Follower of the Habsburgs By participating as Imperial Commissioner in the diets in Augsburg in December 1525 and in Speyer in August 1526, Casimir once again proved his loyalty to the Habsburg imperial family. At the coronation of the future German Emperor Ferdinand I as King of Bohemia in 1527, Casimir, who was seriously marked by disease, joined a military campaign in Hungary against John Zápolya. Because his brother George the Pious also joined, Casimir returned to appoint a stadtholder for their Franconian possessions and to raise additional troops. In July 1527, he reached the Hungarian border. The forts on the Danube surrendered to him, and he moved on to Buda. On 27 September 1527, he died of dysentery in Buda, in the presence of his brother George and King Ferdinand, to whom he entrusted the care of his five-year-old son Albert II Alcibiades. George ruled Brandenburg-Kulmbach while Albert was a minor. Theodore Hirsch concludes his biography with the statement that because of the atrocities Casimir committed, so far no biographer had written a balanced description of his life. Marriage and issue On 25 August 1518, Casimir married Susanna of Bavaria, the daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria and Kunigunde of Austria. Emperor Maximilian I, the maternal uncle of the bride, also participated in the glamorous wedding in 1518, during the Diet of Augsburg. Casimir's close ties to the imperial family were visible again at the coronation of Emperor Charles V, where he was given the honor of being the First Cutter at the coronation dinner. After Casimur's death, his widow Susanna married (childlessly) her kinsman Otto Henry of Neuburg (in 1556-1559 the Elector Palatine), who treated Susanna's children like his own and promoted them. Casimir and Susanna had five children: Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, married in 1557, Elector Palatine Frederick III (1515–1576). They were the parents of Louis VI, Elector Palatine. Catherine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1520–1521) Albert II Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522–1557) Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1524–1558), married in 1551, Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1529–1577). Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1525) Ancestry References and sources Theodolinde von Paschwitz, Markgraf Kasimir. Ein historischer Roman aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, Regensburg, 1910 External links Casimir in Kirchberg an der Jagst – Schicksal einer hohenlohe-fränkischen Stadt vol. I (after a manuscript from the legacy of war court counciller Theodor Sandel at webisphere.de) Footnotes House of Hohenzollern 1481 births 1527 deaths People from Ansbach Margraves of