When his uncle George the Bearded visited, he would organize a fight between Severinus and his older brother Maurice.

In Innsbruck, he stayed at the court of the future emperor Ferdinand I and his wife Anna.

His tomb was looted and destroyed in 1552 by the troops of his own brother Maurice during the Schmalkaldic War.

[2] In 1526, Lucas Cranach the Elder made two portraits of the young Princes Maurice and Severinus.

It is considered an excellent and safe work by Cranach and was included in the overall list of nationally valuable cultural heritage.