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George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Mother. Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt. George William ( German: Georg Wilhelm; 26 January 1624 – 28 August 1705) was the first Welf Duke of Lauenburg after its occupation in 1689. From 1648 to 1665, he was the ruler of the Principality of Calenberg as an appanage from his eldest brother, Christian Louis ...
Henry V. Francis. Father. William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Mother. Elizabeth of Stolberg-Wernigerode. Henry IV (14 June 1463 – 23 June 1514), called the Elder ( German: Heinrich der Ältere ), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1491 until his death.
Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the son of Otto V of Lüneburg and Anne of Nassau-Siegen, was born in 1468. In 1486, Henry took control of Lüneburg from his mother, who had been regent since the death of Henry's grandfather, Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Henry's reign was marked by the complications relating to the Hildesheim Prince ...
Aug 2, 2023 · Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Duke Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 27 June 1497, Uelzen – 11 January 1546, also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a champion of the protestant cause during the early years of the Protestant Reformation. He ruled the Lüneburg-Celle subdivision of the Welf family ...
Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Otto the Strict, sculpture at the Bomann-Museum in Celle. Otto II, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (about 1266 – 10 April 1330), also known as Otto the Strict ( Otto der Strenge ), [1] came from the House of Welf and was Prince of Lüneburg from 1277 to 1330.
Ernest Augustus ( German: Ernst August; 20 November 1629 – 23 January 1698), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was Prince of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of George I of Great Britain. He was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692. He was also ruler of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück from 1662 ...
Christian Louis ( German: Christian Ludwig; 25 February 1622 – 15 March 1665) was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A member of the House of Welf, from 1641 until 1648 he ruled the Principality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, and, from 1648 until his death, the Principality of Lüneburg . Christian Louis was born in Herzberg am Harz. In ...
