Editing House of Ascania

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{{infobox royal house||surname=House of Ascania|coat of arms=[[File:Arms of the house of Ascania (ancient).svg|75px]] [[File:Arms of Heinrich I, Prince of Anhalt.svg|75px]] [[File:Arms of the house of Anhalt (13th century).svg|75px]]|country=[[Germany]], [[Russia]]|titles=*Count/Prince/Duke of [[Duchy of Anhalt|Anhalt]]
*[[Duke of Saxony]]
*[[List of margraves and electors of Brandenburg|Margrave of Brandenburg]]
*[[Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]]
*[[Saxe-Wittenberg|Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg]]
*[[List of rulers of Saxony|Elector of Saxony]]
*[[List of princes of Lüneburg|Prince of Lüneburg]]
*[[Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias]]
*[[Empress consort of All the Russias]]|founder=[[Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt]]|final ruler=[[Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt]]|current head=[[Eduard, Prince of Anhalt]]|founding year=1036|deposition=1918 ([[Duchy of Anhalt]])}}
[[File:Wappen_Deutsches_Reich_-_Herzogtum_Anhalt_(Großes).png|thumb|262px|Coat of arms of the Duchy of Anhalt]]
The '''House of Ascania''' ({{langx|de|Askanier}}) was a [[dynasty]] of German rulers. It is also known as the '''House of Anhalt''', which refers to its longest-held possession, [[Principality of Anhalt|Anhalt]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hiebl|first=Manfred|date=2006|title=Das Haus Askanien-Anhalt, dessen Zweige und ihre Bedeutung|url=http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/partenheimer_lutz/dessau_katalog.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.manfred-hiebl.de}}</ref>

The Ascanians are named after Ascania (or Ascaria) Castle, known as ''Schloss Askanien'' in German, which was located near and named after [[Aschersleben]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-08-01|title=Ascania 1|url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ascania/ascan1.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=genealogy.euweb.cz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=hrsg. von Werner Paravicini. Bearb. von Jan Hirschbiegel|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723003848|title=Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich Bd. 1. Ein dynastisch-topographisches Handbuch Teilbd. 2. Residenzen|isbn=978-3-7995-4515-0|location=Ostfildern|chapter=Askanier|oclc=723003848|chapter-url=https://adw-goe.de/en/digital-library/hoefe-und-residenzen-im-spaetmittelalterlichen-reich/gsn/rf15_I_121220-38/}}</ref> The castle was the seat of the County of Ascania, a title that was later subsumed into the titles of the princes of Anhalt.

==History==
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File:Schloss Ballenstedt, Hofseite.JPG|[[Ballenstedt]] Castle
File:Arms of the house of Ascania (ancient).svg|First coat of arms of the family
Map of Anhalt (1747-1793).svg|Map of Anhalt (1747–1793)
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The earliest known member of the house, [[Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt]], first appears in a document of 1036. Genealogists assume him to have been a grandson (through his mother) of [[Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark]] ({{reign | 965 | 993}}). From Odo, the Ascanians inherited large properties in the [[Saxon Eastern March]].

Esiko's grandson [[Otto, Count of Ballenstedt]], died in 1123. By Otto's marriage to [[Eilika of Saxony|Eilika]], daughter of [[Magnus, Duke of Saxony]], the Ascanians became heirs to half of the property of the House of [[Billung]], former dukes of [[Duchy of Saxony|Saxony]].

Otto's son, [[Albert the Bear]], became, with the help of his mother's inheritance, the first Ascanian duke of Saxony in 1139. However, he soon lost control of Saxony to the rival [[House of Guelph]].

Albert inherited the area of the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] in 1157 from its last [[Wends|Wendish]] ruler, [[Pribislav of Brandenburg|Pribislav]] (died 1150), Albert's son's godfather. Albert became the first Ascanian margrave; he and his descendants of the House of Ascania then made considerable progress in [[Christianity|Christianizing]] and [[Germanisation|Germanizing]] the Brandenburg lands. As a borderland between German and [[Slavs|Slavic]] cultures, the country was known as a [[marches|march]] ({{langx | de | Mark Brandenburg | translation = the March of Brandenburg}}).

In 1237 and 1244, two towns, [[Cölln]] and Berlin, were founded during the joint rule of [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg | Otto]] and [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg | Johann]], grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear. (Later, in 1710, the two centres united into one city, [[Berlin]]. Emblems of the House of Ascania, a red eagle (for Brandenburg) and a bear, became  [[Coat of arms of Berlin | heraldic emblems of Berlin]].) In 1320, the Brandenburg Ascanian line came to an end.

After the [[Holy Roman Emperor | Emperor]] [[Frederick Barbarossa]] deposed [[Henry the Lion]], the Guelph Duke of Saxony, in 1180, Ascanians returned to rule the Duchy of Saxony, which had been reduced to its eastern half by the Emperor. However, even in eastern Saxony, the Ascanians could establish control only in limited areas, mostly near the [[River Elbe]].

In 1212 the [[Principality of Anhalt | County of Anhalt]] was split off from the Duchy of Saxony, and {{circa | 1296}} the remaining Duchy was split into [[Saxe-Lauenburg]] and [[Saxe-Wittenberg]]. The Ascanian dynasties in these two Saxon states became extinct in 1689 and in 1422, respectively, but Ascanians continued to rule in the smaller state of Anhalt and its various subdivisions until the abolition of monarchy in 1918.

[[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]], Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania as the daughter of [[Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]].

==Rulers of the House of Ascania==

===House of Ascania===

====Partitions of the House of Ascania====

{|align="center" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;"
|+ 
|- 
| colspan=23 style="background: #fff;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Ballenstedt--->
|- 
| colspan=4 rowspan="2" style="background: #aee;" |'''County of Weimar-Orlamunde'''<br/>(1113–1247)
| colspan=19 style="background: #fff;" |'''County of Ballenstedt'''<br/>(1030–1170)
|- 
| colspan=4 rowspan="3" style="background: #fea;" |'''Duchy of Saxony'''<br/>(1180–1296)
| colspan=2 rowspan="2" style="background: #ceb;" |'''Margraviate of Brandenburg'''<br>(1157-1266/67)
| colspan=7 style="background: #fde;" |'''County of Anhalt'''<br>(1123–1212)<br><small>Raised to:</small><br>'''Principality of Anhalt'''<br>(1212–1252)
|- 
| colspan=3 rowspan="2" style="background: #adf;" |'''Weimar'''<br/>(1247–1372)
| colspan=1 rowspan="7" style="background: #aee;" |'''Orlamunde'''<br><small>(from 1354 in Schauenforst and Droyssig)</small><br/>(1247–1420)
| colspan=4 rowspan="6" style="background: #ecd;" |'''Zerbst'''<br><small>(1st creation)</small><br>(1252–1396)
| colspan=1 rowspan="7" style="background: #ecf;" |'''Bernburg'''<br><small>(1st creation)</small><br>(1252–1468)
| colspan=1 rowspan="4" style="background: #fde;" |'''Aschersleben'''<br>(1252–1315)
|- 
| colspan=1 rowspan="2" style="background: #cfc;" |'''Stendal'''<ref>From Stendal split off:
*<span style="background-color:#acc;">'''Krossen'''</span> (1266–1308)
*<span style="background-color:#aca;">'''Neumark'''</span> (1266–1318)</ref><br>(1266–1318)
| colspan=1 rowspan="2" style="background: #ada;" |'''Salzwedel'''<ref><span style="background-color:#ace;">'''Stargard'''</span> split off from Salzwedel (1267-1316) and was then annexed to the [[Duchy of Mecklenburg]].</ref><br>(1267–1317)
|- 
| colspan=1 rowspan="3" style="background: #adf;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Weimar--->
| colspan=1 rowspan="3" style="background: #bee;" |'''Plassenburg'''<br/>(1285–1340)
| colspan=1 style="background: #adf;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Weimar--->
| colspan=1 rowspan="5" style="background: #fea;" |'''Wittenberg'''<br/>(1296–1356)<br><small>Raised to:</small><br>'''Electorate of Saxe-Wittenberg'''<br/>(1356–1422) 
| colspan=3 style="background: #fedf;" |'''Lauenburg'''<br/>(1296–1303)
|- 
| colspan=1 rowspan="4" style="background: #cef;" |'''Lauenstein'''<br/>(1319–1460)
| colspan=1 rowspan="3" style="background: #ec6;" |'''Mölln'''<br/>(1303–1401)
| colspan=1 style="background: #fc9;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Bergdorf--->
| colspan=1 style="background: #ffc;" |'''Ratzeburg'''<br/>(1303–15) 
| colspan=2 style="background: #ceb;" |'''Margraviate of Brandenburg'''<br><small>(<span style="background-color:#cfc;">'''Stendal'''</span> line)</small><br>(1318–20)
|- 
| colspan=2 rowspan="2" style="background: #fc9;" | '''Bergdorf'''<br/>(1303–15)<br><small>Renamed as</small><br>'''Ratzeburg'''<br/>(1315–1401)
| colspan=2 rowspan="13" style="background: #eee;" |<small>''Annexed to the<br> [[House of Wittelsbach]]''</small>
| colspan=1 rowspan="13" style="background: #eee;" |<small>''Annexed to <br>[[Bishopric of Halberstadt]]''</small>
|- 
| colspan=2 rowspan="12" style="background: #eee;" |<small>''Annexed to the <br>[[House of Wettin]]''</small>
|- 
| colspan=3 rowspan="7" style="background: #fedf;" |'''Lauenburg'''<br><small>''(<span style="background:#fc9;">'''Ratzeburg'''</span> line'')</small><br>(1401–1689) 
| colspan=3 rowspan="5" style="background: #ccf;" |'''Köthen'''<br><small>(1st creation)</small><br>(1396–1562)
| colspan=1 style="background: #fde;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Dessau---> 
|- 
| colspan=3 rowspan="10" style="background: #eee;" |<small>''Annexed to the<br> [[House of Wettin]]''</small>
| colspan=2 style="background: #fde;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Dessau---> 
|- 
| colspan=1 style="background: #fde;" |'''Dessau'''<ref>The color chosen for Dessau was the same as the Principality of Anhalt as a whole, because, when united, the principality had this town as capital.</ref><br><small>(1st creation)</small><br>(1396–1561)
| colspan=1 rowspan="2" style="background: #ecd;" |'''Zerbst'''<br><small>(2nd creation)</small><br>(1544–62)
|- 
| colspan=1 style="background: #fde;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Dessau---> 
|- 
| colspan=2 style="background: #ecd;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Zerbst---> 
|- 
| colspan=5 style="background: #fde;" |'''Principality of Anhalt'''<br><small>''(<span style="background-color:#ecd;">'''Zerbst'''</span> line)''</small><br>(1562–1603)
|- 
| colspan=1 style="background: #fbd;" |'''Plötzkau'''<br>(1603–1665)
| colspan=1 style="background: #ccf;" |'''Köthen'''<br><small>(2nd creation)</small><br>(1603–1847)
| colspan=1 rowspan="2" style="background: #fde;" |'''Dessau'''<br><small>(2nd creation)</small><br>(1603–1863)
| colspan=1 rowspan="2" style="background: #ecd;" |'''Zerbst'''<br><small>(3rd creation)</small><br>(1603–1793)
| colspan=1 rowspan="4" style="background: #ecf;" |'''Bernburg'''<br><small>(2nd creation)</small><br>(1603–1863)
|- 
| colspan=3 rowspan="4" style="background: #eee;" |<small>''Annexed to the<br> [[House of Welf]]''</small>
| colspan=2 rowspan="2" style="background: #ccf;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Kothen---> 
|- 
| colspan=2 style="background: #fde;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Dessau---> 
|- 
| colspan=4 style="background: #fde;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!---Dessau---> 
|- 
| colspan=5 style="background: #fde;" |'''Duchy of Anhalt'''<br><small>''('''Dessau''' line)''</small><br>(1863–1918)
|}

