AHC/WI: Saxonian Civil War

Something that interests me is the removal of the Saxon electorate from the Ernestine to the Albertine branch of the house of Wettin. Seemingly this occurred without any sort of bad blood between the two branches (at least any on an international level). This surprises me, since most other split families had rivalries between the branches – Welf (Brunswick and Hannover) and Wittelsbach (Bavaria and the Palatinate) etc. What if Johann Friedrich II (or his sons/heirs/brothers) were to get into a dynastic dispute with the Albertine branch (on par with the rivalry between some other houses’ competing branches)?
 
Obviously to get this idea off the ground, either the Habsburgs might have to do better against the Ernestine Wettins, or the Albertines will simply have to be in a more threatening position?

What say you guys? How could we get that right?
 
Saxonian Civil war is so broad I think some more context might help. I looked at the thread and wanted to see if it were Saxons vs Charlemagne. Instead I got something really obscure as in so little I was like who?

More background would be useful.
 
Saxonian Civil war is so broad I think some more context might help. I looked at the thread and wanted to see if it were Saxons vs Charlemagne. Instead I got something really obscure as in so little I was like who?

More background would be useful.

Okay, so the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin originally held the Saxonian electorate. Then along comes Martin Luther. Both branches (Ernestine and Albertine) take the side of the Reformation against the Habsburg powers-that-be. As punishment, the Habsburgs stripped the traitorous Ernestine branch of the electorate which they then gave to the SLIGHTLY more loyal Albertine branch. Thus the division between Electoral Saxony and the duchy of Saxony (Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Gotha etc).

Now what if the Ernestines had fought the Albertines, either to regain the lost electoral title OR to seize lands from the electorate to add to the duchy OR whatever.
 
More background would be useful.

In 1485, the brothers Ernst and Albrecht, joint heads of the House of Wettin, divided their common-held possessions. Ernst got the mostly Western part in today's Thuringia with the Electorate of Sachsen-Wittenberg, Albrecht got the mostly Eastern part with Dresden and Leipzig.

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In 1547, after the Schmalkaldic War, the protestant (Ernestine) Elector Johann Friedrich I. lost the electorate and all territory east of the Saale river to his cousin, the (Albertine) Duke Moritz, who was also protestant, but had nonetheless allied himself with Emperor Karl V.
(Before this, the protestant Schmalkaldic League between Saxony, Hesse and other protestant princes, was at war with the emperor. Duke Moritz had more or less volunteered to fight against the league. Some say out of greed and ambition, others say that he wanted to avoid the involvement of Ferdinand of Austria-Bohemia gainsz his cousin, as that would mean losing control over the Saxon electorate to the Habsburgs.

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