List of the margraves of Lusatia
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
- Gero, Margrave of the Ostmark (937–965)
Margraves of Lusatia
965-1303
- Hodo I. (965-993)
- Gero (993-1015) → from 1002 only in the westernmost part
- Thietmar (1015–1030) → from 1015 only in the westernmost part
- Hodo II. (1030-1032) → up to 1031 only in the westernmost part
- Boleslaw I of Poland (1002-1025)
- Mieszko II of Poland (1025-1031)
- Dietrich I. (1032-1034)
- Ekkehard (1034-1046)
- Dedo I (1046-1069)
- Dedo II (1069-1069)
- Dedo I. (1069-1075) → again
- Vratislav II of Bohemia (1076-1081)
- Henry I (1081–1103)
- Henry II (1103-1123)
- Wiprecht (1123-1124)
- Albrecht (1124–1131)
- Henry III. (1131–1135)
- Conrad I (1136-1157)
- Dietrich II. (1156-1185)
- Dedo III (1185–1190)
- Conrad II. (1190-1210)
- Dietrich III. (1210-1221)
- Henry IV (1221–1288)
- Friedrich (1288)
- Dietrich IV. (1288-1303)
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.
- Otto I. (1303-1308)
- Waldemar (1308-1319)
- Ludwig I. (1319-1323)
- Ludwig II. (1323-1351)
- Ludwig III. (1351-1365)
- Otto II (1365-1367)
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.
- Charles I (1367-1378)
- Wenceslas (1378-1419)
- Sigismund (1420-1437)
- Albrecht (1438–1439)
- Ladislaus (Władysław) I. (1440–1457)
- George (1457–1471)
- Matthias Corvinus (1469–1490) → as an anti-king only in the neighboring Bohemian countries, including Lausitz
- Władysław II. (1471-1516)
- Ludwig IV. (1516–1526)
- Ferdinand I (1526-1564)
- Maximilian (1564-1576)
- Rudolf (1576–1611)
- Matthias (1611-1619)
- Frederick II (1619-1620 / 1621)
- Ferdinand II. (1620 / 21-1635)
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.
- 1635–1656 Johann Georg I of Saxony
- 1656–1691 Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg
- 1691–1694 Christian II of Saxony-Merseburg
- 1694–1694 Christian III. Moritz von Sachsen-Merseburg , under the administration of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony and under the tutelage of his mother Erdmuth Dorothea von Sachsen-Zeitz
- 1694–1731 Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Merseburg , until 1712 under the administration of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony and under the tutelage of his mother Erdmuth Dorothea von Sachsen-Zeitz
- 1731–1738 Heinrich von Sachsen-Merseburg
- 1738–1763 Friedrich August II of Saxony
- 1763 Friedrich Christian of Saxony
- 1763–1806 Friedrich August III. of Saxony the righteous
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 .