====Table of rulers====
{{Sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sticky-header" 
|- style="background:#cccccc"
! colspan=2 | Ruler!!Born!!Reign!!Ruling part!!Consort!!Death!!Notes
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[Adalbert, Count of Ballenstedt|Adalbert I]]<ref>Even his name is uncertain; sources name him Adalbert assuming that his grandson, Count Adalbert (II) (d.1080) was named after him.</ref>||
|align="center"|c.970<br><small>?</small>
|align="center"|c.1000–1036||County of [[Ballenstedt]]||Hidda<br>four children
|align="center"|1036<br><small>aged 65–66</small>||First documented member of the family.
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[Esico of Ballenstedt|Esico]]||
|align="center"|c.1000<br><small>Son of [[Adalbert, Count of Ballenstedt|Adalbert I]] and Hidda</small>
|align="center"|1036–1060||County of [[Ballenstedt]]||[[Matilda of Swabia]]<br>1026<br>three children
|align="center"|1060<br><small>aged 59–60</small>||
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt|Adalbert II]]||[[File:Heinemann CDA1, Tafel II.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1030<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>Son of [[Esico of Ballenstedt|Esico]] and [[Matilda of Swabia]]</small>
|align="center"|1060–1080||County of [[Ballenstedt]]||[[Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde]]<br>c.1070<br>two children
|align="center"|c.1080<br>[[Westdorf]]<br><small>aged c.49-50</small>||
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[Otto, Count of Ballenstedt|Otto I ''the Rich'']]||
|align="center"|c.1065<br><small>First son of [[Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt|Adalbert II]] and [[Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde]]</small>
|align="center"|1080 – 9 February 1123||County of [[Ballenstedt]]||[[Eilika of Saxony]]<br>c.1095<br>two children
|align="center"|9 February 1123<br><small>aged 57–58?</small>
|rowspan="2"|Children of Adalbert II, divided their inheritance.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Siegfried of Ballenstedt|Siegfried I]]||
|align="center"|c.1070<br><small>Second son of [[Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt|Adalbert II]] and [[Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde]]</small>
|align="center"|1080 – 9 March 1113||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]||[[Gertrude of Northeim]]<br>1026<br>three children
|align="center"|9 March 1113<br><small>aged 42–43?</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|colspan=7 style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regencies of [[Gertrude of Northeim]] (1113–1115) and [[Otto I, Count of Salm]] (1115–1121)''</small>
|rowspan=2|Left no descendants. The county went to his brother.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:de:Siegfried II. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Siegfried II]]||[[File:Epiorlamuende1.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1107<br><small>First son of [[Siegfried of Ballenstedt|Siegfried I]] and [[Gertrude of Northeim]]</small>
|align="center"|9 March 1113 – 19 March 1124||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]||[[Irmgard of Henneberg]]<br>no children
|align="center"|19 March 1124<br><small>aged 16–17</small>
|- style="background:#fff"
|| [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I ''the Bear'']] ||[[File:Albrecht der Bär.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|c.1100<br><small>Son of [[Otto, Count of Ballenstedt|Otto I]] and [[Eilika of Saxony]]</small>
|align="center"|9 February 1123 – 18 November 1170||County of [[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(with [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]] from 1157)</small>||[[Sophie of Winzenburg]]<br/>1124<br/>thirteen children
|align="center"|18 November 1170<br>[[Stendal]] (possibly)<br><small>aged 69–70</small>||Besides count of Ballenstedt, he was also the first Margrave of Brandenburg (1157). Ruler of the [[Northern March]] from 1134, and the county of Weimar-Orlamünde since 1140.
|- style="background:#aee"
|colspan=7 style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regency of [[Otto I, Count of Salm]] (1124-1126)''</small>
|rowspan=2|Also ascended as a minor Left no descendants. The county went to his cousin, Albert the ''Bear'', from Ballenstedt.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Wilhelm von Ballenstedt]]||
|align="center"|1112<br>[[Worms, Germany|Worms]]<br><small>Second son of [[Siegfried of Ballenstedt|Siegfried I]] and [[Gertrude of Northeim]]</small>
|align="center"|19 March 1124 – 13 February 1140||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]||Adelaide<br>no children
|align="center"|13 February 1140<br>[[Cochem]]<br><small>aged 27–28</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Weimar-Orlamünde briefly annexed to Ballenstedt (1140-70)''
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto I]] ||[[File:OttoI.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|1128<br><small>First son of [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I]] and [[Sophie of Winzenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|18 November 1170 – 8 July 1184||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]||[[Judith of Poland]]<br/>1148<br/>two children<br/><br/>[[Ada of Holland, Margravine of Brandenburg|Ada of Holland]]<br/>1175<br/>one child
|align="center"|8 July 1184<br><small>aged 55–56</small>
|rowspan="5" style="background:#fff"| Children of Albert I, divided their inheritance. After Adalbert and Dietrich's childless deaths, their possessions were inherited by the younger brother, Bernard.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:de:Hermann I. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman I]]||
|align="center"|1130<br><small>Second son of [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I]] and [[Sophie of Winzenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|18 November 1170 – 19 October 1176||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]||Irmgard<br>two children
|align="center"|19 October 1176<br><small>aged 45–46</small>
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[:de:Adalbert von Aschersleben|Adalbert (III)]]||
|align="center"|1136<br><small>Fourth son of [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I]] and [[Sophie of Winzenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|18 November 1170 – 1171||County of [[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(at [[Aschersleben]])</small>
|rowspan="2"|''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1171<br><small>aged 34–35</small>
|- style="background:#fff"
|[[:de:Dietrich von Werben|Theodoric]]||
|align="center"|1137<br><small>Fifth son of [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I]] and [[Sophie of Winzenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|18 November 1170 – 1183||County of [[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(at [[Burgwerben]])</small>
|align="center"|1183<br><small>aged 45–46</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Bernhard, Count of Anhalt|Bernard (I)]]<ref>Numbered ''Bernard III'' as Duke of Saxony, but, as an ancestor of the Anhalt branch, he is not counted in Anhalt, as the next prince Bernard, reigning in Bernburg, is usually styled ''Bernard I''. This is probably derived of a different status between this Bernard, a count in Anhalt, and the following Bernards, who were already princes.</ref>||[[File:Bernhard Herzog von Sachsen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1140<br><small>Sixth son of [[Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert I]] and [[Sophie of Winzenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|18 November 1170 – 2 February 1212||[[County of Anhalt]]<br><small>(with [[Ballenstedt]] and [[Saxony]])</small> || Brigitte of Denmark<br>one child<br><br>[[:pl:Judyta Mieszkówna|Judith of Greater Poland]]<br>c.1173<br>five children<br><br>Sophia of Thuringia<br>one child
|align="center"|2 February 1212<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 71–72</small>
|- style="background:#fff"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Aschersleben and Burgwerben annexed to Anhalt''
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Siegfried III]]||
|align="center"|1155<br><small>Son of [[:de:Hermann I. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman I]] and Irmgard</small>
|align="center"|19 October 1176 – 1206||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]||[[:da:Sophia af Danmark|Sophia of Denmark]]<br>c.1180<br>three children
|align="center"|1206<br><small>aged 50–51</small>||
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Otto II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto II ''the Generous'']] ||[[File:Otto II. (Brandenburg) Siegesallee Zitadelle.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|c.1150<br><small>First son of [[Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto I]] and [[Judith of Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|8 July 1184 – 4 July 1205||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|4 July 1205<br><small>aged 54–55</small>
|rowspan="2"|Elder children of Otto I, both left no descendants. The patrimony was inherited by their half-brother, Albert II.
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[:de:Heinrich von Gardelegen|Henry]] ||
|align="center"|c.1150?<br><small>Second son of [[Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto I]] and [[Judith of Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|8 July 1184 – 1192||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]<br><small>(at [[Gardelegen]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1192<br><small>aged 41–42?</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert II]] ||[[File:AlbrechtII Siegesallee.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|1177<br><small>Son of [[Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto I]] and [[Ada of Holland, Margravine of Brandenburg|Ada of Holland]]</small>
|align="center"|4 July 1205 – 25 February 1220||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]||[[:uk:Матильда з Гройча|Matilda of Lusatia]]<br>1205<br>four children
|align="center"|25 February 1220<br><small>aged 42–43</small>||
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:de:Albrecht II. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Albert II]]||
|align="center"|1182<br><small>First son of [[Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Siegfried III]] and [[:da:Sophia af Danmark|Sophia of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1206 – 22 October 1245||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Nordhalben]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|22 October 1245<br><small>aged 62–63</small>
|rowspan="3"| Children of Siegfried III, divided their inheritance, which was soon reunited by Herman II.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Herman II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman II]]||[[File:Grafschaft Orlamünde, Hermann II. (1206-1248), Brakteat, mcsearch (2).JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1184<br><small>Second son of [[Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Siegfried III]] and [[:da:Sophia af Danmark|Sophia of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1206 – 27 December 1247||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Orlamünde]])</small>||[[Beatrix of Andechs-Merania]]<br>c.1230<br>six children
|align="center"|27 December 1247<br><small>aged 62–63</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Otto II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Otto II]]||
|align="center"|c.1185<br><small>Third son of [[Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Siegfried III]] and [[:da:Sophia af Danmark|Sophia of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1206–1211||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Weimar]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1211<br><small>aged 25–26</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Nordhalben and Weimar rejoined Orlamünde''
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Henry I, Count of Anhalt|Henry I]]||[[File:Heinrich von Anhalt (1170 - 1252).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1173<br><small>First son of [[Bernhard, Count of Anhalt|Bernard (I)]] and [[:pl:Judyta Mieszkówna|Judith of Greater Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|2 February 1212 – 1252||[[County of Anhalt]]<br><small>(until 1218)</small><br><br>[[Principality of Anhalt]]<br><small>(from 1218)</small> ||[[Irmgard of Thuringia]]<br>1211<br>eleven children
|align="center"|1252<br><small>aged 78–79</small>
|rowspan="2" style="background:#fff"| Children of Bernard, divided their inheritance. In 1218 Henry becomes Prince of Anhalt, which after his death is divided by his sons.
|- style="background:#fea;"
|[[Albert I, Duke of Saxony|Albert I]]||[[File:Albrecht I Herzog von Sachsen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1175<br><small>Second son of [[Bernhard, Count of Anhalt|Bernard (I)]] and [[:pl:Judyta Mieszkówna|Judith of Greater Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|2 February 1212 – 7 October 1260||[[Duchy of Saxony]] || [[:cs:Anežka Babenberská († 1226)|Agnes of Austria]]<br/>1222<br/>five children<br/><br/>[[:cs:Anežka Durynská|Agnes of Thuringia]]<br/>1238<br/>three children<br/><br/>[[:it:Elena di Brunswick-Lüneburg|Helene of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br/>1247<br/>five children
|align="center"|7 October 1260<br><small>aged 84–85</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regencies of [[Henry I, Count of Anhalt]] (1220–1225), [[Albert I of Käfernburg|Albert I, Archbishop of Magdeburg]] (1220–1221) and [[:uk:Матильда з Гройча|Matilda of Lusatia]] (1221–1225)''</small> 
|rowspan="3"|Children of Albert II, ruled jointly, but their children divided the margraviate.
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg|John I]] 
|rowspan="2"|[[File:Johann Otto Siegesallee3.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|1213<br><small>First son of [[Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert II]] and [[:uk:Матильда з Гройча|Matilda of Lusatia]]</small>
|align="center"|25 February 1220 – 4 April 1266
|rowspan="2"|[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]||[[:fr:Sophie de Danemark|Sophie of Denmark]]<br>1230<br>six children<br><br>[[:cs:Juta Saská (1240)|Judith of Saxony]]<br>1255<br>four children
|align="center"|4 April 1266<br>[[Stendal]]<br><small>aged 52–53</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto III ''the Pious'']] 
|align="center"|1215<br><small>Second son of [[Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert II]] and [[:uk:Матильда з Гройча|Matilda of Lusatia]]</small>
|align="center"|25 February 1220 – 9 October 1267||[[Beatrice of Bohemia]]<br>1243<br>six children
|align="center"|9 October 1267<br>[[Brandenburg an der Havel]]<br><small>aged 51–52</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Hermann III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman III ''the Popular'']]||
|align="center"|c.1230<br><small>Second son of [[Herman II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman II]] and [[Beatrix of Andechs-Merania]]</small>
|align="center"|27 December 1247 – 1283||County of [[Orlamünde]]||''Unknown''<br>four children
|align="center"|1283<br><small>aged 52–23</small>
|rowspan="4" style="background:#aee"| Children of Herman II, divided their inheritance.
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[Otto III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Otto III ''the Magnificent'']]||[[File:Epiorlamuende2.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1236<br><small>Third son of [[Herman II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman II]] and [[Beatrix of Andechs-Merania]]</small>
|align="center"|27 December 1247 – 13 May 1285||County of [[Weimar]]||[[Agnes of Leiningen, Countess of Weimar|Agnes of Leiningen]]<br><small>(c. 1230/40-13 May 1285)</small><br>1266<br>four children
|align="center"|13 May 1285<br><small>aged 48–49</small>
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[:de:Albrecht III. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Albert III]]||
|align="center"|c.1240<br><small>Fourth son of [[Herman II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman II]] and [[Beatrix of Andechs-Merania]]</small>
|align="center"|27 December 1247 – 1283||County of [[Weimar]]||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1283<br><small>aged 42–43</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:de:Sophie von Weimar-Orlamünde|Sophia]]||
|align="center"|c.1240<br><small>Daughter of [[Herman II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman II]] and [[Beatrix of Andechs-Merania]]</small>
|align="center"|27 December 1247 – 1270||[[:de:Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde|County of Weimar-Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[:de:Regnitzland|Regnitzland]])</small>||[[:bg:Хайнрих VIII фон Вайда|Henry VIII Reuss, Lord of Weida]]<br>19 July 1258<br>three children
|align="center"|c.1270<br><small>aged 29–30</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Henry II ''the Fat'']]||[[File:Siegel Heinrich I und II (Anhalt).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1215<br><small>First son of [[Henry I, Count of Anhalt|Henry I]] and [[Irmgard of Thuringia]]</small>
|align="center"|1252 – 12 June 1266||[[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Principality of Aschersleben]]||[[:bg:Матилда фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург|Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br>1245<br>two children
|align="center"|12 June 1266<br><small>aged 50–51</small>
|rowspan="3"| Children of Henry I, divided their inheritance.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard I]]||[[File:Siegel Bernhard I (Anhalt).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1218<br><small>Second son of [[Henry I, Count of Anhalt|Henry I]] and [[Irmgard of Thuringia]]</small>
|align="center"|1252–1287||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[Sophia of Denmark, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Sophia of Denmark]]<br>3 February 1258<br>[[Hamburg]]<br>six children
|align="center"|1287<br><small>aged 68–69</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Siegfried I]]||
|align="center"|1230<br><small>Seventh son of [[Henry I, Count of Anhalt|Henry I]] and [[Irmgard of Thuringia]]</small>
|align="center"|1252 – 25 March 1298||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]] ||[[Catherine Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Catherine of Sweden]]<br>17 October 1259<br>ten children
|align="center"|25 March 1298<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 67–68</small>
|- style="background:#fea;"
|[[John I, Duke of Saxony|John I]]||
|align="center"|1249<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>First son of [[Albert I, Duke of Saxony|Albert I]] and [[:it:Elena di Brunswick-Lüneburg|Helene of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|7 October 1260 – 1282 
|rowspan="2"|[[Duchy of Saxony]]<br><small>(Since 1296 in [[Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg|Saxe-Wittenberg]])</small>|| [[Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Sweden]]<br/>1270<br/>eight children
|align="center"|30 July 1285<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>aged 35–36</small>
|rowspan="2"| Ruled jointly; and associated his nephews to the joint rulership after his brothers death. However, these three nephews divided the land with him. Albert II retained Saxe-Wittenberg, and became the head of the Elder Saxon Line; Albert III, Eric I and John II ruled together in Saxe-Lauenburg, becoming the founders of the Younger Saxon Line.
|- style="background:#fea;"
||[[Albert II, Duke of Saxony|Albert II]]||[[File:Albrecht II. von Sachsen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1250<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Albert I, Duke of Saxony|Albert I]] and [[:it:Elena di Brunswick-Lüneburg|Helene of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|7 October 1260 – 25 August 1298|| [[:de:Agnes Gertrud von Habsburg|Agnes-Gertrude of Austria]]<br/>1282<br/>six children
|align="center"|25 August 1298<br>[[Aken (Elbe)|Aken]]<br><small>aged 35–36</small>
|- style="background:#fea;"
| style="text-align:center" colspan=8 | In 1296 Albert II and his nephews (Albert III, Eric I, and John II) ended their joint rule and divided Saxony into the Lauenburg line, where Albert III, Eric I, and John II continued to rule jointly until 1303, and the Wittenberg line, where Albert II continued as sole ruler until 1298. Since the Duke of Saxony was considered one of the [[prince-elector]]s electing a new [[Holy Roman Emperor]], conflict arose between the lines of Lauenburg and Wittenberg over the issue of who should cast Saxony's vote. In 1314 both lines found themselves on different sides in a double election. Eventually, the Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg succeeded in 1356 after the promulgation of the [[Golden Bull of 1356|Golden Bull]]. To distinguish him from other rulers bearing the title Duke of Saxony, he was commonly called ''[[Electorate of Saxony|Elector of Saxony]]''. 
|- style="background:#fde"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[:bg:Матилда фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург|Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (1266–1270)''</small>
|rowspan="3"| Children of Henry II, ruled jointly, first under their mother, who was elected Abbess of [[Gernrode]] in 1275. In 1283, Henry renounced his rights in Otto's favor, and later became [[Archbishop of Magdeburg]].
