Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Eric II of Saxe- Lauenburg (* 1318/1320, † 1368 ) was from 1338 to 1368 Duke of Saxe- Lauenburg.
Life and work
Erich was the son of Duke Eric I of Saxe- Lauenburg († 1361 ) and Elisabeth of Pomerania ( † 1349 ).
Erich took over in 1338 after the abdication of his father's business of government over the regions of Lauenburg and Ratzeburg. His cousin Albrecht IV, also Saxon duke, was made in winter 1343/44 in Eric's lands in order to secure the public peace, as Erich had a reputation for muggers to provide sanctuary and to favor attacks on merchant trains in his lands. However, the financially ailing Albrecht stood in exactly the same reputation, so that we can answer a simple successful raid with pleasing history of the victor here.
1360, three years after the death of Albrecht IV, whose son, Albrecht V, Erich offered to the city and the mountain village of Castle as a pledge for a loan, having previously pledged town and bailiwick Mölln to Lübeck in the year. Erich took the opportunity to expand his lands, and gave the loan. In order to secure his money, he sat at Schloss Bergedorf up a dedicated administrator.
In the dispute over the ways and customs rights on the River Elbe in 1362 it came to an attack of Lüneburg Duke William on the Riepenburg and there holding court at the time Erich. While Eric could escape the clutches of the Riepenburg was razed and the four country devastated. The protected through the Riepenburg Eyslinger ferry with the associated customs station also fell into the hands of William. To secure his conquest, he had a new castle slightly upstream on Gammerort establish that the immediately successful counter- strike Erich but could not withstand, and in turn was torn down. The Riepenburg was rebuilt, led the conquest of William back in Eric's possession.
In the long run this led invasion to a strengthening of the southernmost of the three Elbarme the Vierlande to state and diocese limit; to 1438 the two northern Elbarme were abgedeicht and thus the most southern Elbarm, today's current Elbe, redesigned the only shipping route between Hamburg and Geesthacht.
After the death of Eric II in 1368, the business of government went on to Eric's son Erich IV.
Marriages and descendants
Erich married 1342/1349 Agnes of Holstein. From the compound gave the world:
- Erich IV of Saxe- Lauenburg (1354-1412), Duke of Saxe- Lauenburg
- Agnes of Saxe- Lauenburg ( † after 1387 )
- Jutta of Saxony -Lauenburg († 1388 ), Prince Bogusław ∞ VI. of Pomerania ( † 1393 )
- Mechthild of Saxe- Lauenburg ( † after 1405), Abbess of Wienhausen