Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1423, Margrave Frederick IV an sanya shi Duke na Saxe-Wittenberg wanda ba shi da gado, wanda gidan Ascania ya mallaka a baya, ta hanyar Sarkin sarakuna Sigismund a madadin goyon bayansa a kan Hussites
Ka yi haƙuri. Shugabannin Wettin ta haka ne suka shiga cikin masu zaɓe na Saxon, wanda a ƙarshe suka haɗu da ƙasashensu na margravial suna watsi da matsayin Meissen a matsayin masarauta mai zaman kanta; kodayake sun riƙe taken margravial. A ƙarshen karni na 15, daular ta mallaki babban yanki mai haɗuwa tsakanin kogin Werra da Oder. Ta hanyar yarjejeniyar Leipzig ta 1485, duk da haka, an sake raba ƙasashen Upper Saxon tsakanin jikan Frederick Ernest mai mulki a Wittenberg da Albert, wanda ya ɗauki tsohuwar yankin Meissen. Yarjejeniyar ta nuna farkon rabuwa na dindindin na jihohi biyu na Saxony da Ernestine Thuringia.