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Otto I, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto I]]
|rowspan="2"|[[File:Gemeinschaftliches Siegel Otto I und Heinrich III (Anhalt).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1245<br><small>First son of [[Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Henry II]] and [[:bg:Матилда фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург|Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 June 1266 – 25 June 1304
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Principality of Aschersleben]] ||[[Hedwig of Wrocław]]<br>1283<br>three children
|align="center"|25 June 1304<br><small>aged 58–59</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Henry III, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Henry III]]
|align="center"|c.1245<br><small>Second son of [[Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Henry II]] and [[:bg:Матилда фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург|Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 June 1266 – 1283||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|9 November 1307<br><small>aged 61–62</small>
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[John II, Margrave of Brandenburg|John II]] ||[[File:Gedenktafel Mariendorfer Damm 30 (Mariendl) Johann II.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|1237<br><small>First son of [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg|John I]] and [[:fr:Sophie de Danemark|Sophie of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 10 September 1281||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Krossen]])</small>||Hedwig of Werle<br><small>(1243–1287)</small><br>1249<br>two children
|align="center"|10 September 1281<br><small>aged 43–44</small>
|rowspan="4" style="background:#ceb"|Children of John I. Despite co-rulership between them, they received different parts in the Margraviate to rule (alone or in co-rulership):
* John II received seat at Krossen;
* Otto IV received seat at Stendal;
* Conrad received seat at Neumark, and associated his sons in 1291.
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto IV ''of the Arrow'']] ||[[File:Meister der Manessischen Liederhandschrift 004.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|1238<br><small>Second son of [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg|John I]] and [[:fr:Sophie de Danemark|Sophie of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 27 November 1308||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Stendal]])</small>||Heilwig of Holstein-Kiel<br><small>(d.1305)</small><br>1279<br>no children<br><br>Judith of Henneberg-Schleusingen<br><small>(d.1315)</small><br>1308<br>no children
|align="center"|27 November 1308<br><small>aged 69–70</small>
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Conrad I]] ||[[File:Konrád Braniborský a choť.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|1240<br><small>Third son of [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg|John I]] and [[:fr:Sophie de Danemark|Sophie of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 1304
|rowspan="2"|[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Neumark]])</small>||[[Constance of Greater Poland]]<br>1260<br>[[Santok]]<br>three children
|align="center"|1304<br>[[Chorin]]<br><small>aged 63–64</small>
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[:fr:Othon VII de Brandebourg|Otto VII]]<ref>Otto VII is listed before Otto V and VI here, as his rule, as it was never independent (unlike his brother John IV, who survived their father), is considered ''within'' the rule of his father, which began in 1267.</ref> ||[[File:Ota VII. Braniborský.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1265<br><small>Second son of [[Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Conrad I]] and [[Constance of Greater Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|1291–1297||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1297<br><small>aged 31–32</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[John III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|John III ''of Prague'']] ||[[File:Johann IIIder Prager.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|6 April 1244<br>[[Prague]]<br><small>First son of [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto III]] and [[Beatrice of Bohemia]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 8 April 1268
|rowspan="3"|[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Salzwedel]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|8 April 1268<br>[[Merseburg]]<br><small>aged 24</small>
|rowspan="4" style="background:#ceb"|Children of Otto III. Despite co-rulership between them, they received different parts in the Margraviate to rule (alone or in co-rulership):
* John III (and then Otto V with Otto VI) received the seat at Salzwedel, from which Otto VI abdicated in 1286;
* Albert III received a seat in Stargard (which he ruled alone at least from 1284.
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Otto V ''the Tall'']] || 
|align="center"|1246<br>[[Prague]]<br><small>Second son of [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto III]] and [[Beatrice of Bohemia]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – July 1299||[[:bg:Юдит фон Хенеберг-Кобург|Judith of Henneberg-Coburg]]<br>22 October 1268<br>[[Freiburg]]<br>four children
|align="center"|July 1299<br><small>aged 52–53</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Otto VI, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Otto VI ''the Short'']] ||[[File:Otto VI.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|3/17 November 1264<br><small>Fourth son of [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto III]] and [[Beatrice of Bohemia]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 1286||[[Hedwig of Habsburg|Hedwig of Austria]]<br>February 1279<br>[[Vienna]]<br>no children
|align="center"|6 July 1303<br>[[Lehnin]]<br><small>aged 38</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Albert III]] ||[[File:Albrecht III. (Brandenburg).jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|c.1250<br><small>Third son of [[Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Otto III]] and [[Beatrice of Bohemia]]</small>
|align="center"|9 October 1267 – 1300||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Stargard]])</small>||[[:cs:Matylda Dánská|Matilda of Denmark]]<br>1268<br>four children
|align="center"|1300<br><small>aged 49–50</small>
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[Conrad II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Conrad II]] || 
|align="center"|1261<br><small>Son of [[John II, Margrave of Brandenburg|John II]] and Hedwig of Werle</small>
|align="center"|10 September 1281 – 1308||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Krossen]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1308<br><small>aged 46–47</small>||With his childless death his land reverted to Stendal.
|- style="background:#cfc"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Krossen re-annexed to Stendal''
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:bg:Хайнрих III (Орламюнде)|Henry I]]||
|align="center"|{{Circa|1270}}<br><small>First son of [[Hermann III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman III]]</small>
|align="center"|1283 – 26 March 1354
|rowspan="2"|County of [[Orlamünde]]||[[:bg:Ирмгард фон Шварцбург-Бланкенбург|Irmgard of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]<br>26 July 1313<br>two children
|align="center"|26 March 1354<br><small>aged 83–84?</small>
|rowspan="3"|Children of Herman III, divided their inheritance.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Herman V, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman V]]<ref name="RefNumb1">Herman V was possibly younger than his cousin Herman IV, but he ascended two years earlier then him.</ref>||
|align="center"|{{Circa|1270}}<br><small>Second son of [[Hermann III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman III]]</small>
|align="center"|1283–1312||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1312<br><small>aged 41–42?</small>
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:de:Elisabeth von Orlamünde|Elisabeth (I) ''the Elder'']]||
|align="center"|1265<br><small>Daughter of [[Hermann III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Herman III]]</small>
|align="center"|1283–1327||County of [[Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Nordhalben]])</small>||Hartmann XI, Count of Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk<br>one child<br><br>[[Albert II, Margrave of Meissen]]<br>1 October 1290<br>no children
|align="center"|1327<br><small>aged 56–57</small>
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[:de:Hermann IV. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman IV]]<ref name="RefNumb1"/>||[[File:Epiorlamuende5.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|{{Circa|1270}}<br><small>First son of [[Otto III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Otto III]] and [[Agnes of Leiningen, Countess of Weimar|Agnes of Leiningen]]</small>
|align="center"|13 May 1285 – 1319||County of [[Weimar]]||[[Matilda of Rabenswald]]<br><small>(d.1339)</small><br>24 November 1290<br>four children
|align="center"|1319<br><small>aged 48–49</small>
|rowspan="2"|Children of Otto III, divided their inheritance.
|- style="background:#bee"
|[[:de:Otto IV (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto IV ''the Younger'']]||[[File:HimmelkronUnbekannt008.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1279<br><small>Second son of [[Otto III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Otto III]] and [[Agnes of Leiningen, Countess of Weimar|Agnes of Leiningen]]</small>
|align="center"|13 May 1285 – 1318||County of [[Plassenburg]]||[[Adelaide of Kafernburg]]<br><small>(d.c.1305)</small><br>14 December 1296<br>one child<br><br>[[Catherine of Hesse]]<br><small>(1286–1322)</small><br>1308<br>one child
|align="center"|1318<br><small>aged 38–39</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[John I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|John I]]||
|align="center"|1258<br><small>First son of [[Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard I]] and [[Sophia of Denmark, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Sophia of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1287 – 5 June 1291
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|5 June 1291<br><small>aged 32–33</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Bernard I, ruled jointly.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard II]]||[[File:Siegel Bernhard II (Anhalt).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1260<br><small>Third son of [[Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard I]] and [[Sophia of Denmark, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Sophia of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1287 – 1323||[[Helena of Rügen, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Helena of Rügen]]<br>27 December 1302<br>three children
|align="center"|1323<br><small>aged 62–63</small>
|- style="background:#ec6;"
||[[John II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John II]]||
|align="center"|1275<br><small>First son of [[John I, Duke of Saxony|John I]] and [[Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Sweden]]</small>
|align="center"|20 September 1296 – 22 April 1322|| [[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Mölln]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#fedf;">'''[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Lauenburg]]'''</span> until 1303)</small>|| [[Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg]]<br/>1315<br/>one child
|align="center"|22 April 1322<br>[[Mölln]]<br><small>aged 46–47</small>
|rowspan="4" style="background:#fedf|Children of John I, co-ruled first with their uncle Albert II since 1282 (since the death of their father), and in 1296 split the land with him. They retained Lauenburg, which they divided once more. Albert passed the land to his widow, and after her death, in 1315, the territory was realigned: Eric divided Bergdorf with his surviving brother and held all of his brother Albert's inheritance. However, he ended up abdicating to his son, and survived for most of his reign.
|- style="background:#fc9;"
||[[Eric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric I]]||[[File:POSSE.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1280<br><small>Second son of [[John I, Duke of Saxony|John I]] and [[Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Sweden]]</small>
|align="center"|20 September 1296 – 1338||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Bergedorf]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#fedf;">'''[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Lauenburg]]'''</span> until 1303; in Bergedorf 1303–1315)</small><br><br>[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Ratzeburg]]<br><small>(from 1315)</small>|| [[:pl:Elżbieta Bogusławówna|Elisabeth of Pomerania]]<br/>1316 or 1318<br/>four children
|align="center"|1360<br>[[Nienburg, Lower Saxony|Nienburg]]<br><small>aged 79–80</small>
|- style="background:#ffc;"
||[[Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert III]]||
|align="center"|1281<br><small>Third son of [[John I, Duke of Saxony|John I]] and [[Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Sweden]]</small>
|align="center"|20 September 1296 – 1308||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Ratzeburg]] <br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#fedf;">'''[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Lauenburg]]'''</span> until 1303)</small>|| [[Margaret of Brandenburg|Margaret of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]<br/>1302<br/>two children
|align="center"|1308<br><small>aged 26–27</small>
|- style="background:#ffc;"
|[[Margaret of Brandenburg|Margaret of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]||
|align="center"|1270<br><small>Second daughter of <span style="background-color:#ada;">[[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]</span> and [[:cs:Matylda Dánská|Matilda of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1308 – 1 May 1315||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Ratzeburg]] || [[Przemysł II|Przemysł II, King of Poland]]<br/>1302<br/>two children<br/><br/>[[Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert III]]<br/>1302<br/>two children
|align="center"|1 May 1315<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 44–45</small>
|- style="background:#fedf;"
| colspan=8 style="text-align:center"| In 1315, after the death of Margaret of Brandenburg, the remaining brothers Eric and John redesigned the political division in Saxe-Lauenburg; Eric retained all of Margaret's part, but had to give part of his original domains to his brother. 
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert I]]||
|align="center"|c.1260<br><small>Son of [[Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Siegfried I]] and [[Catherine Birgersdotter of Bjelbo|Catherine of Sweden]]</small>
|align="center"|25 March 1298 – 17 August 1316||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]] ||[[Liutgard of Holstein|Liutgard of Holstein-Itzehoe]]<br/>after 1277<br/>two children<br><br>[[Agnes of Brandenburg-Stendal]]<br/>1300<br/>five children
|align="center"|17 August 1316<br><small>aged 55–56</small>|| 
|- style="background:#fea;"
||'''[[Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Rudolph I]]'''<br/>''(Rudolf I)''||[[File:Rudolf I Herzog von Sachsen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1284<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>Son of [[Albert II, Duke of Saxony|Albert II]] and [[:de:Agnes Gertrud von Habsburg|Agnes-Gertrude of Austria]]</small>
|align="center"|25 August 1298 – 10 January 1356<br><br>10 January 1356 – 12 March 1356||[[Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg|Duchy of Wittenberg]]<br><small>(until 1356)</small><br><br>'''[[Electorate of Saxony]]'''<br><small>(from 1356)</small>|| [[Judith of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]<br/>1298<br/>eight children<br/><br/>[[Kunigunde of Poland]]<br/>28 August 1328<br/>one child<br/><br/>[[:it:Agnese di Lindow-Ruppin|Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin]]<br/>1333<br/>three children
|align="center"|12 March 1356<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>aged 71–72</small>|| In January 1356 the [[Golden Bull of 1356|Golden Bull]] confirmed Rudolf I as the legitimate Saxon Prince-Elector, thus the rulers of Saxe-Wittenberg are conceived as Electors of Saxony.
|- style="background:#fea;"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|The [[Golden Bull of 1356]] confirmed the right to participate in the election of a [[Holy Roman Emperor]] to the Duke of Saxony in the Saxe-Wittenberg line.
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Herman ''the Tall'']] ||[[File:Herman, margrave of Brandenburg.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|1275<br><small>Son of [[Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Otto V]] and [[:bg:Юдит фон Хенеберг-Кобург|Judith of Henneberg-Coburg]]</small>
|align="center"|July 1299 – 1 February 1308||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Salzwedel]])</small>||[[Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Anne of Austria]]<br>1295<br>[[Graz]]<br>four children
|align="center"|1 February 1308<br>[[Lübz]]<br><small>aged 32–33</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Otto V, divided the land. Beatrice's part was then annexed to the [[Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor]].
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Beatrice of Brandenburg|Beatrice (I)]] || 
|align="center"|1270<br><small>Daughter of [[Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Otto V]] and [[:bg:Юдит фон Хенеберг-Кобург|Judith of Henneberg-Coburg]]</small>
|align="center"|July 1299 – 1316||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Upper Lusatia]])</small>||[[Bolko I the Strict|Bolko I, Duke of Świdnica]]<br>4 October 1284<br>[[Berlin]]<br>ten children<br><br>[[Władysław of Bytom|Władysław, Duke of Bytom]]<br>21 September 1308<br>two children
|align="center"|1316<br><small>aged 45–46</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Upper Lusatia annexed to the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor''
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Beatrix of Brandenburg|Beatrice (II)]] ||
|align="center"|{{Circa|1270}}<br><small>First daughter of [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Albert III]] and [[:cs:Matylda Dánská|Matilda of Denmark]]</small>
|align="center"|1300 – 22 September 1314||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Stargard]])</small>||[[Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg]]<br>1292<br>[[Stargard Castle]]<br>four children
|align="center"|22 September 1314<br><small>aged 43–44</small>|| Daughter and heiress of Albert III. Her marriage transferred the Stargard region into the [[Duchy of Mecklenburg]].
|- style="background:#ada"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Stargard annexed to the Duchy of Mecklenburg''
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[:fr:Jean IV de Brandebourg|John IV]] ||[[File:Jan IV. Braniborský.jpg|100px]] 
|align="center"|1261<br><small>First son of [[Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Conrad I]] and [[Constance of Greater Poland]]</small>
|align="center"|1304–1305||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Neumark]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1305<br><small>aged 43–44</small>||Co-ruler of his father since 1291. His childless death reverted his lands to his younger brother Valdemar.
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Otto II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto II]]||[[File:Siegel Otto I (Anhalt) - drittes Reitersiegel und Otto II (Anhalt) - Reitersiegel.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1260<br><small>Son of [[Otto I, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto I]] and [[Hedwig of Wrocław]]</small>
|align="center"|25 June 1304 – 24 July 1315||[[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Principality of Aschersleben]] ||[[Elisabeth of Meissen, Princess of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Elisabeth of Meissen]]<br>24 August 1309<br>two children
|align="center"|24 July 1315<br><small>aged 54–55</small>|| After his death in 1315 without male heirs opened a succession crisis in the Principality.
|- style="background:#cfc"
| [[Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Henry I ''Lackland'']] || 
|align="center"|21 March 1256<br><small>Son of [[John I, Margrave of Brandenburg|John I]] and [[:cs:Juta Saská (1240)|Judith of Saxony]]</small>
|align="center"|27 November 1308 – 14 February 1318||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Delitzsch]] since 1297; at [[Stendal]] since 1308)</small>||[[Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Agnes of Bavaria]]<br>1303<br>three children
|align="center"|14 February 1318<br><small>aged 61</small>||Younger brother of John II, Otto IV and Conrad I. Started his co-rulership in 1297, receiving seat at [[Delitzsch]]; he ended up as successor of his childless elder brother Otto IV. 
|- style="background:#ada"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regency of [[Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Valdemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal]] (1308–1316)''</small> 
|rowspan="5"|Children of Herman, divided the land:
* John V received the core of Salzwedel;
* Matilda received a seat at Lower Lusatia;
* Agnes received a seat at Altmark;
* Jutta received a seat at Coburg.

