what all that means is that luther was not only very closely related to the dukes of saxony through his mother, he was also closely related to them through the schnbergs and his wife. they hide his wife's ancestry just as they hide his, and it is because they don't want you to ask how this excommunicated priest managed to marry this noblewoman from a line of counts. but the answer is the usual: they too were cousins, since the schnbergs were counts of saxony, linked to the sachsens for centuries.
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