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Ernest Augustus was a duke (from 1679) and elector (from 1692) of Hanover, father of George Louis, who became George I, king of Great Britain. The Protestant bishop of Osnabrück from 1661, Ernest Augustus succeeded his elder brother as ruler of the duchy of Lüneburg-Calenburg (which became known as
Henry's eldest son Otto (24 August 1495 – 11 August 1549), who also had been educated with his brothers at Wittenberg, succeeded as Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg; he was also the Prince of Lüneburg from 1520 to 1527 and Baron of Harburg from 1527 to 1549. Otto and Ernest appear to have ruled jointly from 1520 to 1527.
Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg (12 January 1721, Wolfenbüttel – 3 July 1792, Brunswick), was a German-Prussian field marshal (1758–1766) known for his participation in the Seven Years' War. From 1757 to 1762 he led an Anglo-German army in Western Germany which successfully repelled French attempts to occupy Hanover. The fourth son of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick ...
Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Bevern was a field-marshal in the armies of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, the elected Duke of Courland.
4 de oct. de 2019 · Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Duke Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Ernst der Bekenner) 27 June 1497, Uelzen – 11 January 1546), called the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He ruled the Lüneburg-Celle subdivision of the duchy from 1520 until his death.
After Margrave Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Schwedt was killed at Prague in 1744, Ferdinand received command of Frederick the Great's Leibgarde battalion, and at the Battle of Soor (1745) he distinguished himself greatly, especially in the assault of a steep hill, that incidentally was defended by his older brother duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Duke Julius of Brunswick, 1590 portrait. Julius married Hedwig (1540–1602), a younger daughter of Elector Joachim II Hector of Brandenburg, on 25 February 1560. They had the following children who reached adulthood: Sophie Hedwig (1561–1631), married Duke Ernest Louis of Pomerania-Wolgast; Henry Julius (1564–1613)