John's and Agnes' childless deaths left the main core of Salzwedel and the important seat of the Altmark to be reunited in Brandenburg. The remaining possessions were annexed by the respective marriages.
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|John V ''the Illustrious'']] ||
|align="center"|August 1302<br><small>Son of [[Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Herman]] and [[Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Anne of Austria]]</small>
|align="center"|1 February 1308 – 26 March 1317||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Salzwedel]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|26 March 1317<br>[[Spandau]]<br><small>aged 14</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[:uk:Матильда Бранденбург-Зальцведеля|Matilda]] ||
|align="center"|1296<br><small>First daughter of [[Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Herman]] and [[Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Anne of Austria]]</small>
|align="center"|1 February 1308 – 31 March 1329||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Lower Lusatia]])</small>||[[Henry IV the Faithful|Henry IV, Duke of Żagań]]<br>5 January 1310<br>four children
|align="center"|31 March 1329<br><small>aged 32–33</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[:de:Agnes von Brandenburg (1298–1334)|Agnes]]||[[File:Agnes of Branderburg (1334).JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1297<br><small>Second daughter of [[Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Herman]] and [[Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Anne of Austria]]</small>
|align="center"|1 February 1308 – 27 November 1334||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Altmark]])</small>||[[Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Valdemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal]]<br>1309<br>no children<br><br>[[Otto the Mild|Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br>1319<br>no children
|align="center"|27 November 1334<br>[[Braunschweig]]<br><small>aged 36–37</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
| [[Judith of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Judith]] ||[[File:Jutta Branderburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1301<br><small>Third daughter of [[Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel|Herman]] and [[Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Anne of Austria]]</small>
|align="center"|1 February 1308 – 1353||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Salzwedel]]<br><small>(at [[Coburg]])</small>||[[:bg:Хайнрих VIII (Хенеберг-Шлойзинген)|Henry VI, Count of Henneberg-Coburg]]<br>1 January 1317 or 1 February 1319<br>five children
|align="center"|1353<br><small>aged 51–52</small>
|- style="background:#ada"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Salzwedel and Altmark reunited with Stendal; Coburg returned to the [[House of Henneberg]], and Lower Lusatia was inherited by the [[Duchy of Żagań]]''
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Elisabeth of Meissen, Princess of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Elisabeth of Meissen]]||
|align="center"|c.1280?<br><small>Daughter of [[:de:Friedrich der Kleine|Frederick of Meissen, Margrave of Dresden]] and [[Judith of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|24 July 1315 – 1332||[[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Principality of Aschersleben]]<br><small>(in [[Aschersleben]])</small> ||[[Otto II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto II]]<br>24 August 1309<br>two children
|align="center"|1332<br><small>aged 51–52?</small>
|rowspan="4"| Succession crisis in Aschersleben: [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], supported [[Bernard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]] as successor, but Bernard ended up giving his rights to Aschersleben to the [[Bishopric of Halberstadt]]. However, it is known that Otto II's widow inherited Aschersleben as a seat, and that she had to obtain consent of her daughters ("heiresses of the Allodial") and approval of Bernard II of Bernburg for making her donations. This may possibly imply that, at least between Otto II's death (1315) and the definite delivery of Aschersleben to Halberstadt (December 1316), both Otto's minor daughters may have inherited the principality, under regency of the Prince of Bernburg, with Elisabeth receiving its main town as a widow's seat. 
|- style="background:#fde"
|colspan=7 style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regency of [[Bernard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]] (1315-1316)''</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Catharina of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Catharina]]||
|align="center"|c.1310<br><small>First daughter of [[Otto II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto II]] and [[Elisabeth of Meissen, Princess of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Elisabeth of Meissen]]</small>
|align="center" rowspan="2"|24 July 1315 – December 1316
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Principality of Aschersleben]]<br><small>(in the remaining principality)</small> ||[[:de:Hermann VI. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman VI, Count of Weimar]]<br>1328<br>two children
|align="center"|1369<br><small>aged 58–59</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Elisabeth of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Elisabeth]]||
|align="center"|c.1310<br><small>Second daughter of [[Otto II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Otto II]] and [[Elisabeth of Meissen, Princess of Anhalt-Aschersleben|Elisabeth of Meissen]]</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1319<br><small>aged 8–9</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''The whole Principality was definitively annexed by the [[Bishopric of Halberstadt]]''
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regency of [[Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Valdemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal]] (1316-1319)''</small> 
|rowspan="4"|Albert III and Valdemar I ruled jointly, as sons of Albert II. In 1359 Albert II associated his eldest son, Albert III, but he predeceased him. 
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert II]]||
|align="center"|c.1305<br><small>First son of [[Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert I]] and [[Agnes of Brandenburg-Stendal]]</small>
|align="center"|17 August 1316 – 17 July 1362
|rowspan="3"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]] ||[[Agnes of Rügen, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Agnes of Rügen]]<br/>2 September 1324<br/>no children<br><br>[[:bg:Беатрикс фон Саксония-Витенберг|Beatrice of Saxe-Wittenberg]]<br/>c.1337<br/>five children
|align="center"|17 July 1362<br><small>aged 56–57</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Waldemar I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Valdemar I]]||
|align="center"|c.1305<br><small>Second son of [[Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert I]] and [[Agnes of Brandenburg-Stendal]]</small>
|align="center"|17 August 1316 – 7 January 1368||[[:bg:Елизабет фон Саксония-Витенберг|Elisabeth of Saxe-Wittenberg]]<br/>22 June 1344<br/>six children<br><br>[[Beatrice d'Este, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst|Beatrice d'Este]]<br/>1365<br/>no children 
|align="center"|7 January 1368<br><small>aged 62–63</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Albert III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert III]]||
|align="center"|c.1337<br><small>First son of [[Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert II]] and [[:bg:Беатрикс фон Саксония-Витенберг|Beatrice of Saxe-Wittenberg]]</small>
|align="center"|1359 – 1 August 1359||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1 August 1359<br><small>aged 21–22</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
|rowspan="2"| [[Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Valdemar ''the Great'']] 
|rowspan="2"|[[File:Waldemar Markgraf Unger.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center" rowspan="2"|1280<br><small>Third son of [[Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Conrad I]] and [[Constance of Greater Poland]]</small>
|align="center"style="background:#cfc"|1305 – 14 February 1318
|style="background:#cfc"|[[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Margraviate of Stendal]]<br><small>(at [[Neumark]])</small>
|rowspan="2"|[[:de:Agnes von Brandenburg (1298–1334)|Agnes of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]<br>1309<br>no children
|align="center" rowspan="2"|14 August 1319<br>[[Mieszkowice]]<br><small>aged 38–39</small>
|rowspan="2"| Son of Conrad, co-ruled with his uncles since 1308. Left no descendants, and the margraviate went to his underage cousin.
|- style="background:#ceb"
|align="center"|14 February 1318 – 14 August 1319||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]
|- style="background:#bee"
|[[:de:Otto VI. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VI]]<ref name="RefNumb2">Otto VI was possibly younger than his cousin Otto V, but he ascended one year earlier then him.</ref>||[[File:HimmelkronOrlamuende.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1297<br><small>Son of [[:de:Otto IV (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto IV]] and [[Adelaide of Kafernburg]]</small>
|align="center"|1318 – 28 July 1340||County of [[Plassenburg]]||[[Kunigunde von Orlamünde|Kunigunde of Leuchtenberg]]<br>1321<br>no children
|align="center"|28 July 1340<br><small>aged 42–43</small>||Left no descendants. After his death his possessions were annexed by the [[House of Hohenzollern]].
|-style="background:#bee"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Plassenburg annexed to the [[House of Hohenzollern]]''
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[:nl:Frederik I van Weimar-Orlamünde|Frederick I ''the Elder'']]||[[File:Epiorlamuende7.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1290<br><small>First son of [[:de:Hermann IV. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman IV]] and [[Matilda of Rabenswald]]</small>
|align="center"|1319 – 25 July 1365||County of [[Weimar]]||[[Elisabeth of Meissen, Countess of Weimar|Elisabeth of Meissen]]<br><small>(d. 2 May 1347)</small><br>1322<br>three children
|align="center"|25 July 1365<br><small>aged 74–75</small>
|rowspan="2"|Children of Herman IV, divided their inheritance.
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:bg:Ото VIII (Ваймар-Орламюнде)|Otto V]]<ref name="RefNumb2"/>||
|align="center"|c.1290<br><small>Third son of [[:de:Hermann IV. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman IV]] and [[Matilda of Rabenswald]]</small>
|align="center"|1319 – 12 March 1335||County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]||[[:bg:Хелена фон Нюрнберг|Helena of Nuremberg]]<br>1321<br>three children
|align="center"|12 March 1335<br><small>aged 44–45</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"|<small>''Regency of [[Wartislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania]] (1319–1320)''</small> 
|rowspan="3"|Children of Henry I, divided their inheritance. Henry died as a minor, and the Brandenburg Ascanians were extinct in the male line. Their lands came under the control of the Emperor [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Louis IV]] of the [[House of Wittelsbach]], who granted Brandenburg to his eldest son, Louis V of Bavaria.
For Sophia, she inherited the Margraviate of Landsberg, which was inherited by her sons.
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg|Henry II ''the Child'']] ||[[File:Heinrich II Siegesallee.JPG|100px]] 
|align="center"|1302<br><small>Son of [[Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Henry I]] and [[Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Agnes of Bavaria]]</small>
|align="center"|14 August 1319 – July 1320||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|July 1320<br>[[Mieszkowice]]<br><small>aged 17–18</small>
|- style="background:#ceb"
| [[Sophia of Brandenburg|Sophia]] || 
|align="center"|1300<br><small>Daughter of [[Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Henry I]] and [[Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg|Agnes of Bavaria]]</small>
|align="center"|14 August 1319 – 1356||[[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]<br><small>(at [[Margraviate of Landsberg|Landsberg]])</small>||[[Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br>1327<br>eight children
|align="center"|1356<br><small>aged 55–56</small>
|-style="background:#ceb"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Brandenburg definitively annexed to the [[House of Wittelsbach]]; Landsberg definitely annexed to the [[House of Welf]]''
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|style="text-align:center"colspan="7"| <small>''Regency of [[Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg]] (1322–1330)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|[[Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert IV]]||
|align="center"|1315<br><small>Son of [[John II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John II]] and [[Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg]]</small>
|align="center"|1322–1343||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Mölln]] || [[Beata of Schwerin]]<br/>1334<br/>three child<br/><br/>[[Sophia of Werle-Güstrow]]<br/>1341<br/>no children
|align="center"|1343<br><small>aged 27–28</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard III]]||[[File:Siegel Bernhard III (Anhalt) - großes Reitersiegel.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1300<br><small>Son of [[Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard II]] and [[Helena of Rügen]]</small>
|align="center"|1323 – 20 August 1348||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||[[:bg:Агнес фон Саксония-Витенберг|Agnes of Saxe-Wittenberg]]<br>1328<br>five children<br><br>[[Matilda of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Matilda of Anhalt-Zerbst]]<br>1339<br>no children<br><br>[[Matilda of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Matilda of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]<br>1343<br>two children
|align="center"|20 August 1348<br><small>aged 47–48</small>|| 
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:bg:Фридрих II фон Орламюнде|Frederick II]]||
|align="center"|c.1321<br><small>Son of [[:bg:Ото VIII (Ваймар-Орламюнде)|Otto V]] and [[:bg:Хелена фон Нюрнберг|Helena of Nuremberg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 March 1335 – 14 October 1368||County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]||[[Sophia of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]<br><small>(d.1392)</small><br>18 November 1357<br>two children
|align="center"|14 October 1368<br><small>aged 46–47</small>||
|- style="background:#fc9;"
|[[Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric II]]||
|align="center"|1318<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Eric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric I]] and [[Elżbieta Bogusławówna|Elisabeth of Pomerania]]</small>
|align="center"|1338–1368||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Ratzeburg]] || [[Agnes of Holstein|Agnes of Holstein-Plön]]<br/>between 1342 and 1349<br/>four children
|align="center"|1368<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 49–50</small>||
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|style="text-align:center"colspan="7"| <small>''Regency of [[Sophia of Werle-Güstrow]] (1343-1349)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|Left no descendants. He was succeeded by his brother, Albert.
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|[[John III, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John III]]||
|align="center"|c.1335<br><small>First son of [[Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert IV]] and [[Beata of Schwerin]]</small>
|align="center"|1343–1356||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Mölln]] || ''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1356<br><small>aged 20–21</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard IV, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard IV]]||[[File:Siegel Bernhard IV (Anhalt) - Secret.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1330<br><small>First son of [[Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard III]] and [[:bg:Агнес фон Саксония-Витенберг|Agnes of Saxe-Wittenberg]]</small>
|align="center"|20 August 1348 – 28 June 1354||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|28 June 1354<br><small>aged 23–24</small>|| 
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:bg:Фридрих III (Орламюнде)|Frederick III]]||
|align="center"|c.1320<br><small>First son of [[:bg:Хайнрих III (Орламюнде)|Henry I]] and [[:bg:Ирмгард фон Шварцбург-Бланкенбург|Irmgard of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|26 March 1354 – 1379||County of [[Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Schauenforst]])</small>||''Unknown''<br>two children
|align="center"|1379<br><small>aged 58–59</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Henry I, ruled jointly. In 1354, Orlamunde was annexed to the [[House of Wettin]], and the family changed seat to [[Schauenforst]], while Frederick's brother Henry II ruled from [[Droyssig]]. After Henry's death, Frederick reunited Orlamunde.
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:bg:Хайнрих IV (Орламюнде)|Henry II]]||
|align="center"|c.1320<br><small>Second son of [[:bg:Хайнрих III (Орламюнде)|Henry I]] and [[:bg:Ирмгард фон Шварцбург-Бланкенбург|Irmgard of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|26 March 1354 – 1357||County of [[Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Droyssig]])</small>||[[Richeza of Henneberg]]<br><small>(d.1379)</small><br>1357<br>one child
|align="center"|1357<br><small>aged 36–37</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Henry IV, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Henry IV]]||
|align="center"|c.1330<br><small>Second son of [[Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard III]] and [[:bg:Агнес фон Саксония-Витенберг|Agnes of Saxe-Wittenberg]]</small>
|align="center"|28 June 1354 – 7 July 1374||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||[[Sophia of Stolberg]]<br>c.1345<br>three children
|align="center"|7 July 1374<br><small>aged 43–44</small>||Unlike usual co-rulerships seen in the family, Henry was bypassed by his older brother Bernard, who ruled alone. He only assumed rule of the principality when Bernard died in 1354. 
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|[[Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert V]]||
|align="center"|c.1335<br><small>Second son of [[Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert IV]] and [[Beata of Schwerin]]</small>
|align="center"|1356–1370||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Mölln]] || [[Catherine of Werle-Güstrow]]<br/>25 January 1366<br/>no children
|align="center"|1370<br><small>aged 34–35</small>|| Left no descendants. He was succeeded by his brother, Eric.
|- style="background:#fea;"
|'''[[Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Rudolph II ''the Blind'']]''' <br/>''(Rudolf II. der Blinde)''||[[File:Herzog Rudolf II von Sachsen-Wittenberg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1307<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>Son of [[Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Rudolph I]] and [[Judith of Brandenburg-Salzwedel]]</small>
|align="center"|12 March 1356 – 6 December 1370||'''[[Electorate of Saxony]]'''|| [[Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress of Saxony|Elisabeth of Hesse]]<br><small>(d.1354)</small><br/>1336<br/>three children<br><br>'''[[Elisabeth of Lindow-Ruppin, Electress of Saxony|Elisabeth of Lindow-Ruppin]]'''<br/>c.1355?<br/>no children
|align="center"|6 December 1370<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>aged 62–63</small>|| Left no descendants. He was succeeded by his half-brother.
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[:de:Hermann VI. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman VI]]||
|align="center"|c.1290?<br><small>Second son of [[:de:Hermann IV. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Herman IV]] and [[Matilda of Rabenswald]]</small>
|align="center" rowspan="2"|25 July 1365 – 1372
|rowspan="2"|County of [[Weimar]]||[[Catherine of Anhalt]]<br><small>(d. 15 April 1369)</small><br>1328<br>two children
|align="center"|1372<br><small>aged 81–82?</small>
|rowspan="2"| Uncle and nephew possibly ruled jointly. After Herman's death Weimar was annexed to the [[House of Wettin]].
|- style="background:#adf"
|[[Frederick IV, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Frederick IV ''the Younger'']]||
|align="center"|c.1325<br><small>Son of [[:nl:Frederik I van Weimar-Orlamünde|Frederick I]] and [[Elisabeth of Meissen, Countess of Weimar|Elisabeth of Meissen]]</small>||Irmgard<br>no children
|align="center"|1381<br><small>aged 55–56</small>
|-style="background:#adf"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[House of Wettin]]''
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:de:Otto X. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VII]]||[[File:Epiorlamuende6.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1360<br><small>Son of [[:bg:Фридрих II фон Орламюнде|Frederick II]] and [[Sophia of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|14 October 1368 – 1405||County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]||[[Liutgard Reuss of Gera]]<br><small>(d.c.1410)</small><br>c.1390<br>six children
|align="center"|1405<br>[[Ludwigsstadt]]<br><small>aged 44–45</small>||
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John II]]||
|align="center"|c.1340<br><small>Second son of [[Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Albert II]] and [[:bg:Беатрикс фон Саксония-Витенберг|Beatrice of Saxe-Wittenberg]]</small>
|align="center"|7 January 1368 – 11 April 1382
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]] ||[[Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen]]<br/>1366<br/>four children
|align="center"|11 April 1382<br><small>aged 41–42</small>
|rowspan="2"|Double cousins, ruled jointly.
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Waldemar II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Valdemar II]]||
|align="center"|c.1345<br><small>Son of [[Waldemar I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Valdemar I]] and [[:bg:Елизабет фон Саксония-Витенберг|Elisabeth of Saxe-Wittenberg]]</small>
|align="center"|7 January 1368 – 1371||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1371<br><small>aged 25–26</small>
|- style="background:#fea;"
|'''[[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Wenceslaus]]'''||[[File:Wenzel Herzog von Sachsen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1337<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>Son of [[Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Rudolph I]] and [[:it:Agnese di Lindow-Ruppin|Agnes of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1370 – 15 May 1388|| '''[[Electorate of Saxony]]''' ||'''[[:it:Cecilia da Carrara|Cecilia da Carrara]]'''<br/>23 January 1376<br/>six children
|align="center"|15 May 1388<br>[[Celle]]<br><small>aged 50–51</small>|| Brother of his predecessor. In 1370, jointly with his nephew [[Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg|Albert]], he managed to acquire the [[Principality of Lüneburg]]. This conquer was lost after his death.
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|[[Eric III, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric III]]||[[File:EricusDuxRatzeburg.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|c.1335<br><small>Third son of [[Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Albert IV]] and [[Beata of Schwerin]]</small>
|align="center"|1370 – 25 May 1401||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Mölln]] || ''Unmarried''
|align="center"|25 May 1401<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 65–66?</small>|| Determined to enter to clergy, has to resign to succeed his brothers. He also left no descendants, which allowed the Ratzeburg line to reunite the Duchy of Lauenburg.
|- style="background:#ec6;"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Mölln was annexed to Ratzeburg; Reunion of Lauenburg''
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Otto III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Otto III]]||
|align="center"|c.1345<br><small>Son of [[Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard III]] and [[Matilda of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]</small>
|align="center"|7 July 1374 – 27 February 1404||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||''Unknown''<br>two children<br><br>Lutrudis<br>before 1391<br>one child
|align="center"|27 February 1404<br><small>aged 58–59</small>||
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[:bg:Фридрих IV фон Орламюнде|Frederick V]]||
|align="center"|c.1360?<br><small>Son of [[:bg:Фридрих III (Орламюнде)|Frederick III]]</small>
|align="center"|1379–1405||County of [[Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Droyssig]])</small>||[[:bg:Катарина фон Глайхен|Catherine of Gleichen]]<br>c.1380?<br>two children
|align="center"|c.1405<br><small>aged 44–45</small>|| Changed seat once more to [[Droyssig]].
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund I]]||
|align="center"|c.1370<br><small>First son of [[John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John II]] and [[Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen]]</small>
|align="center"|11 April 1382 – 19 January 1405||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#ecd;">'''[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Zerbst]]'''</span> until 1396)</small>||[[Judith of Querfurt]]<br/>1386<br/>eleven children
|align="center"|19 January 1405<br>[[Coswig, Anhalt|Coswig]]<br><small>aged 34–35</small>
|rowspan="3" style="background:#ecd"| Sons of John II. Ruled jointly until 1396, when they divided their inheritance. 
|-style="background:#ccf"
||[[Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert IV]]||
|align="center"|c.1370<br><small>Second son of [[John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John II]] and [[Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen]]</small>
|align="center"|11 April 1382 – 24 November 1423||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#ecd;">'''[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Zerbst]]'''</span> until 1396)</small>||[[Elisabeth of Mansfeld (1403)|Elisabeth of Mansfeld (I)]]<br/>before 1398<br/>six children<br><br>[[Elisabeth of Querfurt]]<br/>before 4 January 1419<br/>three children
|align="center"|24 November 1423<br>[[Coswig, Anhalt|Coswig]]<br><small>aged 52–53</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Waldemar III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Valdemar III]]||
|align="center"|c.1370<br><small>Third son of [[John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John II]] and [[Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen]]</small>
