Background
Wartislaw V was the youngest, posthumous son of Duke Wartislaw IV, who reigned in the Duchy of Pomerania Pomerania-Wolgast, and his wife Elisabeth of Silesia.
Wartislaw V was the youngest, posthumous son of Duke Wartislaw IV, who reigned in the Duchy of Pomerania Pomerania-Wolgast, and his wife Elisabeth of Silesia.
Neustettin is now called Szczecinek. Wartislaw IV died on 1 August 1326. Wartislaw V was born around 1 November 1326.
Wartislav is first mentioned in a document from 1338, which he did not seal.
From 1341, the three brothers ruled jointly and independently. Bogislaw was the most active ruler initially, later Barnim was most active.
Barnim IV died in 1365. They supported Wartislaw V against Bogislaw V. The dispute degenerated into a civil war and Emperor Charles IV intervened.
He authorized a committee of arbitration, which included the Lübeck City Council.
On 25 May 1368, the dukes agreed on a preliminary division of Pomerania-Wolgast, in which Wartislaw V received the Land of Neustettin. The final division was made on 8 June 1372. Wartislaw V died in 1390.
He was probably buried in the monastery at Pudagla.
Wartislaw V was, according to the historian Martin Wehrmann (1861–1937), unmarried and reports to the contrary by some genealogists are incorrect.