Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

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Albert V
Albert IV
MotherBeata of Schwerin

Albert V of Saxe-Lauenburg (mid 1330s – 1370) was the second son of Duke

Eric III
.

Albert V, short in money, sold – after consenting with his brother Eric III – the

marks. The parties agreed upon a repurchase, however, only by the duke or his heirs for themselves, but not as a middleperson for someone else.[1] Lübeck considered this acquisition crucial, since Mölln was an important stage for trade between Brunswick and Lunenburg
– here especially salt – via Lübeck to Scandinavia and back. Therefore, Lübeck manned Mölln with armed guards maintaining law and order on the roads.

However, thrifty Albert V, plotted for new sources of revenues. So Albert and his cousin

Albert II of Bremen, freed the streets northeast of the city from the brigandage by Eric II and Albert V, conquering the latter's castle in Bergedorf
.

By 25 January 1366 Albert married Catherine of Werle-Güstrow (*?–after 17 December 1402*), daughter of Lord Nicholas III of Werle-Güstrow. Catherine and Albert had no children.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Elisabeth Raiser, Städtische Territorialpolitik im Mittelalter: eine vergleichende Untersuchung ihrer verschiedenen Formen am Beispiel Lübecks und Zürichs, Lübeck and Hamburg: Matthiesen, 1969, (Historische Studien; 406), p. 88, simultaneously: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1969.
Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Born: mid-1330s Died: 1370
Regnal titles
Preceded by
John III
Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln

1356–1370
Succeeded by
Eric III