Alternative History

This is the dynastic tree of the House of La Marck, a renowned house where many of the Dukes of Saxony are descended from.

Note: See House of Lenzburg (Merveilles du Monde Map Game) for a slightly more up-to-date version.

Family tree[]

  • Engelbert I & IV, Duke jure uxoris of Saxe-Wittenberg and Count of the Mark (1376-1446) (Count 1391-1444, Duke jure uxoris 1394-1435, Elector of Saxony 1394-1444) x Anna, Duchess of Saxe-Wittenberg (1377-1435), x Maria of Gorizia (1404-1462) (also appears in main line)
    • Henry IV & I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Count of the Mark (de la Marck) (1397-1468) (Duke 1435-1468, Count 1444-1446, Elector of Saxony 1444-1468, Regent of Mark 1448-1455) x Blanche of Geneva-Lenzburg (1396-1445) (also appears in Geneva line)
      • Louise de la Marck (1423-1488) x Edward Beaufort (1426-1484) (also appears in main line, see there for descendants)
      • Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany (Wenceslaus III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (de la Marck)) (1425-1478) (Duke and Elector of Saxony 1468-1478, Emperor and King 1472-1478) x Catherine Beaufort (b. 1428) (also appears in main line)
        • Engelbert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (de la Marck) (1452-1488) (Duke and elector of Saxony 1478-1488) x Maria of Brandenburg-Bohemia (b. 1445) (also appears below)
          • Wenceslaus IV of Saxe-Wittenberg (b. 1480)
          • Eberhardina de la Marck (b. 1485)
          • Otto Edmund Alwin de la Marck (b.1487) (unacknowledged)
        • Edmund Alwin de la Marck (b. 1452) x Clementia of Thuringia (b. 1458)
        • Christina de la Marck (b. 1453) x Sigismund of Brandenburg-Bohemia (1444-1480) (also appears below, see below for descendants)
        • Louise de la Marck (b. 1454) x Wolfgang of Thuringia (b.1456)
          • Edmund of Thuringia (b.1487)
      • Otto de la Marck, Margrave of Lower Mark (b. 1434) (Count 1463-1474, Margrave since 1474) x Maria of Savoy (b. 1430) (also appears in Savoy/Iceland line)
        • Shadrach de la Marck (b. 1465)
        • Maria de la Marck (b. 1465) x Magnus of Saxe-Lauenburg (1470-1485), x Ulrich VIII von Lenzburg (b. 1470) (also appears in main line, see there for descendants)
      • August de la Marck (1445-1475)
        • Ernest (1461-1483) (illegitimate) (also appears below)
      • Blanche de la Marck (b. 1445)
    • Bonne de la Marck, Countess of Lower Mark (1399-1465) (Countess 1448-1463) x Eiríkur Sturlungur, Prince of Finland (1405-1474) (also appears in Savoy/Iceland line)
      • Adolph de la Marck, Prince of Finland (1424-1487) (Prince 1474-1487) x Anna of Geneva-Lenzburg (b. 1431) (also appears in Geneva line)
        • Aymon Eiríkur de la Marck, Prince of Finland (b. 1452) (Prince since 1487) x Frigg Sturlungur (b. 1448) (also appears in Savoy/Iceland line)
          • Eberhard de la Marck (b. 1486)
        • Edward de la Marck (b. 1453)
        • Peter de la Marck (b. 1457)
      • Anna (Amalia) de la Marck (1427-1456) x Henry VIII, Holy Roman Emperor (Henry III, King of Bohemia (Premyslid)) (b. 1418) (King since 1452, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Livonia since 1470, Emperor since 1479)
        • Sigismund of Brandenburg-Bohemia (1444-1480) x Christina de la Marck (b. 1453) (also appears above)
        • Maria of Brandenburg-Bohemia (b. 1445) x Engelbert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1452-1488) (also appears above, see above for descendants)
        • Johannes of Brandenburg-Bohemia (b. 1454)
        • Amalius of Brandenburg-Bohemia (b. 1456)
      • Henry, Count of Wasaborg (illegitimate) (1435-1458) (Count 1445–1458) x Marianne Gasta Aminoff (b. 1411)
        • Henrik, Count of Wasaborg (b. 1445) (Count since 1458)
        • Mary Lily Bonne of Wasaborg (b. 1452)
        • Anna of Wasaborg (b. 1458)
        • Ernest of Wasaborg (1461-1483) (adopted) (also appears above)
      • Andrés Heinrich Engelbert de la Marck, Count of Lower Mark (1438-1463) (Count 1448-1463) x Anna de la Marck (b. 1447) (also appears below)
        • Henry de la Marck (b. 1463) x Ingeborg of Denmark (b. 1455)
          • Olaf (de la Marck) of Denmark (b.1488)
      • Johannes de la Marck (1442-1443)
    • Wenceslaus, Count of the Mark (1403-1448) (Count 1446-1448)
      • Anna de la Marck (illegitimate) (b. 1447) x Andrés Heinrich Engelbert de la Marck, Count of Lower Mark (1438-1463) (also appears above, see there for descendants)
    • Sophia de la Marck, Margravine of Upper Mark (1438-1480) (Countess 1448-1474, Margravine 1474-1480) x Hermann III, Landgrave of Hesse (1421-1480) (also appears in main line, see there for descendants)
  • Johanna de la Marck (1379-1380)
  • Johanna (II) de la Marck (1382-1405)
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    Henry, Duke and Elector of Saxe-Wittenberg.

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The Duke and Duchess of Saxony: Engelbert and Anna.