Albertine Wettins

The Albertine branch is a German princely line of the House of Wettin. It is named after its founder, Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500). It emerged from the dynastic division between duke Albert and his older brother Ernest, Elector of Saxony (d. 1486), founder of the elder Ernestine branch. Regulated by the Treaty of Leipzig (1485), the division of domains and titles between two brothers led to the creation of separate Wettin branches and their distinctive states within the Holy Roman Empire. From 1485 to 1918, the Albertines ruled various parts of Saxony as dukes (from 1485), electors (1547), and kings (from 1806). In time, the Alberines branched further, thus creating several distinctive duchies for secondary lines, while members of the main (electoral) line also ruled as Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania (1697-1763).

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