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Other articles where Saxe-Lauenburg is discussed: Ascanian Dynasties: …were divided into two duchies, Saxe-Lauenburg in the northwest and Saxe-Wittenberg in central Germany, for the sons of Bernard’s son Albert. Saxe-Wittenberg, which secured the Saxon electoral title in 1356, passed in 1423, on the extinction of the Ascanian branch there, to the margraves of Meissen (of the House of…
This division was confirmed in 1305, creating Saxe-Mölln and Saxe-Ratzeburg. It was the eldest of the three brothers, John II, who commanded the senior Lauenburg line from Saxe-Mölln, while Eric and Albert, his two younger brothers, formed the junior Lauenburg line in Saxe-Ratzeburg. John also commanded the electoral privilege for the three ...
1361. The first two rulers in Saxe-Ratzeburg to use the name Eric are the first Saxon rulers at all with that name. The third of their number is accounted for by the duke of Saxe-Mölln-Bergedorf, with the later Eric IV continuing the joint numbering. 1368 - 1401. Eric IV of Saxe-Lauenburg. Son.
Saxe-Altenburg is part of Saxe-Gotha between 1672-1826, when it regains its autonomy and survives until the end of the First World War in 1918. 1630 - 1632 Sweden enters the Thirty Years' War in summer 1630, albeit without either Saxe-Meissen , Saxe-Lauenburg , or Saxe-Coburg taking part.
When Albert died in 1260 Saxony was divided. Lauenburg, or Saxe-Lauenburg, as it is generally called, became a separate duchy ruled by his son John, and had its own lines of dukes for over 400 years, one of them, Magnus I. (d. 1543), being responsible for the introduction of the reformed teaching into the land.
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg was founded in 1296 as part of Ascanian Germany. In 1305, it was partitioned and was not reunited until 1401. In 1554, it became Protestant and I start tracking place names at that point. In 1689, the Ascanian line died out and the Duchy was awarded to Brunswick-Lüneburg of Brunswick-Guelphic Germany. (From that ...
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Germany. Lauenburg, former duchy of northern Germany, stretching from south of Lübeck to the Elbe and bounded on the west and east, respectively, by the former duchies of Holstein and Mecklenburg, an area that since 1946 has been part of the federal Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. A duchy under the Ascanian dynasty from the 13th century ...
