House of Welf Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg After 1582. The first member was Welf I, Duke of Bavaria; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf III, Duke of Carinthia and Verona, the last male Welf of the Elder House, died in 1055. The next duke of the Welf dynasty Henry the Lion recovered his father's two duchies, Saxony in 1142, Bavaria in 1156 and thus ruled vast parts of Germany. Henry the Lion's son Otto of Brunswick was elected King of the Romans and crowned Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV after years of further conflicts with the Hohenstaufen emperors. 1707 d. 1751). In 1635 it was given to George, younger brother of Prince Ernest II of Lüneburg, who chose Hanover as his residence. House of Welf Princes of Lüneburg. Henry the Lion recovered his father's two duchies, Saxony in 1142, Bavaria in 1156 and thus ruled vast parts of Germany.
Kings of the Romans & Holy Roman Emperors; Otto IV of Welf Holy Roman Emperor 1209–1215 King of the Romans 1198–1209. But Henry lost the election, as the other princes feared his power and temperament, and was dispossessed of his duchies by Conrad III. In 1814 it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Hanover. The first member was Welf IV; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf III, Duke of Carinthia and Verona, the last male Welf of the Elder House, died in 1055. Their son, Henry the Proud was the son-in-law and heir of Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor and became also duke of Saxony on Lothair's death.
[2] He was the only Welf to become Holy Roman Emperor. The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph[1]) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. Henry died at Brunswick in 1195.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Kingdom was ruled as personal union by the British crown from its creation under George III of the United Kingdom, the last elector of Hanover until the death of William IV in 1837.
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Clique GAUCHE sur un niveau de difficulté et sur SKIP TUTORIAL pour débuter la partie. Religion-driven politics placed Ernest Augustus's wife Sophia of the Palatinate in the line of succession to the British crown by the Act of Settlement 1701, written to ensure a Protestant succession to the thrones of Scotland and England at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment ran high in much of Northern Europe and Great Britain. At that point, the crown of Hanover went to William's younger brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale under the Salic law requiring the next male heir to inherit, whereas the British throne was inherited by an elder brother's only daughter, Queen Victoria. In 1432 the estates gained by the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel between the Deister and Leine split away as the Principality of Calenberg. House of Welf Princes of Brunswick. 's-Hertogenbosch, vroedschapspenning op Lodewijk Willem Ernst, hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbuttel, sinds 25 jaar gouverneur van 's-Hertogenbosch, NG-VG-5-72.jpg 2,500 × 1,241; 1.6 MB Welf IV was the son of Welf III's sister Kunigunde of Altdorf and her husband Albert Azzo II of Este, Margrave of Milan. The Kingdom of Hanover was lost in 1866 by Ernest Augustus' son George V of Hanover, Austria's ally during the Austro-Prussian War, when it was annexed by Prussia after Austria's defeat, and became the Prussian province of Hanover.
Since the Welf dynasty sided with the Pope in this controversy, partisans of the Pope came to be known in Italy as Guelphs (Guelfi). Henry's son Otto of Brunswick was elected King of the Romans and crowned Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV after years of further conflicts with the Hohenstaufen emperors. With Ivan VI of Russia the Brunswick line even had a short intermezzo on the Russian imperial throne in 1740. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. While the Elder House became extinct in the male line with the death of Duke Welf of Carinthia in 1055, his sister Kunigundemar… But Sophia died shortly before her first cousin once removed, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, the last sovereign of the House of Stuart and Sophia's son George I succeeded queen Anne and formed a personal union from 1714 between the British crown and the Electorate of Hanover, which lasted until well after the end of the Napoleonic wars more than a century later, through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and the rise of a new successor kingdom.