|align="center"|11 April 1382 – 1391||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]] ||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1391<br><small>aged 20–21?</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Zerbst divided between Kothen and Dessau''
|- style="background:#fea;"
|'''[[Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Rudolph III]]'''||[[File:Rudolf III Kurfürst von Sachsen (AT KHM GG4790).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1378<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>First son of [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Wenceslaus]] and [[:it:Cecilia da Carrara|Cecilia da Carrara]]</small>
|align="center"|15 May 1388 – 11 June 1419|| '''[[Electorate of Saxony]]''' ||'''[[:it:Anna di Meißen|Anna of Meissen]]'''<br/>1387/89<br/>three children<br/><br/>'''[[:it:Barbara di Legnica|Barbara of Legnica]]'''<br/>March 1396<br/>two children
|align="center"|11 June 1419<br>in [[Bohemia]] ([[Prague]] (?))<br><small>aged 40–41</small>|| Left no male descendants. he was succeeded by his brother, Albert.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|rowspan="2"|[[Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric IV]]
|rowspan="2"|
|align="center" rowspan="2"|1354<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric II]] and [[Agnes of Holstein|Agnes of Holstein-Plön]]</small>
|align="center" style="background:#fc9;"|1368 – 25 May 1401
|style="background:#fc9;"|[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Ratzeburg]] 
|rowspan="2"| [[:sv:Sophia av Braunschweig-Lüneburg|Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br/>8 April 1373<br/>ten children
|align="center" rowspan="2"|21 June 1412<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 57–58</small>
|rowspan="2"| In 1401 reunited Saxe-Lauenburg.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|align="center"|25 May 1401 – 21 June 1412||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"| In 1401 the Ratzeburg line inherited the duchy of Mölln and reunited the Duchy of Lauenburg. 
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard V, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard V]]||
|align="center"|c.1350<br><small>Son of [[Henry IV, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Henry IV]] and [[Sophia of Stolberg]]</small>
|align="center"|27 February 1404 – 24 June 1420
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||[[Elisabeth of Hohnstein-Kelbra]]<br>8 September 1396<br>one child
|align="center"|24 June 1420<br><small>aged 69–70?</small>
|rowspan="2"|Cousins, ruled jointly. As neither of them left male heirs, the land was inherited by his other cousin, Bernard.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Otto IV, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Otto IV]]||
|align="center"|c.1380?<br><small>First son of [[Otto III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Otto III]]</small>
|align="center"|27 February 1404 – 1 May 1415||''Unmarried'' 
|align="center"|1 May 1415<br><small>aged 34–35?</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Waldemar IV, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Valdemar IV]]||
|align="center"|c.1386<br><small>First son of [[Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund I]] and [[Judith of Querfurt]]</small>
|align="center"|19 January 1405 – 1417
|rowspan="4"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1417<br><small>aged 30–31</small>
|rowspan="4"|Sons of Sigismund I, ruled jointly. In 1468 inherited Anhalt-Bernburg.
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I ''the Elder'']]||
|align="center"|1390<br><small>Second son of [[Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund I]] and [[Judith of Querfurt]]</small>
|align="center"|19 January 1405 – 22 September 1474||[[Matilda of Anhalt-Bernburg, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau|Matilda of Anhalt-Bernburg I]]<br/>after 1413<br/>no children<br><br>[[:de:Euphemia von Oels|Euphemia of Oleśnica]]<br/>1432<br/>six children<br><br>[[Sophia of Hohnstein]]<br/>after 1442<br/>three children<br><br>[[Anna of Lindow-Ruppin]]<br/>7 September 1453<br/>nine children
|align="center"|21 September 1474<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 83–84?</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Sigismund II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund II]]||
|align="center"|c.1390<br><small>Fourth son of [[Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund I]] and [[Judith of Querfurt]]</small>
|align="center"|19 January 1405 – 1452||[[Matilda of Anhalt-Bernburg (1443)|Matilda of Anhalt-Bernburg II]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|1452<br><small>aged 61–62</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Albert V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Albert V]]||
|align="center"|c.1390<br><small>Fifth son of [[Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund I]] and [[Judith of Querfurt]]</small>
|align="center"|19 January 1405 – 1469||[[Sophie of Hadmersleben]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|1469<br><small>aged 78–79</small>
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:bg:Вилхелм I фон Орламюнде|William]]||
|align="center"|c.1395<br><small>First son of [[:de:Otto X. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VII]] and [[Liutgard Reuss of Gera]]</small>
|align="center"|1405 – 3 March 1460
|rowspan="2"|County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]||[[Catherine of Blankenhain]]<br>1427<br>two children
|align="center"|3 March 1460<br><small>aged 64–65?</small>
|rowspan="4"| Children of Otto VII, divided their inheritance, which was progressively annexed to the [[House of Wettin]]. Elisabeth's part of Lauenstein went to the [[House of Schwarzburg]].
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[Elisabeth of Weimar-Orlamünde, Countess of Lauenstein|Elisabeth (II)]]||
|align="center"|c.1395<br><small>Daughter of [[:de:Otto X. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VII]] and [[Liutgard Reuss of Gera]]</small>
|align="center"|1405–1450||[[:bg:Хайнрих XXIII (Шварцбург)|Henry XVIII, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg]]<br>no children
|align="center"|c.1450<br><small>aged 54–55?</small>
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:bg:Ото VIII фон Орламюнде|Otto VIII]]||
|align="center"|c.1395<br><small>Second son of [[:de:Otto X. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VII]] and [[Liutgard Reuss of Gera]]</small>
|align="center"|1405 – 30 March 1460||County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]<br><small>(at [[Grafenthal]])</small>||[[Agnes of Beichlingen]]<br><small>(d. 2 May 1347)</small><br>1322<br>three children
|align="center"|30 March 1460<br><small>aged 64–65?</small>
|- style="background:#cef"
|[[:de:Sigismund von Weimar-Orlamünde|Sigismund]]||
|align="center"|c.1395<br><small>Third son of [[:de:Otto X. (Weimar-Orlamünde)|Otto VII]] and [[Liutgard Reuss of Gera]]</small>
|align="center"|1405 – 2 July 1447||County of [[:de:Lauenstein (Ludwigsstadt)|Lauenstein]]<br><small>(at [[Lichtenberg, Berlin|Lichtenberg]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|2 July 1447<br><small>aged 51–52?</small>
|-style="background:#cef"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[House of Wettin]]''
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Henry III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Henry III]]||
|align="center"|c.1390?<br><small>First son of [[:bg:Фридрих IV фон Орламюнде|Frederick V]] and [[:bg:Катарина фон Глайхен|Catherine of Gleichen]]</small>
|align="center"|1405–1423
|rowspan="2"|County of [[Orlamünde]]<br><small>(at [[Droyssig]])</small>
|rowspan="2"|''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1423<br><small>aged 32–33?</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Frederick V, ruled jointly. After their childless deaths their possessions were annexed by the [[House of Wettin]].
|- style="background:#aee"
|[[Martin, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde|Martin]]||
|align="center"|c.1390?<br><small>Second son of [[:bg:Фридрих IV фон Орламюнде|Frederick V]] and [[:bg:Катарина фон Глайхен|Catherine of Gleichen]]</small>
|align="center"|1405
|align="center"|1405<br><small>aged 14–15?</small>
|-style="background:#aee"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[House of Wettin]]''
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Eric V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric V]]||
|align="center"|c.1375<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>First son of [[Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric IV]] and [[:sv:Sophia av Braunschweig-Lüneburg|Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|21 June 1412 – 1436
|rowspan="2"|[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[:sv:Elisabeth av Holstein (död 1416)|Elisabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg]]<br/>1404<br/>no children<br/><br/>[[Elisabeth of Weinsberg]]<br/>before 1422<br/>one child
|align="center"|1436<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 60–61</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Eric IV, ruled jointly.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[John IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John IV]]<ref>The numberings here lead to some confusion, as not all genealogists of the House of Ascania count John IV in the list of dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg, numbering John V (John IV's nephew) as ''John IV''.</ref>||
|align="center"|c.1375<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric IV]] and [[:sv:Sophia av Braunschweig-Lüneburg|Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|21 June 1412 – 1414||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1414<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 38–39</small>
|- style="background:#fea;"
|'''[[Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Albert III]]'''||[[File:Albrecht III., Elector, son of Wenzeslaus, died 1422 (AT KHM GG4791).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1380<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg|Wenceslaus]] and [[:it:Cecilia da Carrara|Cecilia da Carrara]]</small>
|align="center"|11 June 1419 – 1422|| '''[[Electorate of Saxony]]''' ||'''[[:de:Euphemia von Oels|Euphemia of Oleśnica]]'''<br/>14 January 1420<br/>no children
|align="center"|1422<br>[[Wittenberg]]<br><small>aged 41–42</small>|| Left no male descendants, which led the Ascanian Saxe-Wittenberg line to extinction. 
|- style="background:#fea;"
|style="text-align:center" colspan=8|The Ascanian Dynasty became extinct in Wittenberg in 1422. However, the dynasty's presence in Saxony continued, through the Duchy of Lauenburg, until 1689. After losing the Saxon Electorate to the Wittenberg line in 1356, and failing to obtain it again in 1422, the recognition of power of this Lauenburg line as Dukes of Saxony weakened. To follow the remnant House of Ascania in Saxe-Lauenburg, follow this table. For the following Electors of Saxony, see [[Rulers of Saxony]].
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Bernhard VI, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Bernard VI]]||
|align="center"|c.1390?<br><small>Second son of [[Otto III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Otto III]]</small>
|align="center"|24 June 1420 – 2 February 1468||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]] ||[[Matilda of Querfurt-Burgscheidungen]]<br>21 October 1419<br>two children<br><br>[[Hedwig of Żagań, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg|Hedwig of Żagań]]<br>11 March 1434<br>no children
|align="center"|2 February 1468<br><small>aged 77–78?</small>||His children predeceased him, which left him with no heirs at his death in 1468. Bernburg was inherited by the Dessau line.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"|''Anhalt-Bernburg was annexed to Anhalt-Dessau''
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Adolph I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Adolph I]]||
|align="center"|c.1400<br><small>First son of [[Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert IV]] and [[Elisabeth of Mansfeld (1403)|Elisabeth of Mansfeld (I)]]</small>
|align="center"|24 November 1423 – 28 August 1473
|rowspan="3"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]||[[Cordula of Lindow-Ruppin]]<br/>2 November 1442<br/>[[Neuruppin|Ruppin]]<br>seven children
|align="center"|28 August 1473<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 72–73?</small>
|rowspan="3"| Ruled jointly. Adolph ruled with his brother Valdemar V until 1436 and then with Valdemar's son John. In 1436, shortly after his father's death, John III renounced his rights to the principality. In 1471, Adolph concluded a succession contract with [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]], which would put the latter's youngest son in Köthen's throne as Valdemar VI. 
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Waldemar V, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Valdemar V]]||
|align="center"|c.1400<br><small>Second son of [[Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert IV]] and [[Elisabeth of Mansfeld (1403)|Elisabeth of Mansfeld (I)]]</small>
|align="center"|24 November 1423 – 1436||[[Sophie of Hadmersleben]]<br/>1420<br>no children
|align="center"|1436<br><small>aged 35–36?</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[John III, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|John III]]||
|align="center"|c.1415?<br><small>Son of [[Waldemar V, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Valdemar V]] and [[Sophie of Hadmersleben]]</small>
|align="center"|1436||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|1463<br><small>aged 47–48?</small>
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Bernard II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Bernard II]]<ref>Numbered after [[Bernard, Count of Anhalt]], who was also Duke of Saxony.</ref>||
|align="center"|1385<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Third son of [[Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Eric IV]] and [[:sv:Sophia av Braunschweig-Lüneburg|Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]</small>
|align="center"|1436 – 16 July 1463||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[:pl:Adelajda Bogusławówna|Adelaide of Pomerania-Stolp]]<br/>2 February 1429<br/>two children
|align="center"|16 July 1463<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 77–78</small>||
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John V]]<ref>Sometimes numbered ''John IV''. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, John IV (Eric V and Bernard IV's brother) and a son of his own ([[John IV of Saxe-Lauenburg (prince-bishop)|John IV, Bishop of Hildesheim]]).</ref>||
|align="center"|18 July 1439<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Bernard II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Bernard II]] and [[:pl:Adelajda Bogusławówna|Adelaide of Pomerania-Stolp]]</small>
|align="center"|16 July 1463 – 15 August 1507||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg|Dorothea of Brandenburg]]<br/>12 February 1464<br/>twelve children
|align="center"|15 August 1507<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 68</small>|| 
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Waldemar VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Valdemar VI]]||
|align="center"|1450<br><small>Son of <span style="background-color:#fde;">[[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]]</span> and [[Sophia of Hohnstein]]</small>
|align="center"|28 August 1473 – 1 November 1508
|rowspan="5"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]] ||[[Margaret of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt]]<br/>24 January 1485<br/>[[Köthen]]<br>four children
|align="center"|1 November 1508<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 57–58</small>
|rowspan="5"| After the contract established with Dessau, this line of princes dominated in Köthen. After the death of Adolph in 1473, George I of Dessau's sons, Valdemar VI and Albert VI, ascended to the principality. After Albert's death, Valdemar co-ruled with his nephews. In 1508, all his co-rulers abdicated to him.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Albert VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert VI]]||
|align="center"|c.1420<br><small>Son of [[Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert IV]] and [[Elisabeth of Querfurt]]</small>
|align="center"|28 August 1473 – 9 January 1475||[[Elisabeth of Mansfeld (1482)|Elisabeth of Mansfeld (II)]]<br/>27 March 1454<br/>[[Alsleben]]<br>seven children
|align="center"|9 January 1475<br><small>aged 54–55</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Philip]]||
|align="center"|31 May 1468<br><small>Son of [[Albert VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Albert VI]] and [[Elisabeth of Mansfeld (1482)|Elisabeth of Mansfeld (II)]]</small>
|align="center"|9 January 1475 – 13 November 1500
|rowspan="3"|''Unmarried''
|align="center"|13 November 1500<br><small>aged 32</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Magnus, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Magnus]]||
|align="center"|1455<br><small>Third son of [[Adolph I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Adolph I]] and [[Cordula of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center" rowspan="2"|28 August 1473 – 1508
|align="center"|29 October 1524<br><small>aged 68–69</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Adolph II]]||
|align="center"|16 October 1458<br><small>Fifth son of [[Adolph I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Adolph I]] and [[Cordula of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|24 March 1526<br>[[Merseburg]]<br><small>aged 67</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Ernest I]]||
|align="center"|1454<br><small>First son of [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I]] and [[Anna of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|21 September 1474 – 12 June 1516
|rowspan="4"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||[[Margaret of Münsterberg]]<br/>20 January 1494<br/>[[Cottbus]]<br/>four children
|align="center"|12 June 1516<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 61–62</small>
|rowspan="4"| Sons of George I, co-ruled jointly with their father since 1471, and continued the joint rule after his death.
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George II ''the Strong'']]||
|align="center"|1454<small>Second son of [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I]] and [[Anna of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|1474 – 25 April 1509||[[:pl:Agnieszka Barnimówna|Agnes of Pomerania-Barth]]<br/>1478<br/>no children
|align="center"|25 April 1509<br><small>aged 54–55</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Sigismund III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Sigismund III]]||
|align="center"|1456<br><small>Third son of [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I]] and [[Anna of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|21 September 1474 – 27 November 1487
|rowspan="2"|''Unmarried''
|align="center"|27 November 1487<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 30–31</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Rudolph IV, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Rudolph ''the Valiant'']]<ref>Sometimes numbered ''Rudolph IV''.</ref>||
|align="center"|1466<br><small>Fourth son of [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I]] and [[Anna of Lindow-Ruppin]]</small>
|align="center"|21 September 1474 – 7 September 1510
|align="center"|7 September 1510<br><small>aged 43–44</small>
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Magnus I]]||[[File:MagnusISaLauenb.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1 January 1470<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|John V]] and [[Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg|Dorothea of Brandenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|15 August 1507 – 1 August 1543||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg|Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>20 November 1509<br/>[[Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|1 August 1543<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 73</small>||
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Wolfgang ''the Confessor'']]||[[File:WolfgangvonAnhalt.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|1 August 1492<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Son of [[Waldemar VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Valdemar VI]] and [[Margaret of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt]]</small>
|align="center"|1 November 1508 – 23 March 1566||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(at [[Coswig, Anhalt|Coswig]] only, since 1562)</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|23 March 1566<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 73</small>|| Sole ruler of Köthen. In 1562, without descendants, he abdicated of all his territories, with the sole exception of [[Coswig, Anhalt|Coswig]] (which he kept until his death) to the recreated Principality of Zerbst.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Köthen (and later Coswig) annexed to Zerbst''
|- style="background:#fde"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Margaret of Münsterberg]] (1516–1524)''</small>
|rowspan="4"|Children of Ernest I, ruled jointly, firstly under their mother. In 1544, the brothers divided the land. Joachim mainteined Dessau to himself; John took Zerbst and refounded Anhalt-Zerbst; George took Plotzkau. After George and Joachim's deaths without descendants, their lands were inherited by their nephews, sons of John III.
|-style="background:#ecd"
||[[John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John V]]<ref>Despite being the fourth ruler in Dessau/Zerbst named John, sources count John, canon of Merseburg (d.1455)<!--Q75289206-->, a brother of [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George I of Dessau]] who never ruled, as ''John IV''. This compromises the countings of John V and John VI, the fourth and fifth rulers of Anhalt of this name.</ref>||[[File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Bildnis des Fürsten Johann (Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|4 September 1504<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Second son of [[Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Ernest I]] and [[Margaret of Münsterberg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 June 1516 – 4 February 1551||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#fde;">'''Dessau'''</span> until 1544)</small>)||[[Margaret of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania|Margaret of Brandenburg]]<br/>15 February 1534<br>[[Dessau]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|4 February 1551<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 46</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|George III ''the God-Blessed'']]||[[File:GeorgeIII-Anhalt-Dessau.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|15 August 1507<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Third son of [[Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Ernest I]] and [[Margaret of Münsterberg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 June 1516 – 17 October 1553||[[Principality of Anhalt-Plotzkau|Principality of Dessau<br><small>(in co-rulership until 1544; at Plotzkau since 1544)</small>]]
|rowspan="2"|''Unmarried''
|align="center"|17 October 1553<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 46</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Joachim I]]||[[File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Bildnis des Fürsten Joachim (Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|7 August 1509<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Fourth son of [[Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Ernest I]] and [[Margaret of Münsterberg]]</small>
|align="center"|12 June 1516 – 6 December 1561||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]<br><small>(in co-rulership until 1544)</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1561<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 52</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|align="center" colspan="8"|''Dessau and Plotzkau annexed to Zerbst''
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis I]]||
|align="center"|1510<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Magnus I]] and [[Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg|Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]</small>
|align="center"|1 August 1543 – 1571<br><br>1573 – 19 March 1581||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Sibylle of Saxony]]<br/>8 February 1540<br/>[[Dresden]]<br/>nine children
|align="center"|19 March 1581<br>[[Buxtehude]]<br><small>aged 70–71</small>|| In 1571 – highly indebted – Francis I resigned in favour of his eldest son Magnus II, who had promised to redeem the pawned ducal demesnes with funds he gained as Swedish military commander and by his marriage to a Swedish princess. However, after warring with his son and pushing him back, he regained the title.
|-style="background:#ecd"
||[[Karl I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Charles I]]||
|align="center" |17 November 1534<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>First son of [[John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John V]] and [[Margaret of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania|Margaret of Brandenburg]]</small>
|align="center" |4 February 1551 – 4 May 1561||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(in co-rulership)</small>||[[:pl:Anna pomorska (1531–1592)|Anna of Pomerania-Stettin]]<br/>16 May 1557<br>[[Zerbst]]<br/>no children
|align="center" |4 May 1561<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 26</small>
|rowspan="3" style="background:#fde"| Children of John V, ruled jointly. In 1553 inherited Plotzkau from their uncle George III. In 1561 inherited Dessau and Bernburg from their uncle Joachim. In the next year inherited Kothen. From 1570 Joachim Ernest was the sole owner of all Anhalt.
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]]||[[File:Lucas Cranach d.J. - Bildnis des Fürsten Joachim Ernst von Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|21 October 1536<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Second son of [[John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John V]] and [[Margaret of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania|Margaret of Brandenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|4 February 1551 – 6 December 1586
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in <span style="background-color:#ecd;">'''Zerbst'''</span> until 1562)</small>||[[:pt:Inês de Barby-Mühlingen|Agnes of Barby-Mühlingen]]<br/>3 March 1560<br>[[Barby, Germany|Barby]]<br/>six children<br><br>[[:de:Eleonore von Württemberg|Eleonore of Württemberg]]<br/>9 January 1571<br>[[Stuttgart]]<br/>ten children
