Saxe-Lauenburg

I have not seen one Saxe-Lauenburg centric time line ever. If anyone can make a TL where Saxe-Lauenburg forms Germany I will be a happy happy horse. Here's a jumping - off point: take Hamburg, Lübeck, or both.
 
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Come on guys, it's the possible formation of Germany by a completely unprecedented Holy Roman Statelet, and a convenient one at that? The possibilities are endless for someone who knows more about Saxe-Lauenburg than their Wikipedia page (of which I am but one). What is more exciting?
 
I have not seen one Saxe-Lauenburg centric time line ever. If anyone can make a TL where Saxe-Lauenburg forms Germany I will be a happy happy horse. Here's a jumping - off point: take Hamburg, Lübeck, or both.

But the Duke of Lauenburg *did* unite Germany in OTL!

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:p

But seriously: You have to start early.

1180: The Ascanian, Bernhard of Anhalt, becomes Duke of Saxony. (OTL)

1227: After the Battle of Bornhöved, the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg are confirmed as Counts of Holstein and feudal authorities over Mecklenburg. The Schauenburg claim to Holstein is ignored.

1235: For some reason, the Duchy of Brunswick-Lunenburg is not created. The Guelph domains remain unter the feudal authority of the Dukes of Saxony.
When later a cadet branch of the Guelphs dies out, the Ascanians take their possessions.

~1300 Saxony-Lauenburg and Saxony-Wittenberg are kept together.

~1350 the Dukes of Saxony are confirmed as imperial electors and imperial vicars for the areas of Saxon Law.

If you can keep them as the highest authority in the current states of S-H, LowSax, Sax-Anh, Hamburg and Bremen, the Dukes are in a godd position. Especially if they don't become confrontational towards the Hanseatic cities, but somehow learn to cooperate with Lübeck, Brunswick and the others.
 
If you can keep them as the highest authority in the current states of S-H, LowSax, Sax-Anh, Hamburg and Bremen, the Dukes are in a godd position. Especially if they don't become confrontational towards the Hanseatic cities, but somehow learn to cooperate with Lübeck, Brunswick and the others.

Or just conquer Lübeck, Brunswick, etc :p

Seriously, I don't have enough knowledge of the time period to make a proper TL, and however much I want to see it happen I don't have the time to write a decent TL and learn a whole new facet of history at the same time. Sooooooo.......
 
It was informative to learn that in 1865 the estates of Saxe-Lauenburg offered rule of the duchy to King William I of Prussia. He accepted to be the Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1865.
 
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