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- After John I's resignation, Albert II ruled with his minor nephews Albert III, Eric I and John II, who by 1296 definitely partitioned Saxony, providing Saxe-Lauenburg for the brothers, and Saxe-Wittenberg for their uncle Albert II.
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From the 14th century, Saxe-Lauenburg termed itself as Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen). However, Saxony as a naming for the area comprising the older Duchy of Saxony in its borders before 1180 still prevailed.
The definite partitioning of the Duchy of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg), jointly ruled by the brothers Albert III, Eric I and John II, and Saxe-Wittenberg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Wittenberg), ruled by Albert II, took place before September 20, 1296.
But even then the act of sub-dividing the remaining territory between siblings did not cease. Division into the two halves of Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg was confirmed in 1296. The latter eventually succeeded in gaining permanent use of the lucrative and important title, 'Elector of Saxony'.
In 1295/6, the three disconnected pieces of Saxony were legally partitioned, with two of them, Saxe-Wittenberg and Saxe-Lauenburg, both claiming the Saxon electoral dignity. In the election of 1314, the two lines of Saxon electors voted differently; the elector of Saxe-Lauenburg voted for Frederick the Fair while Saxe-Wittenberg voted for Louis ...
When Henry the Lion was outlawed by the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1180, the duchy was broken up, and only two small and widely separated territories retained the Saxon name: Saxe-Lauenburg, southeast of Holstein, and Saxe-Wittenberg, along the middle Elbe (now north of Leipzig).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Son. Ruled Saxe-Lauenburg after 1272. 1260 - 1272: Albert III (II) Brother. Ruled jointly. Ruled Saxe-Wittenberg after 1272. 1272 - 1356: At some point after 1272, and by 1296 at the latest, John and Albert divide their Saxony between them. Saxe-Lauenburg is formed in the west while Saxe-Wittenberg is formed in the east.
The three brothers formally divide their territory into Saxe-Mölln-Bergedorf (the senior Lauenburg branch, with Bergedorf being added in 1321) and Saxe-Ratzeburg (the junior Lauenburg branch). Saxe-Mölln-Bergedorf (Saxony)
