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

Albert IV of Saxe-Lauenburg Albert IV of Saxe-Lauenburg (1315 – 1343) was the eldest son of John II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Elisabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg (*ca. 1300–before 1340*), sister of Gerard III ''the Great''. In 1321 Albert IV succeeded his father as Duke of Sax ...

and Beata of Schwerin (*?–before 1341*), daughter of

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. Albert succeeded his elder brother John III in 1356 as Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln, a branch duchy of

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. He died without an heir and was succeeded by his younger brother Eric III. Albert V, short in money, sold – after consenting with his brother Eric III – the

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of Mölln to the city of Lübeck in return for 9737.50 Lübeck

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. The parties agreed upon a repurchase, however, only by the duke or his heirs for themselves, but not as a middleperson for someone else.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. 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 Eric II of Saxe-Lauenburg–Ratzeburg-Lauenburg agreed on ravaging merchants and other travellers passing their duchies near

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. So in 1363 the city of Hamburg and Adolphus VII, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel, supported by his relative Prince-Archbishop Albert II of

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, freed the streets northeast of the city from the

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by Eric II and Albert V, conquering the latter's castle in

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. By 25 January 1366 Albert married Catherine of

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

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