Albert II of Saxony

Albert II (c. 1250–1298), a son of Duke Albert I of Saxony and Helen of Brunswick, ruled the Duchy of Saxony jointly with his elder brother John I from 1260 and later with John's sons. At the 1273 royal election he supported Rudolph of Habsburg and married Rudolph's daughter Agnes.

In 1292 he cast the Saxon vote for Adolf of Nassau. The partition of 1296 left him Saxe-Wittenberg, founding the Wittenberg Ascanian line, and he died near Aken on 25 August 1298.