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The Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg (German: Herzogtum Braunschweig und Lüneburg), commonly known as the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg or Brunswick-Lüneburg, was an imperial principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the territory of present day Lower Saxony.
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The territory of Wolfenbüttel had been a portion of the medieval Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg since the 1200's. It was recognized as a sovereign state by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The Congress turned Wolfenbüttel into an independent country under the name Duchy of Braunschweig. 1. The Duchy of Braunschweig remained sovereign and independent...
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First Elector of Brunswick - Lüneburg (Hanover), 1692-1698. In 1658, married Sophie (1630-1714), daughter of Friedrich V. (1596-1632) and Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662). Set Leibniz to work on a history of the House of Brunswick.
— Schools — ... Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince-Elector of Hanover and Bishop of Osnabrück primary name: Ernst August ...
Names and Titles. With the exception of the kings of Hanover, reigning members of the dynasty in all its branches were styled dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg. Hanover was proclaimed a kingdom in October 1814.
The Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg: A Commemorative Collection By Christa Sammons 1974 the Beinecke Library acquired a collection of over two hundred broadsides and pamphlets relating to the ducal family of Brunswick-Lüneburg between the reign of Duke Julius, who died in 1589, and the overthrow of Karl II in 1830. These documents
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Description. One of a set of four small portraits on copper of two of the sons of George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenburg and Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt and their wives (RCINs 401390-3). They are first recorded in the Privy Chamber at Kensington Palace in 1818, without attribution or identification, with ‘curious’ added as a remark.
