Erich I. (Saxony-Lauenburg)

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One of the seals of Erich I.

Erich I of Saxony-Lauenburg (* before 1285; † 1360 in Nienburg / Weser ) was Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg from 1285 to 1360 . He was the son of Duke Johann I von Sachsen-Lauenburg († 1285) from the Ascanian family .

Erich I had only prepared for spiritual tasks in Magdeburg and had become a member of the cathedral chapter there . He ruled initially together with his brothers Albrecht III. von Sachsen-Lauenburg and Johann II. von Sachsen-Lauenburg . After the death of her father, however, there were soon several country divisions, which split up the national territory as a real division:

  • around 1295/96 the separation in Saxony-Wittenberg and Saxony-Lauenburg
  • In 1305 Sachsen-Lauenburg was divided into three lines after Duke Johann I in the remaining Lauenburg part.

However, the dispute over the inheritance was overlaid and delayed by the dispute over the Saxon-Lauenburg vote . After the death of the childless Duke Albrecht III. in 1308 Erich grew I. whose third again, for which he the jointure had to wear his mother. In 1321 he had to hand over Bergedorf to his brother Johann II. († 1321). With this, the division into two independently operating lines of the house without a common government was completed and completed. The Bergedorf-Mölln and Ratzeburg-Lauenburg lines also remained connected by dividing the income from the southern Elbe region of Hadeln .

Erich I included his son Duke Erich II early on in government affairs from 1339 and took up residence on the Riepenburg in what is now Kirchwerder . He was ousted from there due to a dispute between the Lüneburg dukes and his son and died on the trip to Hoya in Nienburg.

Erich I took part in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1346 and received the knighthood at the Holy Grave.

family

Erich I married Elisabeth of Pomerania († October 16, 1349) in 1316, the daughter of Bogislaw IV. The following children are known:

literature

Peter von Kobbe, History and Description of the Country of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Volume 2, Altona 1836, Pages 69–81 weblink

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valmar Cramer: The order of knights of the Holy Grave from the Crusades to the present. , JP Bachem, Cologne 1952, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Erich I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erich I of Saxony-Lauenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
DATE OF BIRTH before 1285
DATE OF DEATH 1360
Place of death Nienburg / Weser