|align="center" |6 December 1586<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 50</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Bernard VII]]||
|align="center"|17 March 1540<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Third son of [[John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John V]] and [[Margaret of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania|Margaret of Brandenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|4 February 1551 – 1 March 1570||[[:nl:Clara van Brunswijk-Lüneburg|Clara of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br/>28 May 1565<br>[[Dessau]]<br/>one child
|align="center"|1 March 1570<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 29</small>
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Magnus II]]||
|align="center"|1543<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis I]] and [[Sibylle of Saxony]]</small>
|align="center"|1571–1573||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Princess Sophia of Sweden|Sophia of Sweden]]<br/>4 July 1568<br/>[[Stockholm]]<br/>one child
|align="center"|14 March 1603<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>aged 59–60</small>|| Eldest son of Francis I. He didn't pay the debts he promised to pay and led to war with his father and brothers. Two years later they deposed Magnus II and Francis I re-ascended. Magnus' violent and judicial attempts to regain the duchy failed. In 1588 he was imprisoned for the remainder of his life.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis II]]||[[File:Franz der 2. Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|10 August 1547<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Third son of [[Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis I]] and [[Sibylle of Saxony]]</small>
|align="center"|19 March 1581 – 2 July 1619
|rowspan="2"|[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[:pl:Małgorzata pomorska (1553–1581)|Margaret of Pomerania-Wolgast]]<br/>26 December 1574<br/>[[Wolgast]]<br/>four children<br/><br/>[[Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>10 November 1582<br/>[[Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>fourteen children
|align="center"|2 July 1619<br>[[Lauenburg]]<br><small>aged 71</small>
|rowspan="2"| Brothers of Magnus II, ruled jointly. Francis was vice-regent from 1578, and administrator from 1581. 
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Maurice]]||
|align="center"|1551<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Fifth son of [[Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis I]] and [[Sibylle of Saxony]]</small>
|align="center"|19 March 1581 – 2 November 1612|| [[Katharina von Spörck]]<br/>1581<br/><small>(annulled 1582)</small><br/>no children
|align="center"|2 November 1612<br>[[Buxtehude]]<br><small>aged 60–61</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John George I ''the Fragrant'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:Johano Georgo la 1-a (1567-1618).JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|9 May 1567<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br><small>First son of [[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]] and [[:pt:Inês de Barby-Mühlingen|Agnes of Barby-Mühlingen]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1586 – 24 May 1618||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in the whole '''Anhalt''' until 1603)</small>||[[:bg:Доротея фон Мансфелд-Арнщайн|Dorothea of Mansfeld-Arnstein]]<br/>22 February 1588<br>[[Hedersleben, Mansfeld-Südharz|Hedersleben]]<br/>five children<br><br>[[Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern|Dorothea of Palatinate-Simmern]]<br/>21 February 1595<br>[[Heidelberg]]<br/>eleven children
|align="center"|24 May 1618<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 51</small>
|rowspan="5"|Sons of Joachim Ernest, ruled jointly. In 1603 divided their inheritance.
|-style="background:#ecf"
||[[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian I ''the Longing'']]<ref name="Fruit">Nickname given to him by the [[Fruitbearing Society]].</ref>||[[File:Christian I Anhalt Bernburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|11 May 1568<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]] and [[:pt:Inês de Barby-Mühlingen|Agnes of Barby-Mühlingen]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1586 – 17 April 1630||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in the whole '''Anhalt''' until 1603)</small>||[[Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]]<br/>2 July 1595<br>[[Lorbach]]<br/>sixteen children
|align="center"|17 April 1630<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 61</small>
|-style="background:#fbd"
||[[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Augustus ''the Victorious'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||
|align="center"|14 July 1575<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Second son of [[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]] and [[:de:Eleonore von Württemberg|Eleonore of Württemberg]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1586 – 22 August 1653||[[Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Principality of Plötzkau]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in the whole '''Anhalt''' until 1603)</small>||[[:fr:Sibylle de Solms-Laubach|Sibylle of Solms-Laubach]]<br/>25 January 1618<br>[[Ansbach]]<br/>eight children
|align="center"|22 August 1653<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>aged 78</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
||[[Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Rudolph ''the Sweet'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||[[File:Rudolf (Anhalt-Zerbst).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|28 October 1576<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br><small>Third son of [[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]] and [[:de:Eleonore von Württemberg|Eleonore of Württemberg]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1586 – 30 July 1621||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in the whole '''Anhalt''' until 1603)</small>||[[Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>29 December 1605<br>[[Wolfenbüttel]]<br/>four children<br><br>[[:uk:Магдалена Ольденбурзька|Magdalena of Oldenburg]]<br>31 August 1612<br>[[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg]]<br>two children
|align="center"|30 July 1621<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 44</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
||[[Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Louis I ''the Nourishing'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||[[File:Ludwig I. von Anhalt-Köthen.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|17 June 1579<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Fifth son of [[Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]] and [[:de:Eleonore von Württemberg|Eleonore of Württemberg]]</small>
|align="center"|6 December 1586 – 7 January 1650||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(in co-rulership in the whole '''Anhalt''' until 1603)</small>||[[:bg:Амоена Амалия фон Бентхайм-Текленбург|Amöena Amalie of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]]<br/>31 October 1606<br>[[Rheda, Germany|Rheda]]<br/>two children<br><br>[[:bg:София фон Липе|Sophia of Lippe]]<br/>12 September 1626<br>[[Detmold]]<br/>two children
|align="center"|7 January 1650<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 70</small>
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John Casimir ''the Penetrating'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:Johann Kasimir Fürst Anhalt-Dessau.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|17 December 1596<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John George I]] and [[Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern|Dorothea of Palatinate-Simmern]]</small>
|align="center"|24 May 1618 – 15 September 1660||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||[[Agnes of Hesse-Kassel]]<br/>18 May 1623<br>[[Dessau]]<br/>six children<br><br>[[:fr:Sophie-Marguerite d'Anhalt-Bernbourg|Sophie Margaret of Anhalt-Bernburg]]<br/>14 July 1651<br>[[Dessau]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|15 September 1660<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 63</small>|| 
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Augustus ''the Hundred-fold'']]|| [[File:August, 1577-1656, hertig av Sachsen-Lauenburg - Nationalmuseum - 14708.tif|100px]]
|align="center"|17 February 1577<br>[[Ratzeburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis II]] and [[:pl:Małgorzata pomorska (1553–1581)|Margaret of Pomerania-Wolgast]]</small>
|align="center"|2 July 1619 – 18 January 1656||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[:da:Elisabeth Sophie af Slesvig-Holsten-Gottorp|Elisabeth Sophie of Holstein-Gottorp]]<br/>5 March 1621<br/>[[Husum]]<br/>six children<br/><br/>[[:bg:Катарина фон Олденбург|Catherina of Oldenburg]]<br/>4 June 1633<br/>no children
|align="center"|18 January 1656<br>[[Lauenburg]]<br><small>aged 78</small>|| Left no male descendants; he was succeeded by his half-brother Julius Henry.
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau]] (1621–1642)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John VI ''the Well-Formed'']]<ref>Actually the fifth ruler named John. See note for John V of Zerbst.</ref><ref name="Fruit"/>||[[File:Johann von Anhalt-Zerbst.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|24 March 1621<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>Son of [[Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Rudolph]] and [[:uk:Магдалена Ольденбурзька|Magdalena of Oldenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|30 July 1621 – 4 July 1667||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]||[[Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp]]<br/>16 September 1649<br>[[Gottorp]]<br/>fourteen children
|align="center"|4 July 1667<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 46</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian II ''the Unchangeable'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:Christian II. (Anhalt-Bernburg).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|11 August 1599<br>[[Amberg]]<br><small>Second son of [[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian I]] and [[Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|17 April 1630 – 22 September 1656||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[Eleonore Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg|Eleonore Sophie of Holstein-Sonderburg]]<br/>28 February 1625<br>[[Ahrensbök]]<br/>fifteen children
|align="center"|22 September 1656<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 57</small>
|rowspan="2"|Children of Christian I, divided their inheritance.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode|Frederick ''the Reasonable'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:Portret van Friedrich, Fürst zu Anhalt-Bernburg-Harzgerode, RP-P-1911-4135.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|16 November 1613<br>[[Ensdorf, Bavaria|Ensdorf]]<br><small>Fourth son of [[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian I]] and [[Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|17 April 1630 – 30 June 1670||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(at [[Harzgerode]])</small>||[[Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar]]<br/>10 August 1642<br>[[Bückeburg]]<br/>three children<br><br>[[Anna Catharina of Lippe-Detmold]]<br/><small>(31 July 1612 – 15 October 1659)</small><br>26 May 1657<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|30 June 1670<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>aged 56</small>
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau]], [[Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]] and [[Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]] (1650–1653)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|After his death without descendants, his previous regents took over the principality for themselves.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|William Louis ''the Achiever'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||
|align="center"|3 August 1638<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Son of [[Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Louis I]] and [[:bg:София фон Липе|Sophia of Lippe]]</small>
|align="center"|7 January 1650 – 13 April 1665||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]||[[Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode]]<br/>25 August 1663<br>[[Köthen]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|13 April 1665<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 26</small>
|-style="background:#fbd"
||[[Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Ernest Gottlieb]]||
|align="center"|4 September 1620<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>First son of [[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Augustus]] and [[:fr:Sibylle de Solms-Laubach|Sibylle of Solms-Laubach]]</small>
|align="center"|22 August 1653 – 7 March 1654||[[Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Principality of Plötzkau]]||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|7 March 1654<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>aged 33</small>||
|-style="background:#ccf"
|rowspan="2"|[[Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Lebrecht I ''the Pleasant'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>
|rowspan="2"|[[File:Leberecht von Anhalt-Köthen (1622 - 1669).jpg|100px]]
|rowspan="2" align="center"|8 April 1622<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>Second son of [[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Augustus]] and [[:fr:Sibylle de Solms-Laubach|Sibylle of Solms-Laubach]]</small>
|style="background:#fbd" align="center"|7 March 1654 – 13 April 1665
|style="background:#fbd"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Principality of Plötzkau]]
|rowspan="2"|[[:bg:София Елеонора фон Щолберг-Вернигероде|Sophie Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]<br/>18 January 1655<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br/>no children
|rowspan="2" align="center"|7 November 1669<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 47</small>
|rowspan="4"| Cousins of William Louis, and princes of Anhalt-Plötzkau, they served as regents for their cousin alongside their uncle, Augustus. After William Louis' death in 1665, they took the principality of Köthen for themselves, giving away their inheritance in Plötzkau to Anhalt-Bernburg.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|align="center"|13 April 1665 – 7 November 1669||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]
|-style="background:#ccf"
|rowspan="2"|[[Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Emmanuel ''the Striving'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> 
|rowspan="2"|[[File:Emanuel, 1631-1670, furste av Anhalt-Plötzkau Anhalt- Köthen - Nationalmuseum - 15532.tif|100px]]
|rowspan="2" align="center"|6 October 1631<br>[[Plötzkau]]<br><small>Third son of [[Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Augustus]] and [[:fr:Sibylle de Solms-Laubach|Sibylle of Solms-Laubach]]</small>
|align="center" style="background:#fbd"|7 March 1654 – 13 April 1665
|style="background:#fbd"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau|Principality of Plötzkau]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Anna Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]<br/>23 March 1670<br>[[Ilsenburg]]<br>one child
|rowspan="2" align="center"|8 November 1670<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 39</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|align="center"|13 April 1665 – 8 November 1670||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]
|-style="background:#fbd"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Plotzkau definitively annexed to the [[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]''
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Amadeus ''the Praised'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:Fürst Viktor Amadeus von Anhalt Bernburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|6 October 1634<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br><small>Son of [[Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Christian II]] and [[Eleonore Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg|Eleonore Sophie of Holstein-Sonderburg]]</small>
|align="center"|22 September 1656 – 14 February 1718||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken|Elisabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken]]<br/>16 October 1667<br>[[Meisenheim]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|14 February 1718<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 83</small>|| Annexed Anhalt-Plötzkau in 1665.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Julius Henry, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Julius Henry ''the Lucky'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||[[File:JuliusHendrikSaksenLauenburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|9 April 1586<br>[[Wolfenbüttel]]<br><small>Son of [[Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis II]] and [[Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]</small>
|align="center"|18 January 1656 – 20 November 1665||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Anne of Ostfriesland|Anna of East Frisia]]<br/>17 March 1617<br/>[[Grabow]]<br/>no children<br/><br/>[[Elisabeth Sophia of Brandenburg]]<br/>4 June 1633<br/>[[Toužim]]<br/>one son<br/><br/>[[:fr:Anne-Madeleine de Lobkowicz|Anna Magdalena of Lobkowicz]]<br/>18 August 1632<br/>[[Vienna]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|20 November 1665<br>[[Prague]]<br><small>aged 79</small>|| 
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John George II ''the Filled'']]<ref name="Fruit"/> ||[[File:John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|17 November 1627<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John Casimir]] and [[Agnes of Hesse-Kassel]]</small>
|align="center"|15 September 1660 – 7 August 1693||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||[[Henriette Catherine of Nassau|Henriette Catherine of Orange-Nassau]]<br/>9 September 1659<br>[[Groningen]]<br/>five children
|align="center"|7 August 1693<br>[[Berlin]]<br><small>aged 65</small>|| Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he also served as regent for his cousin, Emmanuel Lebrecht of Anhalt-Kothen, together with the prince's mother, Anna Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Francis Erdmann, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Francis Erdmann ''the Growing'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||
|align="center"|25 February 1629<br>[[Toužim]]<br><small>Son of [[Julius Henry, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Julius Henry]] and [[Elisabeth Sophia of Brandenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|20 November 1665 – 30 July 1666||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[:de:Sibylle Hedwig von Sachsen-Lauenburg|Sibylle Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg]]<br/>1654<br/>no children
|align="center"|30 July 1666<br>[[Schwarzenbek]]<br><small>aged 37</small>||Left no descendants; He was succeeded by his brother Julius Francis.
|- style="background:#fedf;"
|[[Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Julius Francis]]||[[File:JuliusFransSaksenLauenburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|16 September 1641<br>[[Prague]]<br><small>Son of [[Julius Henry, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg|Julius Henry]] and [[:fr:Anne-Madeleine de Lobkowicz|Anna Magdalena of Lobkowicz]]</small>
|align="center"|30 July 1666 – 30 September 1689||[[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Lauenburg]]|| [[Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach]]<br/>9 April 1668<br/>[[Sulzbach-Rosenberg|Sulzbach]]<br/>two children
|align="center"|30 September 1689<br>[[Zákupy]]<br><small>aged 48</small>|| 
|-style="background:#fedf"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[House of Welf]]''
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp]] (1667–1674)''</small>
|rowspan="4"| Children of John VI, divided their inheritance.
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Charles William ''the Shadowy'']]<ref name="Fruit"/>||[[File:Carl Wilhelm von Anhalt-Zerbst.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|16 October 1652<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>Third son of [[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John VI]] and [[Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp]]</small>
|align="center"|4 July 1667 – 3 November 1718||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]||[[Duchess Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels|Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels]]<br/>18 June 1676<br>[[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]<br/>three children
|align="center"|3 November 1718<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 66</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Anthony Günther, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Anton Günther]]|| [[File:AntonGüntherAnhZerbst.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|11 November 1653<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>Fourth son of [[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John VI]] and [[Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp]]</small>
|align="center"|4 July 1667 – 1 November 1704||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(at [[Mühlingen]])</small>||''[[Auguste Antonie Marschall of Bieberstein]]''<br><small>(3 March 1659 – 28 December 1736)</small><br/>1 January 1705<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br/>seven children
|align="center"|10 December 1714<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 61</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg|John Louis I]]||
|align="center"|4 May 1656<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>Sixth son of [[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John VI]] and [[Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp]]</small>
|align="center"|4 July 1667 – 1 November 1704||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(at [[Dornburg]])</small>||''[[Christine Eleonore of Zeutsch]]''<br><small>(5 June 1666 – 17 May 1699)</small><br/>23 July 1687<br>[[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br/>seven children
|align="center"|1 November 1704<br>[[Dornburg]]<br><small>aged 48</small>
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"|''Mühlingen reannexed to Zerbst''
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode|William Louis]]||[[File:Arolsen Klebeband 01 305.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|18 August 1643<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br><small>Son of [[Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode|Frederick]] and [[Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar]]</small>
|align="center"|30 June 1670 – 14 October 1709||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(at [[Harzgerode]])</small>||[[Elisabeth Juliana of Solms-Laubach]]<br/><small>(6 March 1631 – 2 January 1693)</small><br>25 July 1671<br>[[Laubach]]<br/>no children<br><br>[[Sophie Auguste of Nassau-Dillenburg]]<br/><small>(28 April 1666 – 14 January 1733)</small><br>20 October 1695<br>[[Frederiksborg Castle|Frederiksborg]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|14 October 1709<br>[[Harzgerode]]<br><small>aged 66</small>|| After his death, Harzgerode merged again in Bernburg.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"|''Harzgerode reannexed to Bernburg''
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regencies of [[Anna Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode]] (1670–1690) and [[John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (1690–1692)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Emmanuel Lebrecht]]||[[File:Emanuel Leberecht von Anhalt-Köthen (1671 - 1704).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|20 May 1671<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Son of [[Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Emmanuel]] and [[Anna Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]</small>
|align="center"|20 May 1671 – 30 May 1704||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]||''[[Gisela Agnes of Rath]]''<br/>30 September 1692<br>[[Nienburg, Saxony-Anhalt|Nienburg]]<br/><small>(morganatic)</small><br>ten children
|align="center"|30 May 1704<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 33</small>
|- style="background:#fde"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Henriette Catherine of Nassau|Henriette Catherine of Orange-Nassau]] (1693–1698)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Leopold I]]||[[File:1676 Leopold-2.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|3 July 1676<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|John George II]] and [[Henriette Catherine of Nassau|Henriette Catherine of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|align="center"|7 August 1693 – 7 April 1747||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||''[[Anna Louise Föhse]]''<br/>8 September 1698<br>[[Dessau]]<br/><small>(morganatic)</small><br>ten children
|align="center"|7 April 1747<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 70</small>
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Gisela Agnes of Rath]] (1704–1715)''</small>
|rowspan="2"| With no male heirs, he was succeeded by his brother.
|-style="background:#CCCCFF"
|[[Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Leopold]]||[[File:Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen (1694 - 1728).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|29 November 1694<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Second son of [[Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Emmanuel Lebrecht]] and [[Gisela Agnes of Rath]]</small>
|align="center"|30 May 1704 – 19 November 1728||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]||[[Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg]]<br/>11 December 1721<br>[[Bernburg]]<br>one child<br><br>[[:bg:Шарлота Фридерика фон Насау-Зиген|Charlotte Frederike of Nassau-Siegen]]<br/> 27 June 1725<br>[[Weimar]]<br>two children
|align="center"|19 November 1728<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 33</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Charles Frederick]]||[[File:Carl Friedrich (Anhalt-Bernburg).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|13 July 1668<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>First son of [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Amadeus]] and [[Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken|Elisabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken]]</small>
