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
Gunzelin VI, Count of Schwerin. Albert succeeded his elder brother
John III in 1356 as Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln, a branch duchy of
Saxe-Lauenburg
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (german: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called ''Niedersachsen'' (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries), was a ''reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296–1803 and again from 1814–1876 in the extreme sou ...
. 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
Herrschaft
The German term ''Herrschaft'' (plural: ''Herrschaften'') covers a broad semantic field and only the context will tell whether it means, "rule", "power", "dominion", "authority", "territory" or "lordship". In its most abstract sense, it refers ...
of
Mölln to the
city of Lübeck in return for 9737.50 Lübeck
marks
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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
Hamburg
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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
Bremen, freed the streets northeast of the city from the
brigandage by Eric II and Albert V, conquering the latter's castle in
Bergedorf
Bergedorf () is the largest of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany, named after Bergedorf quarter within this borough. In 2020 the population of the borough was 130,994.
History
The city of Bergedorf received town privileges in 1275, then ...
.
By 25 January 1366 Albert married Catherine of
Werle {{Infobox country
, native_name = ''Herrschaft Werle'' ( de)
, conventional_long_name = Lordship of Werle
, common_name = Werle
, era = Middle Ages
, status = Vassal
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-Güstrow (*?–after 17 December 1402*), daughter of Lord
Nicholas III of Werle-Güstrow. Catherine and Albert had no children.
Ancestry
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