Departures of note

Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast, is remembered less for his rule than for his embrace of piracy. Around 1395, he built a fort and port at Ahrenshoop to support his raiding activities, but the city of Rostock destroyed it that same year. He then allowed the Victual Brothers, a pirate band that preyed on Hanseatic League shipping in the Baltic, to winter on the Peene river and to use the Bay of Greifswald as a base. In 1398, he signed a treaty with the Teutonic Knights promising to stop supporting the pirates, yet he continued his own piratical expeditions and was once captured by the Hanseatic League in Copenhagen's harbor.

From 1400 to 1403, Barnim joined the dukes of Mecklenburg-Werle in their campaigns against the city of Lübeck, and he was wounded at Lübeck's gates. In 1405, he contracted the Black Death. Hoping to escape the disease, he set out on a pilgrimage to the holy spring at Kenz, near Barth, but died en route at Pütnitz on 22 September 1405. He was buried in Kenz, where a large wooden statue resembling him was placed in the church.

Barnim was born around 1365, the son of Wartislaw VI of Pomerania-Wolgast and Anne of Mecklenburg-Stargard. He succeeded his father as duke in 1394. He married Veronica of Hohenzollern, daughter of Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and they had at least two sons: Barnim VII and Wartislaw IX, both of whom later became dukes of Pomerania.