|align="center"|14 February 1718 – 22 April 1721||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[:uk:Софія Альбертіна цу Сольмс-Зонненвальде|Sophie Albertine of Solms-Sonnenwalde]]<br/>25 June 1692<br>[[Bernburg]]<br/>six children<br><br>[[:de:Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüßler|Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüssler]]<br/>1 May 1715<br>[[Bernburg]]<br>two children
|align="center"|22 April 1721<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 52</small>
|rowspan="2"| Children of Victor Amadeus, divided their rule.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym|Lebrecht]]||[[File:Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym (1669-1727).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|28 June 1669<br><small>Second son of [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Amadeus]] and [[Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken|Elisabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken]]</small>
|align="center"|14 February 1718 – 17 May 1727||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Zeitz]] and [[Hoym]])</small>||[[Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg]]<br/>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg Castle]]<br>12 April 1692<br>five children<br><br>[[:nl:Everdina Jacoba Wilhelmina van Weede|Eberhardine of Weede]]<br>27 June 1702<br>[[Grave, Netherlands|Grave]]<br>six children<br/><br>''[[Sophie Sibylla of Ingersleben]]''<br><small>(18 March 1684 – 31 March 1726)</small><br>14 September 1725<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br>no children
|align="center"|17 May 1727<br>[[Bad Ems]]<br><small>aged 57</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John Augustus]]||[[File:Johann August von Anhalt-Zerbst.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|29 July 1677<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>Son of [[Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Charles William]] and [[Duchess Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels|Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels]]</small>
|align="center"|3 November 1718 – 7 November 1742||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]||[[Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg|Frederica of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]]<br/>25 May 1702<br>[[Zerbst]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|7 November 1742<br>[[Zerbst]]<br><small>aged 65</small>|| Died without issue. Zerbst was inherited by his cousins from Dornburg.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Frederick]]||[[File:Victor Fridericus.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|20 September 1700<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Charles Frederick]] and [[:uk:Софія Альбертіна цу Сольмс-Зонненвальде|Sophie Albertine of Solms-Sonnenwalde]]</small>
|align="center"|22 April 1721 – 18 May 1765||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[Louise of Anhalt-Dessau (1709–1732)|Louise of Anhalt-Dessau]]<br/>25 November 1724<br>[[Dessau]]<br/>one child<br><br>[[Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt|Sophie Albertine Fredericka of Brandenburg-Schwedt]]<br/>22 May 1733<br>[[Potsdam]]<br/>five children<br><br>''[[Konstanze Fredericka Schmidt]]''<br/>13 November 1750<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br/>one child
|align="center"|18 May 1765<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>aged 64</small>||
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Victor I Amadeus]]||[[File:Viktoramadeusanhbernschauhoym.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|7 September 1693<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym|Lebrecht]] and [[Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg]]</small>
|align="center"|17 May 1727 – 15 April 1772||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Zeitz]], [[Hoym]] and [[Schaumburg]])</small>||[[:bg:Шарлота Луиза фон Изенбург-Бирщайн|Charlotte Louise of Isenburg-Birstein]]<br/>22 November 1714<br>[[Birstein]]<br/>six children<br><br>[[Hedwig Sophie Henckel of Donnersmarck]]<br/>14 February 1740<br>[[Pölzig]]<br>six children
|align="center"|15 April 1772<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>aged 78</small>||
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Augustus Louis]]||[[File:Augustludwigkoeth.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|9 June 1697<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Third son of [[Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Emmanuel Lebrecht]] and [[Gisela Agnes of Rath]]</small>
|align="center"|19 November 1728 – 6 August 1755||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(at [[Güsten]] until 1737; at Köthen proper since 1737)</small>||''[[Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau]]''<br/>23 January 1722<br>[[Dresden]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br>two children<br><br>[[Emilie of Promnitz-Pless|Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless]]<br/>14 January 1726<br>[[Sorau]]<br>five children<br><br>[[Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless|Anna Fredericka of Promnitz-Pless]]<br/>21 November 1732<br>[[Sorau]]<br>two children
|align="center"|6 August 1755<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 58</small>
|rowspan="3"| Inheritors of Leopold, "fought" (legally) for the inheritance. Heiress of her father, Gisela Agnes claimed her allodial inheritance (possibly, while Augustus Louis, brother of the deceased Leopold, should keep the main principality. According to the [[Reichskammergericht]] final decision, she kept her father's collections, and eventually gave up her inheritance (which included the main capital, [[Köthen]], and other estates) when she married (1737), being compensated by her uncle with great sums of money that highly indebted the principality.
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[:bg:Шарлота Фридерика фон Насау-Зиген|Charlotte Frederike of Nassau-Siegen]] (1728-1734)''</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen|Gisela Agnes]]||[[File:Gisela Agnes von Anhalt-Dessau.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|21 September 1722<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Daughter of [[Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Leopold]] and [[Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg]]</small>
|align="center"|19 November 1728 – 25 May 1737||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(at [[Köthen]], [[Prosigk]] and [[Klepzig]])</small>||[[Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]]<br/>25 May 1737<br>[[Bernburg]]<br>seven children
|align="center"|20 April 1751<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 22</small>
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"| ''The property of the Principality of Köthen was reunited in 1737''
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[John Louis II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|John Louis II]]||[[File:Johann ludwig ii.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|23 June 1688<br>[[Dornburg]]<br><small>First son of [[John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg|John Louis I]] and [[Christine Eleonore of Zeutsch]]</small>
|align="center"|7 November 1742 – 5 November 1746
|rowspan="2"|[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]<br><small>(in [[Dornburg]] 1704–1742; in Zerbst proper since 1742)</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|5 November 1746<br>[[Dornburg]]<br><small>aged 58</small>
|rowspan="2"| First cousins of John Augustus I, they were Princes of Dornburg, until its ending by joining it with the inherited Principality of Zerbst. 
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Christian August]]||[[File:Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst, 1725 (Antoine Pesne).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|29 November 1690<br>[[Dornburg]]<br><small>Third son of [[John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg|John Louis I]] and [[Christine Eleonore of Zeutsch]]</small>
|align="center"|7 November 1742 – 16 March 1747||[[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]]<br/>8 November 1727<br>[[Vechelde]]<br>five children
|align="center"|16 March 1747<br>[[Dornburg]]<br><small>aged 56</small>
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"|''Dornburg reannexed to Zerbst''
|-style="background:#fde
|[[Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Leopold II Maximilian]]||[[File:Leopold II. Maximilian von Anhalt-Dessau.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|25 December 1700<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Leopold I]] and [[Anna Louise Föhse]]</small>
|align="center"|7 April 1747 – 16 December 1751||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]||[[Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen]]<br/>25 May 1737<br>[[Bernburg]]<br/>seven children
|align="center"|16 December 1751<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 50</small>||
|- style="background:#ecd"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]] (1747–1752)''</small>
|rowspan="2"| Left no descendants; after his death, his property was annexed by his cousins from Dessau.
|-style="background:#ecd"
|[[Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Frederick August]]||[[File:Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|8 August 1734<br>[[Stettin]]<br><small>Son of [[Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst|Christian August]] and [[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]]</small>
|align="center"|16 March 1747 – 3 March 1793||[[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst|Principality of Zerbst]]||[[Princess Caroline Wilhelmina Sophia of Hesse-Kassel|Caroline Wilhelmina Sophia of Hesse-Kassel]]<br/>17 November 1753<br>[[Zerbst]]<br>no children<br><br>[[Friederike Auguste Sophie of Anhalt-Bernburg]]<br/>22 May 1764<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br>no children
|align="center"|3 March 1793<br>[[Luxembourg]]<br><small>aged 58</small>
|-style="background:#ecd"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed by the [[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau]]''
|- style="background:#fde"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regency of [[Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau]] (1751–1758)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|Initially under regency, Leopold III himself also served later as regent for his cousin, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil from Anhalt-Kothen. After his death the regency in Anhalt-Kothen passed together with the principality of Anhalt-Dessau to his grandson.
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau|Leopold III Frederick Franz]]||[[File:Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|10 August 1740<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Leopold II Maximilian]] and [[Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen]]</small>
|align="center"|16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Principality of Dessau]]<br><small>(until 1807)</small><br><br>[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Duchy of Dessau]]<br><small>(from 1807)</small>||[[Margravine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt|Louise Henriette of Brandenburg-Schwedt]]<br/>25 July 1767<br>[[Charlottenburg]]<br/>two children
|align="center"|9 August 1817<br>[[Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm|Luisium Castle]]<br><small>aged 76</small>
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Charles George Lebrecht]]||[[File:Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1730-1789).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|15 August 1730<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Second son of [[Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Augustus Louis]] and [[Emilie of Promnitz-Pless|Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless]]</small>
|align="center"|6 August 1755 – 17 October 1789||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]||[[Louise Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Louise Charlotte of Holstein-Glücksburg]]<br/>26 July 1763<br>[[Glücksburg]]<br>six children
|align="center"|17 October 1789<br>[[Zemun]]<br><small>aged 59</small>
|rowspan="2"|Children of Augustus Louis, divided their inheritance. 
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless|Frederick Erdmann]]||[[File:FriedrichErdmannKöPleß.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|27 October 1731<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Third son of [[Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Augustus Louis]] and [[Emilie of Promnitz-Pless|Christine Johanna Emilie of Promnitz-Pless]]</small>
|align="center"|6 August 1755 – 12 December 1797||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(at [[Pleß|Pless]])</small>||[[Louise Ferdinande of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]<br/>13 June 1766<br>[[Wernigerode]]<br>nine children
|align="center"|12 December 1797<br>[[Pleß|Pless]]<br><small>aged 66</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Frederick Albert]]||[[File:FrederickAlbertAnhaltBernburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|15 August 1735<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Frederick]] and [[Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt|Sophie Albertine Fredericka of Brandenburg-Schwedt]]</small>
|align="center"|18 May 1765 – 9 April 1796||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]||[[Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön|Louise Albertine of Holstein-Plön]]<br/>25 November 1724<br>[[Augustenborg, Denmark|Augustenburg]]<br/>two children
|align="center"|9 April 1796<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>aged 60</small>||
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Charles Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Charles Louis]]||
|align="center"|16 May 1723<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>Third son of [[Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Victor I Amadeus]] and [[:bg:Шарлота Луиза фон Изенбург-Бирщайн|Charlotte Louise of Isenburg-Birstein]]</small>
|align="center"|15 April 1772 – 20 August 1806||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Schaumburg]] and [[Hoym]])</small>||''Benjamine Gertrude Keiser''<br><small>(1 January 1729 – 6 January 1787)</small><br>25 March 1748<br>[[Stevensweert]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br><br>[[:bg:Елеонора фон Солмс-Браунфелс|Amalia Eleonora of Solms-Braunfels]]<br/>12 December 1765<br>[[Braunfels]]<br/>five children
|align="center"|20 August 1806<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>aged 83</small>||
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen|Augustus Christian Frederick]]||
|align="center"|18 November 1769<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Son of [[Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Charles George Lebrecht]] and [[Louise Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Louise Charlotte of Holstein-Glücksburg]]</small>
|align="center"|17 October 1789 – 5 May 1812||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Principality of Köthen]]<br><small>(until 1806)</small><br><br>[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Duchy of Köthen]]<br><small>(from 1806)</small>||[[:de:Friederike von Nassau-Usingen|Frederica of Nassau-Usingen]]<br/>9 February 1792<br>[[Frankfurt-am-Main]]<br>no children
|align="center"|5 May 1812<br>[[Geuz]]<br><small>aged 42</small>|| In 1806 became Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Left no descendants, and was succeeded by his nephew.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg|Alexius Frederick Christian]]||[[File:Alexius Friedrich Christian Fürst von Anhalt-Bernburg.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|12 June 1767<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>Son of [[Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Frederick Albert]] and [[Louise Albertine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön|Louise Albertine of Holstein-Plön]]</small>
|align="center"|9 April 1796 – 24 March 1834||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(until 1803)</small><br><br>[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Duchy of Bernburg]]<br><small>(from 1803)</small>||[[Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel]]<br/>29 November 1794<br>[[Kassel]]<br><small>(annulled 1817)</small><br/>four children<br><br>''[[Dorothea Fredericka of Sonnenberg]]''<br/>11 January 1818<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br>no children<br><br>''[[Ernestine Charlotte of Sonnenberg]]''<br/>2 May 1819<br>[[Bernburg]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br/>no children
|align="center"|24 March 1834<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>aged 66</small>|| In 1803 became Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Victor II Charles]]||
|align="center"|2 November 1767<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>Son of [[Charles Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Charles Louis]] and [[:bg:Елеонора фон Солмс-Браунфелс|Amalia Eleonora of Solms-Braunfels]]</small>
|align="center"|20 August 1806 – 22 April 1812||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Schaumburg]] and [[Hoym]])</small>||[[Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg]]<br/>29 October 1793<br>[[Weilburg]]<br>four children
|align="center"|22 April 1812<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>aged 44</small>||
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Frederick]]||
|align="center"|29 November 1741<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg]]<br><small>Fifth son of [[Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Victor I Amadeus]] and [[:bg:Шарлота Луиза фон Изенбург-Бирщайн|Charlotte Louise of Isenburg-Birstein]]</small>
|align="center"|22 April – 24 December 1812||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Schaumburg]] and [[Hoym]])</small>||''Unmarried''
|align="center"|24 December 1812|| After his childless death, Hoym and Holzappel were inherited by his niece Hermine (daughter of Victor II), while Hoym merged in Bernburg again.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Hoym reannexed to Bernburg''
|- style="background:#ccf"
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center"| <small>''Regencies of [[Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau]] (1812–1817) and [[Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt]] (1817–1818)''</small>
|rowspan="2"|Nephew of Augustus Christian Frederick. Died as a minor, never ruled by his own.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen|Louis Augustus Karl]]||[[File:Ludwig-min-Herzog-von-Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|20 September 1802<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>Son of [[Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen|Louis of Anhalt-Köthen]] and [[:de:Louise von Hessen-Darmstadt|Louise Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt]]</small>
|align="center"|5 May 1812 – 18 December 1818||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Duchy of Köthen]]||[[Louise Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]]<br/>26 July 1763<br>[[Glücksburg]]<br>six children
|align="center"|18 December 1818<br>[[Leipzig]]<br><small>aged 16</small>
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Hermine]]||[[File:Hermine Palatine.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|2 December 1797<br>[[Hoym]]<br><small>Daughter of [[Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym|Victor II Charles]] and [[Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg]]</small>
|align="center"|24 December 1812 – 14 September 1817||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Principality of Bernburg]]<br><small>(in [[Schaumburg]] and [[Holzappel]])</small>||[[Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary]]<br>30 August 1815<br>[[Schaumburg Castle, Rhineland-Palatinate|Schaumburg Castle]]<br>two children
|align="center"|14 September 1817<br>[[Budapest]]<br><small>aged 19</small>||After her death her lands probably merged again in Bernburg.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|colspan="8" align="center"|''Schaumburg and Holzappel reannexed to Bernburg''
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen|Frederick Ferdinand]]||[[File:FFAnhaltK.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|25 June 1769<br>[[Pszczyna|Pless]]<br><small>Second son of [[Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless|Frederick Erdmann]] and [[Louise Ferdinande of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]</small>
|align="center"|18 December 1818 – 23 August 1830||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Duchy of Köthen]]<br><small>(in [[Pszczyna|Pless]] 1797–1818; in Köthen proper since 1818)</small>||[[Princess Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck|Maria Dorothea of Holstein-Beck]]<br/>26 July 1763<br>[[Lipowina|Lindenau bei Heiligenbeil]]<br>no children<br><br>[[:fr:Julie de Brandebourg|Julie of Brandenburg]]<br/>20 May 1816<br>[[Berlin]]<br>no children
|align="center"|23 August 1830<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 61</small>|| From the Anhalt-Pless line, cousin of his predecessor. Attempted, with no success, to reinstall [[Catholicism]] in his duchy. Left no descendants; he was succeeded by his brother.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|[[Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen|Henry]]||[[File:1778 Heinrich.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|30 July 1778<br>[[Pleß|Pless]]<br><small>Fourth son of [[Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless|Frederick Erdmann]] and [[Louise Ferdinande of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]</small>
|align="center"|23 August 1830 – 23 November 1847||[[Principality of Anhalt-Köthen|Duchy of Köthen]]||[[:es:Augusta de Reuss (línea menor) (1794-1855)|Augusta Reuss of Middle Köstritz]]<br/>18 May 1819<br>[[Trebschen]]<br>no children
|align="center"|23 November 1847<br>[[Köthen]]<br><small>aged 69</small>|| Left no descendants. His lands were inherited by Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau.
|-style="background:#ccf"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau]]''
|-style="background:#ecf"
|[[Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg|Alexander Charles]]||[[File:Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1805-1863).jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|2 March 1805<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>Son of [[Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg|Alexius Frederick Christian]] and [[Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel]]</small>
|align="center"|24 March 1834 – 19 August 1863||[[Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg|Duchy of Bernburg]]||[[Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Frederica of Holstein-Glücksburg]]<br/>30 October 1834<br>[[Gottorp]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|19 August 1863<br>[[Hoym]]<br><small>aged 58</small>|| Left no male descendants. Bernburg reverted to Anhalt-Dessau.
|-style="background:#ecf"
|colspan=8 style="text-align:center"|''Definitively annexed to the [[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau]]''
|-style="background:#fde"
||[[Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt|Leopold IV Frederick]]||[[File:Leopold IV Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|1 October 1794<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau]] and [[Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg|Amalie of Hesse-Homburg]]</small>
|align="center"|9 August 1817 – 22 May 1871||[[Principality of Anhalt-Dessau|Duchy of Dessau]]<br><small>(until 1863)</small><br><br>[[Duchy of Anhalt]]<br><small>(from 1863)</small>||[[Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau|Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia]]<br/>18 April 1818<br>[[Berlin]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|22 May 1871<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>aged 76</small>||Grandson of Leopold III. Ended the regency in Kothen after his cousin's death (1818). In 1863 he reunited Anhalt under his rule, and becomes its first duke.
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt|Frederick I]]||[[File:Friedrich I Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|29 April 1831<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt|Leopold IV Frederick]] and [[Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau|Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia]]</small>
|align="center"|22 May 1871 – 24 January 1904||[[Duchy of Anhalt]]||[[Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg|Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg]]<br/>22 April 1854<br>[[Altenburg]]<br/>six children
|align="center"|24 January 1904<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>aged 72</small>|| 
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt|Frederick II]]||[[File:Friedrich II Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|19 August 1856<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>First son of [[Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt|Frederick I]] and [[Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg|Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|24 January 1904 – 21 April 1918||[[Duchy of Anhalt]]||[[Princess Marie of Baden (1865-1939)|Marie of Baden]]<br/>2 July 1889<br>[[Karlsruhe]]<br/>no children
|align="center"|21 April 1918<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>aged 61</small>|| Left no descendants. He was succeeded by his brother.
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt|Edward]]||[[File:Eduard, Duke of Anhalt.JPG|100px]]
|align="center"|18 April 1861<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Second son of [[Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt|Frederick I]] and [[Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg|Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|21 April – 13 September 1918||[[Duchy of Anhalt]]||[[Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg|Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg]]<br/> 6 February 1895<br>[[Altenburg]]<br/><small>(annulled 26 January 1918)</small><br>six children
|align="center"|13 September 1918<br>[[Berchtesgaden]]<br><small>aged 57</small>|| 
|-style="background:#fde"
|[[Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt|Joachim Ernest]]||[[File:Joachim Ernst duke of Anhalt.jpg|100px]]
|align="center"|11 January 1901<br>[[Dessau]]<br><small>Son of [[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt|Edward]] and [[Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg|Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg]]</small>
|align="center"|13 September – 12 November 1918||[[Duchy of Anhalt]]||''[[Elisabeth Strickrodt]]''<br>3 March 1927<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(morganatic, annulled 1929)</small><br>no children<br><br>''Edda-Charlotte von Stephani-Marwitz''<br>15 October 1929<br>[[Ballenstedt]]<br><small>(morganatic)</small><br>five children
|align="center"|18 February 1947<br>[[Weimar]]<br><small>aged 46</small>|| Monarchy abolished in that year.
|}

