Saxe-Wittenberg
Saxe-Wittenberg was an Ascanian duchy centred on Wittenberg. In 1337 Duke Rudolf I contested the Saxon electoral vote with the Saxe-Lauenburg line.
Rudolf supported Charles IV, whose Golden Bull of 1356 granted his line the exclusive Saxon electoral dignity. After the Wittenberg Ascanians died out in 1422, King Sigismund enfeoffed the Wettin Frederick IV of Meissen, joining Wittenberg to his lands. The former duchy passed to the Ernestine line in the 1485 partition of Leipzig.
Characters
- Albert the Bear
- Bernhard, Count of Anhalt
- Agnes of Habsburg
- Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin
- Albert I, Duke of Saxony
- Albert II of Saxony
- Elisabeth of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Elisabeth of Hesse
- Elisabeth of Saxony
- Jutta of Brandenburg
- Kunigunde of Poland
- Miesko of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Otto of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Otto of Saxony
- Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Rudolf II of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Wenceslas I of Saxe-Wittenberg