Albrecht of Saxe-Lauenburg

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Albrecht ( also: Albert) von Sachsen-Lauenburg (* 1384 ; † March 20, 1421 in Grohnde ) was canon in Münster .

Life

Origin and family

Albert of Saxe-Lauenburg came from the Uradelsgeschlecht the Askanier and was the son of Duke Erich IV. Von Sachsen-Lauenburg and his wife Sophia of Brunswick , daughter of Duke Magnus of Brunswick .

Albert's siblings were

Act

Albert completed his studies in Erfurt and is mentioned in a document in 1406 as a canon of Münster. He also owned canons in Cologne and Hildesheim. Here he had been active as a cathedral scholastic since 1414 and at the same time provost in the parish church of St. Moritz in Hildesheim . Albert died in the Battle of Grohnde in 1421, when the Duke of Braunschweig and the Bishop of Hildesheim were hostile to each other. The duke's troops took the episcopal castle of Grohnde .

After Albert's death, Johannes von Bevern applied for the cathedral priest .

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  • The diocese of Münster 4.2. ( Germania Sacra NF 17.2) The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paulus in Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl, published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York, ISBN 978- 3-11-008508-2 , Germania Sacra NF 17.2 Biographies of the Canons, page 19ff. Digitized.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Germania Sacra , Wilhelm Kohl : NF 17.2, Das Bistum Münster 4.1, p. 544