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Über die ältere und edlere Herkunft der Wettiner in Sachsen
Georg Spalatins Invektive von 1541 gegen Herzog Heinrich den Jüngeren von Braunschweig
Abstract Georg Spalatin’s writing “Chronica vnd Herkomen der Churfuerst vnd Fuersten des loblichen Haus zu Sachssen ...” against the Guelphs is a humanistic invective from the princely-court milieu commissioned by Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony. Printed in Wittenberg in 1541 and accompanied by numerous source documents, the text argued for the superiority of the Wettins over the Guelphs due to their ancient lineage. The invective between the princely houses reached a certain journalistic climax in that year and was continued for years and decades, albeit in a weakened form. Basically, this public dispute, which was also carried out with the help of invective, was about an existing older dispute between the princes of Saxe-Lauenburg and the Guelph Brunswickers about the transfer of the Saxon electoral status to the Wettins in 1423, and thus about their hegemonic position in the imperial structure.
