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as new emperor: Albert II signed an elector pact on 29 November 1291 that he would vote the same as Wenceslaus. On 27 April 1292 Albert II, with his nephews still minor, wielded the Saxon
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The last document, mentioning the joint government of Albert II with his nephews as Saxon fellow dukes dates back to 1295. The definite partitioning of the Duchy of Saxony into
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In 1269, 1272 and 1282 the brothers gradually divided their governing competences within the three territorially unconnected Saxon areas (one called
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In 1288 Albert II applied to King Rudolph I for the enfeoffment of his son and heir Duke Rudolf I with the
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and became his son-in-law. After the death of their father Albert I in 1260 Albert II jointly ruled the
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Albert II represented the jointly ruling brothers. In return Rudolph I had married his daughter
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to Albert II. After John I had resigned in 1282 in favour of his three minor sons
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Die Fürsten des Landes: Herzöge und Grafen von Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg
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Venceslaus of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (?–17 March 1327, Wittenberg),
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Elisabeth of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (?–3 March 1341), ∞ 1317
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and his third wife Helen of Brunswick and Lunenburg, a daughter of
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and the third around Wittenberg), thus preparing a partition.
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Cordula Bornefeld, "Die Herzöge von Sachsen-Lauenburg", in:
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Anna of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (?–22 November 1327,
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Otto of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (?–1349), ∞ Lucia of
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In 1282 Albert II married Agnes of Habsburg, daughter of
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Rudolph I of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Wittenberg)
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succeeded in bringing Albert II in favour of electing
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Wittenberg upon Elbe
Aken
Albert I of Saxony
Otto the Child
Rudolph I of Germany
Roman king
Duchy of Saxony
John I

Land of Hadeln
Otterndorf
Lauenburg upon Elbe
imperial election in 1273
Agnes of Habsburg
Eric I
John II
Albert III
Electorate of Saxony
House of Wettin

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