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With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the title of Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ceased to exist. However, its successor states continued. Frederick William the Black Duke
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- West Low German
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Seventeen years later, in 1665, Christian Louis himself died childless, and George William inherited Luneburg as well. He then gave Calenberg to his next brother, John Frederick . The renunciation of claim to Luneburg had in fact happened seven years previously, in 1658.
- 26 January 1624, Herzberg am Harz, Germany
- Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse
- 28 August 1705 (aged 81), Wienhausen, Germany
Dec 22, 2021 · George I was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 until his death in 1727, and of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (also known as Hanover, after its capital), in present-day northern Germany, from 1698 until his death.
Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Bevern (25 September 1718, Wolfenbüttel – 12 May 1788, Eisenach) was a field-marshal in the armies of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, the elected Duke of Courland (1741). From 13 November 1750 to 1766 he was the Captain-General of the Netherlands, where he was known as the Duke of Brunswick ...
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- 1788 (aged 69), Eisenach
- 1718, Wolfenbüttel
The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, or more properly the Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was a historical duchy that existed from the late Middle Ages to the Late Modern era within the Holy Roman Empire, until the year of its dissolution. The duchy was located in what is now northwestern Germany.
The Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg driven from the country. Similarly, the notorious Karl II, the only German duke to be deposed in the wake of the July Revolution of 1830, is represented by a group of documents from the 1830s per-taining to his exile and his legal rights as a deposed duke. Another interesting group of pamphlets stems from Anton Ul-
The Duchy of Brunswick was a historical German state. Its capital was the city of Brunswick . It was established as the successor state of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the course of the 19th-century history of Germany, the duchy was part of the German Confederation, the North German Confederation and from 1871 the German Empire. It was ...
