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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-Lauenburg c. 1400 (green), including the tracts south of the Elbe and the Amt Neuhaus, but without Hadeln out of the map downstream the Elbe. The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries; Danish: Hertugdømmet Sachsen-Lauenborg), was a reichsfrei duchy that existed from 1296 to 1803 and again from ...
After his death in 1260, his sons John I and Albert II (r. 1260–1298) divided his land into the Duchies of Saxe-Wittenberg and Saxe-Lauenburg. Initially the brothers ruled together, but after Albert became burgrave of Magdeburg in 1269, a final division of the duchies under the two rulers became final and was formalized in 1296.
Son. Probably poisoned while relieving Bohemia. 1419 - 1422: Albert IV (III) 'the Poor' Brother. Numbering ignores Saxe-Lauenburg. 1422: Rudolf III had already outlived his male heirs before he had probably been poisoned on his way to provide relief for the imperial forces in Bohemia. His younger brother, Albert, had succeeded him as ruler of ...
Now, upon the death of his son, it is his grandsons who effectively partition the remaining Saxon lands. At first the division is largely theoretical, but it appears to take effect from or soon after 1272, and is further affirmed in 1296. 1260 - 1272: John I: Son. Ruled Saxe-Lauenburg after 1272. 1260 - 1272: Albert III (II) Brother.
In 1401 Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg inherited Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln from the Ascanian Elder Lauenburg line there extinct upon Eric IV's death. The reunited duchy continued under the old name of Saxe-Lauenburg. Eric IV: 1354 1368–1401 21 June 1411/12 Saxe-Ratzeburg: Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg 8 April 1373 ten children In 1401 reunited Saxe ...
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The definite partitioning of the Duchy of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg, jointly ruled by the brothers Albert III, Eric I and John II and Saxe-Wittenberg, ruled by Albert II took place before 20 September 1296, when the Vierlande, Sadelbande (Land of Lauenburg), the Land of Ratzeburg, the Land of Darzing (later Amt Neuhaus), and the Land of Hadeln are mentioned as the separate territory of the ...
