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Margraviate of Landsberg

German march in Saxony-Anhalt (1261–1347)

Margraviate of Landsberg
Summary

German march in Saxony-Anhalt (1261–1347)

FieldValue
native_nameMarkgrafschaft Landsberg
conventional_long_nameMargraviate of Landsberg
common_nameLandsberg
eraMiddle Ages
statusState of the Holy Roman Empire
empireHoly Roman Empire
government_typeMargraviate
title_leaderMargraves
leader1Theodoric of Landsberg
year_leader11265–1285
leader2Frederick Tuta
year_leader21285–1291
year_start1261
year_end1347
event_preTheodoric I, "Margrave of Landsberg"
date_pre1156
event_startPartitioned from Lusatia
event1Acquired by Margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg
date_event11291
event2Inherited by Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal
date_event21318
event_endSold to Margrave Frederick II of Meissen
p1March of Lusatia
image_p1[[File:Armoiries Basse-Lusace.svg20pxMarch of Lusatia]]
s1Margraviate of Meissen
image_s1[[File:Wappen Landkreis Meissen.svg20pxMargraviate of Meissen]]
image_coatWappen Mark Landsberg.svg
image_mapOsterland 1250.PNG
image_map_captionMargraviate of Landsberg (Osterland) after 1261
capitalWeißenfels

| | | | | | | | | The Margraviate of Landsberg () was a march of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 13th to the 14th century under the rule of the Wettin dynasty. It was named after Landsberg Castle in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.

Geography

The territory located in the historic Osterland region comprised the westernmost part of the March of Lusatia (Saxon Eastern March) between the rivers Saale and Mulde. It comprised the margravial fortress of Landsberg and the nearby town of Delitzsch, as well as the adjacent Leipzig area formerly part of the Margraviate of Meissen. It stretched down to the former County of Groitzsch in the south, and up to Sangerhausen in the west, including the town of Weißenfels which became the margravial residence. It also comprised the castle of Grimma and the former Pleissnerland town of Zwickau.

History

Landsberg coat of arms depicted in the Dresden [[Fürstenzug

Upon the death of Margrave Conrad in 1156, the Wettin domains of Meissen and Lusatia were re-arranged. Conrad's younger son Margrave Theodoric I of Lusatia had Landsberg Castle erected until 1174 and began to style himself a "Margrave of Landsberg".

However, an Imperial State in its own right was not established until in 1261, when Margrave Henry the Illustrious (against legal provisions) split off the western Landsberg territory from the March of Lusatia as a separate margraviate for his second son Theodoric. After Dietrich's son Frederick Tuta had died without male heirs in 1291, his uncle Margrave Albert II of Meissen sold it to the Ascanian margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg.

In 1327 the Welf duke Magnus I of Brunswick-Lüneburg inherited Landsberg by marrying Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal, the sister of the last Ascanian margrave Henry II and also the niece of the German king Louis IV, who had seized the Brandenburg possessions in 1320. Duke Magnus sold Landsberg to Margrave Frederick II of Meissen in 1347, and in this way the former margraviate finally fell back to the House of Wettin.

Margraves

[[House of Wettin]]

  • Theodoric, 1265–1285, son of Margrave Henry the Illustrious
  • Frederick Tuta, 1285–1291, son, also Margrave of Lusatia from 1288 Fell to Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, sold to Brandenburg

[[House of Ascania]]

  • 1291-1298: Conrad, Otto IV of the Arrow, Henry I Lackland, Otto V the Tall, Albert III
  • 1298-1300: Conrad, Otto IV of the Arrow, Henry I Lackland, Albert III, Herman I the Tall
  • 1300-1304: Conrad, Otto IV of the Arrow, Henry I Lackland, Herman I the Tall
  • 1304-1308: Otto IV of the Arrow, Henry I Lackland, Herman I the Tall
  • 1308-1317: Henry I Lackland, Valdemar I the Great, John V the Illustrious
  • 1317-1319: Valdemar I the Great
  • 1319-1320: Henry II the Child
  • 1320-1347: Sophia, married to:

[[House of Welf]]

  • 1327-1347: Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1327-1347, by marriage to Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal Sold to Meissen.

References

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