WI Saxony undivided

OTL the brothers Ernst and Albert first ruled Saxony together. Then in 1485 the Treaty of Leipzig divided Saxony into two different states. The rest is history as they say...

This historians call the biggest mistake in Saxon history. It helped the raise of Brandenburg-Prussia for sure.

What could have been achieved if the brothers would have continued ruling together, making it a house law that the electorate could not be divided?

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Technically, the electorate was not divided. The electoral vote was tied to the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg, just east of Anhalt - the so-called Kurkreis. The larger part of the Wettin lands were the Marquisate of Meissen, the Landgraviate of Thuringia plus smaller territories, and that is what was partioned.

Before the Schmalkaldic War, the Ernestines had the electoral vote, and they had the Kurkreis.
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A simple way to stop the partition would be an eraly death of one of the brothers, preferably Albert.
 
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