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Frans van Brunswijk-Lüneburg (Uelzen, 23 november 1508 - Gifhorn, 23 november 1549) was van 1536 tot 1539 samen met zijn broer Ernst I hertog van Brunswijk-Lüneburg en van 1539 tot aan zijn dood hertog van Brunswijk-Gifhorn. Hij behoorde tot het huis Welfen.
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Frans Otto van Brunswijk-Lüneburg ( 20 juni 1530 - 19 april...
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Francis was born on 23 November 1508 in Uelzen. His father, Henry the Middle (1468–1532), had planned that Francis would later become the Bishop of Hildesheim, but that proved impossible due to the worsened political situation. After his father (who had supported a losing French contender for the imperial elections) was exiled to Paris in 1521, his...
On his return, Francis showed no interest in the royal responsibilities expected of him. Moreover, the relatively modest standard of living in the little Residenz at Celle was not to his liking. By way of settlement he insisted on his own dukedomand pressed for a division of the territory. His demand for the whole eastern half of the duchy was unac...
Like his brother Ernest the Confessor, Duke Francis belonged to the alliance of Protestant princes, who petitioned the Imperial Diet in Speyer in 1529 at the so-called Protestation at Speyer. Both belonged to the Schmalkaldic League, which supported the ideas of Martin Luther. In building the castle chapel at Gifhorn Francis created the first relig...
In 1547 Duke Francis married Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg, the daughter of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg in Ratzeburg. The marriage lasted only three years before the duke died in great pain on 23 November 1549 on his 41st birthday. The cause was an infection of his foot that did not heal and even an amputationcould not save his life. He was interred ...
The town of Franzburg in the district of Vorpommern-Rügenwas named in honour of him by his son-in-law, Duke Bogislaw XIII of Pomerania.
Brüggemann, Fritz (1973). Ein Herzog namens Franz. Das abenteuerliche Leben des Reichsfürsten Herzog Franz zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, Herzog in Gifhorn. Ein Tatsachenbericht. Gifhorn 1973.
Het Hertogdom Brunswijk-Lüneburg ( Duits: Herzogtum Braunschweig-Lüneburg) was een wereldlijke landsheerlijkheid in het noorden van het Heilige Roomse Rijk. De hertogen behoorden tot de Rijksvorstenstand, een selectie groep heersers in het Heilige Roomse Rijk die hun lenen direct van de keizer ontvingen en vorstelijke rechten bezaten.
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English: Francis Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1530–1559) was the Prince of Lüneburg from 1555 to 1559. Deutsch: Franz Otto, Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg (* 20. Juni 1530; † 29. April 1559) war von 1555 bis 1559 Fürst von Lüneburg. Media in category "Francis Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1530-1559)"
Francis of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1508–1549) was the youngest son of Henry the Middle. Following a thirty-year joint reign of Brunswick-Lüneburg with his brother Ernest the Confessor, he ruled the newly founded Duchy of Gifhorn from Gifhorn Castle for over 10 years from 1539 until his death in 1549. He was given the duchy as an inheritance settlement by his brother Ernest.