===Heads of the House of Ascania since 1918===
*Duke Joachim Ernest II 1918–1947
*Prince [[Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt|Frederick]] 1947–1963
*Prince [[Eduard Prinz von Anhalt|Edward]] 1963–present

==Family trees==

{{Main article|de:Stammliste der Askanier}} (genealogical list of the dynasty in German)

[[File:Anhalt-lines.png|center|1000px|Lines of the House of Anhalt]]

[[File:Anhalt-Landesteilungen.JPG|center|1000px|Overall Family Tree of the House of Anhalt]]

==Armorial==
{{Main article|Coat of arms of Saxony}}

The original arms of the house of Ascania, from their ancestors the [[Duchy of Saxony|Saxon]] counts of [[Ballenstedt]], were "''[[Variation of the field#Barry, Paly, Bendy|Barry]] of ten sable and or''".

The Ascanian margrave [[Albert the Bear]] was invested with the Saxon ducal title in 1138; when he succeeded the [[House of Welf|Welf]]'s [[Henry the Lion]], who was deposed by Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick Barbarossa]]. In 1180, Albert's son [[Bernhard, Count of Anhalt]] received the remaining Saxon territories around [[Wittenberg]] and [[Lauenburg]], and the ducal title. Legend, so unlikely to be true, goes that when he rode in front of the emperor, at the occasion of his investiture, he carried a shield with his escutcheon of the Ballenstedt coat of arms (''barry sable and or''). Barbarossa took the [[Ruta graveolens|rue]] wreath he wore against the heat of the sun from his head, hanging it over Bernhard's shield and thus creating the Saxonian ''crancelin vert'' ("''[[Variation of the field#Barry, Paly, Bendy|Barry]] of ten sable and or, a crancelin vert''"). A more likely explanation is that it probably symbolized the waiver of the Lauenburg lands.<ref name="freistaatsachsen">[http://www.freistaat.sachsen.de/wappen_signet.htm Freistaat Sachsen official website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122221956/http://www.freistaat.sachsen.de/wappen_signet.htm |date=2013-01-22 }} {{in lang|de}} Accessed 2009-05-19.</ref>

From about 1260, the [[Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg]] emerged under the Ascanian duke [[Albert II, Duke of Saxony|Albert II]], who adopted the tradition of the Saxon [[stem duchy]] and was granted the Saxon [[Prince-elector|electoral dignity]], against the fierce protest of his Ascanian [[Saxe-Lauenburg]] cousins. This was confirmed by the [[Golden Bull of 1356]]. As the Ascanian [[Electorate of Saxony|Electors of Saxony]] also held the High office of an [[Arch-Marshal]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], they added the ensign ''Per fess sable and argent two swords in saltire gules'' (the swords later featuring as the trademark of the [[Meissen swords|Meissen]] china factory) to their coat of arms. When the line became extinct in 1422, the arms and electoral dignity were adopted by the [[House of Wettin|Wettin]] by margrave [[Frederick I, Elector of Saxony|Frederick IV of Meissen]] as it had become synonymous with the Saxon ducal title.

When upon [[German reunification]] the Free State of Saxony was re-established, the coat of arms was formally confirmed in 1991.
<ref>[https://www.fotw.info/FLAGS/de-sn_lx.html Flag Legislation (Saxony, Germany)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122102236/https://www.fotw.info/flags/de-sn_lx.html |date=2008-11-22}} :{{Blockquote|
The [[Landtag of Saxony]] state parliament has passed on 25 October 1991 the following law:

§ 1
(1) The lesser coat-of-arms of the Free State of Saxony shows an escutcheon bendy of nine pieces black and gold, a green rue-crown bendwise.
(2) A greater coat-of-arms of the Free State of Saxony can be determined by a special law.

§ 2
For the rendering of the coat-of-arms the patterns, which are attached to this law as appendix, are authoritative. The coloured patterns are deposited in the Main Public Record Office of Saxony.

§ 3
The regulations necessary for the implementation of this law are issued by the State Government. It can pass on this authority.

§ 4
This law comes into force the day after its proclamation.

The preceding law is executed herewith and is to be proclaimed.|Prof. Dr. [[Kurt Biedenkopf]] (Minister President), [[Steffen Heitmann]] (State Minister of Justice)|Law relating to the coat-of-arms of the Free State of Saxony of 18 November 1991, (Saxon Law and Official Gazette 1991, p. 383-385), Dresden, 18 November 1991. }}</ref>

<gallery class="center">
File:Arms of the house of Ascania (ancient).svg|Original Arms of counts of Ballenstedt 
File:Arms of Heinrich I, Prince of Anhalt.svg|Arms of Ascania impaled with the Mark of Brandenburg
File:Arms of the house of Anhalt (13th century).svg|Arms of Ascania impaled with the Mark of Brandenburg
</gallery>

<gallery class="center">
File:HRE Arch-Marshal Arms.svg|Arms of the Arch-Marshal/[[prince elector]] of the Saxons of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]
File:Blason Jean-Georges IV de Saxe.svg|Arms of the Elector/Duke of Saxony ([[Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg|Saxe-Wittenburg]])
</gallery>

<gallery class="center">
File:Blason Principauté d'Anhalt (XVe siècle).svg|Principality of Anhalt in the 15th century
File:Blason Principautés d'Anhalt (XVIIe siècle).svg|Principalities of Anhalt in the 17th century
File:Blason Principauté d'Anhalt-Köthen (XVIIIe siècle).svg|Principality of Anhalt-Köthen in the 18th century
File:Blason Principauté d'Anhalt-Zerbst (XVIIIe siècle).svg|Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst in the 19th century
File:Shield of the Duchy of Anhalt.svg|Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Anhalt
File:Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Anhalt.svg|Achievement of the Duchy of Anhalt
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The chivalric order was the '''[[Order of Albert the Bear|House Order of Albert the Bear]]''' (German: ''Hausorden Albrechts des Bären'' or ''Der Herzoglich Anhaltische Hausorden Albrechts des Bären'') which was founded in 1836 as a joint [[House Order]] by three dukes of [[Anhalt]] from separate branches of the family: [[Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen]], [[Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt|Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau]], and [[Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg]].

The namesake of the order, [[Albert the Bear]], was the first [[Margrave of Brandenburg]] from the House of Ascania. The origin of his nickname "the Bear" is unknown.

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File:Order of Albert the Bear.svg|Collar of the Order of Albert the Bear
File:Зірка ордену Альбрехта Ведмедя.JPG|Star of the Order of Albert the Bear
File:Huisorde van Albrecht de Beer.jpg|House Order of Albert the Bear
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==List of states ruled by the House of Ascania==
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File:Sächsische-Herzogtümer 1235.png|Saxony in 1180 with the Ascanian duchies in Saxony around 1235 (green). The former stem Duchy of Saxony is in gold with the official electorate duchy of [[Saxe-Wittenberg]] in green in the South East. Also shown is [[Saxe-Lauenburg]] in North West and the Welf Duchies of [[Brunswick-Luneburg]] in orange.
File:Herzogtum Sachsen Lauenburg 1400.PNG|The Duchy of [[Saxe-Lauenburg]] in 1400
File:Mark Lausitz, Karte Anno 1200.jpg|Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg (dark green, centred on the town of Wittenberg)
FIle:Karte Mark Brandenburg 1320.png|Brandenburg in 1320 under the Ascanians
File:Herzogtum anhalt 1863-1918.svg|The Duchy of Anhalt, bordered by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] und [[Duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg]]
File:TeilfürstentümerAnhalt1789.png|Anhalt Principalities in 1789: Anhalt-Bernburg (AB), Anhalt-Köthen (AK), Anhalt-Dessau (AD) and Anhalt-Zerbst (AZ); on the rightside of the map: the [[Electorate of Brandenburg]] (blue) und [[Electorate of Saxony]] (orange)
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* County, Principality, and Duchy of [[Principality of Anhalt|Anhalt]]: c. 1100–1918
* [[Duchy of Saxony|Duchy]] and [[Electorate of Saxony]]: 1112, 1139–1142, 1180–1422
* County of [[Weimar-Orlamünde]]: 1112–1486
* [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]: 1157–1320
* [[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg]]: 1269–1689
* [[Principality of Lüneburg]]: 1369–1388
* Principality and Duchy of [[Anhalt-Bernburg]]: 1252–1468 and 1603–1863
* [[Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst]]: 1252–1396 and 1544–1796
* [[Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben]]: 1252–1315
* Principality and Duchy of [[Anhalt-Köthen]]: 1396–1561 and 1603–1847
* Principality and Duchy of [[Anhalt-Dessau]] 1396–1561 and 1603–1863
* [[Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau]] 1544–1553 and 1603–1665
* Principality of [[Anhalt-Harzgerode]] 1635–1709
* Principality of Anhalt-Mühlingen: 1667–1714
* [[Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg]]: 1667–1742
* Lordship of Jever: 1667–1796
* Principality of [[Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym]]: 1718–1812
* [[Russian Empire]]: 1762–1796

==References==
* [http://susi.e-technik.uni-ulm.de:8080/Meyers2/seite/werk/brockhaus/band/50/seite/0992/brockhaus_b50_s0992.html ''Askanien'', Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070924064505/http://susi.e-technik.uni-ulm.de:8080/Meyers2/seite/werk/brockhaus/band/50/seite/0992/brockhaus_b50_s0992.html |date=2007-09-24 }}
* Trillmich, Werner, ''Kaiser Konrad II. und seine Zeit'', Bonn, 1991

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==External links==
{{Commons category|House of Ascania}}
*[https://houseofascania.com/index.html House of Ascania] – official website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171110120605/http://www.europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-ascania/ European Heraldry page]
*{{cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ascania/ascan1.html |title= GENEALOGY.EU: House of Ascania |publisher= Genealogy.EU}} (first page of a series)
*[http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/continent/bb/brandenburg1.php#top Stirnet: Brandenburg1] {{subscription required}} (genealogy of the Houses of Ascania and Brandenburg, including the most likely ancestry of the 11th-century House of Ascania)
*[http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/ancient/ae/ascania1.php#top Stirnet: Ascania1] {{subscription required}} (an alternate possible ancestry of the 11th-century House of Ascania)

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