Madeleine Birchfield
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What happens if Ernest of Saxony dies on 22 August 1485 before the Treaty of Leipzig was signed?
WI: Ernest of Saxony dies an year early
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FYI it would come across less spammy if you put at least some context to your questions.
Simple. For the time being, Albrecht the Bold gets the entirety of Saxony/Meißen/Thuringia, and when he dies we see a THREEWAY split of Saxony (electoral, ducal, landgraviate of Thuringia?) between his three sons, Georg the Bearded, Heinrich IV and Friedrich, (the antepenultimate Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights). Or Albrecht resolves to-NOT split the inheritance (believes Ernst died as a show of divine displeasure at the idea), since I'm not sure what made Friedrich the Gentle split the inheritance to start with.
However, the split had been de facto if not de jure since 1460/1464 already. Not to mention that by 1484 Ernst's eldest daughter has been married to the king of Denmark for 6 years, has given him three (maybe four) sons already, Ernst's eldest son (Friedrich the Wise, Luther's patron/protector) is 20yo.
A better POD would be either Ernst dying BEFORE he has kids or WHILE kids are still young enough that Albrecht can seize custody/guardianship à la Friedrich III for Ladislas the Posthumous.
@Jan Olbracht
The most interesting effect of this would be Friedrich having better job than joining Teutonic Order.
If he gets some land from division of Saxony (if Alberine line gets whole) then he is not in need to search for job in the Order. Order's function at the time was to provide younger sons of HRE aristocracy with job, so they'll not make troubles at home.
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