Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
# Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Eric II of Saxe-Lauenburg (1318/1320 – 1368) was a son of Duke Eric I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Elisabeth of Pomerania (*1291–after 16 October 1349*), daughter of Bogislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania. Eric II succeeded his father, after his resignation in 1338, as duke of Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg, a branch duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Eric II and his cousin Albert V of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln ravaged merchants and other travellers passing their duchies. In 1363 the city of Hamburg and Adolphus IX (aka VII) the Mild, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel, supported by his relative Prince-Archbishop Albert II of Bremen, freed the streets northeast of the city from the brigandage by Eric II and Albert V, conquering the latter's castle in Bergedorf.

## Marriage and issue

In 1342 or 1343 Eric married Agnes of Holstein (?–1386/7), daughter of John III, Count of Holstein-Plön, and they had the following children:

* Agnes (1353–1387), married William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1363
* Eric IV (1354–1411)
* Jutta (1360–1388) married Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (1350–1393).
* Matilda (Mechthild) (? – after 1405), abbess of Wienhausen Abbey

## Ancestry

Ancestors of Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg :

