List of the margraves of Lusatia

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The Margraviate of Lausitz or the Mark Lausitz for short was created in 965 from the Saxon East Mark and was administered by various Saxon feudal lords. It was a territorial state of the Holy Roman Empire . The rule of the area was controversial and was also claimed by the Polish rulers .

Forerunner Margraves of Lusatia (Saxon East Mark)

937-965

Margraves of Lusatia

965-1303

Dietrich IV. Sold the Lausitz mark in 1303 to the Brandenburg line of the Ascanians . After the Brandenburg Ascanians died out in 1319, parts of the Lausitz region passed to Duke Rudolf of Saxony and Heinrich von Jauer , Duke of Jauer in Silesia , the main part was from 1323-28 by the Wittelsbachers , who with Ludwig the Bavarian from 1314 the Roman German emperors and thus the real feudal lords of the Lausitz region under imperial law, pledged to the Wettins . A new Wettin pledge from 1353 ended in 1364, then Elector Otto von Wittelsbach sold the Lausitz region in 1367 to the Kingdom of Bohemia , where it remained until 1635.

1367-1635

The Czech King Charles I, from 1355 Emperor Charles IV. Of the Holy Roman Empire , incorporated in 1367, the Lausitz in the Bohemian crown whose side land remained Markgrafschaft to the Peace of Prague of 1635. During this time, the kings of Bohemia were also the Margrave the Lausitz.

1635-1815

With the Peace of Prague , the Elector of Saxony was enfeoffed with the margraviate of Lusatia, which remained an independent area. From 1657 it went to the branch line of the dukes of Saxony-Merseburg and in 1738 fell back to the Saxon elector after their extinction in the male line.

Dissolution of the margravate

By resolution of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the margraviate Lausitz was attached to the Kingdom of Prussia and thus formally dissolved. Your area went on in the province of Brandenburg .