186:). After this an arrangement was agreed between Prince-Elector Wenceslas and Albert, on the one hand and the widow of Magnus II and her sons on the other. It was agreed that the land would belong, undivided, to the two
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broke out between Saxe-Wittenberg and
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Albert was backed by his uncle the Prince-Elector Wenceslas of Saxony (Saxe-Wittenberg). On 25 July 1373, Duke Magnus was killed in a battle near
194:, i.e. the succession would pass to the Ascanians again. In order that this plan could also be reinforced by family ties, in 1374 Albert of Saxe-Lüneburg married the widow of Magnus II, Catharina and chose
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as his home, which he made a residence in 1378. The two still underage sons of Magnus also married into the House of
Ascania in 1386. He would rule the Principality of Lüneburg jointly with his uncle
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from Saxe-Wittenberg and, after their deaths, would be transferred to the sons of the fallen duke, Magnus II. And that it should continue to alternate after the deaths of the
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for the eventual enfeoffment of the state to his grandson, but backed away again in the years that followed, because he feared the influence of Albert's uncles,
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of Saxe-Wittenberg, and his (Otto's) wife
Elisabeth, daughter of Duke
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218:and 11 May 1374 in Celle. They had one daughter:
158:with Brunswick-Lüneburg's Wolfenbüttel line of the
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742:John I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
222:Helene of Saxe-Wittenberg (1385–?)
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345:Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
320:17. Helene of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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113:Albrecht von Sachsen-Wittenberg
98:Elisabeth of Brünswick-Lüneburg
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1242:Otto von Heinemann (1875), "
1224:Drei Kastanien Verlag 1999,
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1362:1385 deaths
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1274:before 1350
148:Wenceslas I
41:before 1350
1336:Categories
117:Wittenberg
59:Wittenberg
52:1385-06-28
1313:Wenceslas
1308:1370–1385
1297:Magnus II
200:Wenceslas
188:Ascanians
167:Magnus II
152:Rudolf II
77:Spouse(s)
227:Ancestry
140:Lüneburg
125:Rudolf I
1201:Sources
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184:Gehrden
180:Deister
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