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Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

Field	Value
name	Wenceslas I
title	Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
image	Wenzel Herzog von Sachsen.jpg
caption	Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger,
succession	Elector of Saxony
reign	6 December 1370 –
15 May 1388
predecessor	Rudolf II
successor	Rudolf III
house	Ascania
father	Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
mother	Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin
spouse	Cecilia of Carrara
birth_date
death_date
death_place	Celle

15 May 1388 Wenceslas I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg ( – 15 May 1388, in Celle) from the House of Ascania ruled from 1370 to 1388 and was a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire as well as Prince of Lüneburg. He was the son of Rudolf I and his 3rd wife, Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin.

Life

thumb|left|upright|Woodcut of Wenceslaus from the 16th century In 1370 Wenceslas succeeded his brother Rudolf II. In 1376 he took part, as a prince-elector, in the election of Wenceslas IV of Bohemia as King of Germany and in 1377 stood by Emperor Charles IV in the Altmark. He was frequently active in the affairs of the empire on the side of the emperor. Charles IV granted Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg and his uncle Wenceslas I - and their house - the underlying entitlement to Brunswick and Lüneburg, but the two of them were unsuccessful in claiming this right through the Lüneburg War of Succession. In 1388 Wenceslas finally lost his claim at the battle of Winsen an der Aller.

He was in conflict with the Duke of Brabant over the right to carry the Imperial Sword ahead of the emperor.

He made state peace treaties with Anhalt, Magdeburg and Meißen.

During the siege of Celle Wenceslas died suddenly of a serious illness. Even his contemporaries suspected that he had been administered poison and that that was the cause of death. According to other traditional accounts, he died on 18 August 1402 which has however caused confusion over his grave.

Descendants

On 23 January 1376 Wenceslas married Cecilia of Carrara (d. 1435), daughter of Francis of Carrara (born 29 September 1325 in Padua – died 6 October 1393 in Monza), Count of Padua. They had the following children:

Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
Wenceslas (died 1402)
Erich (died as child)
Anna (died 1426) who married Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Albert III (died 1422) Elector of Saxony
Margaret of Saxony who married Bernhard of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ancestors

References

Literature

Lorenz Friedrich Beck: Herrschaft and Territorium des Herzöge of Saxe-Wittenberg (1212–1422). Potsdam, 2000.
Heinrich Kühne: Die Askanier. Drei Kastanien Verlag, 1999.
Georg Hirschfeld: Geschichte der Sächsisch-Askanischen Prince-Electoren. Julius Sittenfeld, Berlin 1884.

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