Eric II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Eric II
Officially: Duke of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia
Colloquially: Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg or
Duke of Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg
Duchy of Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg
Reign1338 1368
PredecessorEric I
SuccessorEric IV
Born1318
Died1368
SpouseAgnes of Holstein
Issue
Detail
Agnes, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Eric IV
Jutta, Duchess of Pomerania-Wolgast
Matilda, abbess
HouseHouse of Ascania
FatherEric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
MotherElisabeth of Pomerania
ReligionRoman Catholic

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

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