff (1699 - 1747)
Johanna Dorothea, Countess von Reuss-Ebersdorff (1743 - 1801)
m. Christof Friedrich Levin von Trotta-Treyden (1743 - 1772)
Friedericka Theodora Elizabeth von Trotta-Treyden (1772 - 1791)
m. Friederich Ludwig von Tschirschirschkhy und Bogendorff (1769 - 1829)
Augusta Theodore von Tschirschky und Bogendorff
m. Baron Heinrich August von Gersdorff (1793 - 1847)
Dr. Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff (1820 - 1883)
m. Caroline Choate (1834 - 1889)
Carl August de Gersdorff (1865 - 1944)
m. Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868 - 1941)
Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff (1896 - 1975)
m. Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892 - 1970)
Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014)
m. Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941)
Chevalier Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee, KJ (b. 1982)