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August von Brunswick-Lüneburg, engraving after Anselm van Hulle (1717) Augustus was born at Dannenberg Castle, the seventh child of Duke Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1533–1598). His father had ruled over the Brunswick Principality of Lüneburg, jointly with his younger brother William, since 1559.
After the death of Duke George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1705, King George I inherited the state of Lüneburg, being both the benefactor of Georges William's 1658 renunciation in favour of his younger brother Ernest Augustus and the husband of the Duke's morganatic daughter, Sophie Dorothea, later known as the "Princess of Ahlden".
William of Jülich (died 1304), known as the Younger; William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (c. 1425–1503), called William the Younger; William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1535–1592) William Alexander (the younger) (c. 1602–1638), founder of the Scottish colony at Port-Royal; William Cawley (younger) (born c. 1628 ...
William the Younger (c. 1425 – 1503), succeeded his father as Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1482 and ruling Prince of Calenberg and Göttingen in 1482; sole ruler of Wolfenbüttel, Calenberg and Göttingen from 1484; ceded Wolfenbüttel to his son Henry the Younger in 1495.
He was born in Hitzacker, then the residence of his father Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579–1666) and his second wife Princess Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607–1634). The next year his father, at the age of 55, assumed the rule in the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel after his Welf cousin Duke Frederick Ulrich had died childless.
20 August 1592. ( 1592-08-20) (aged 57) Wilhelm (4 July 1535 – 20 August 1592), called William the Younger ( German: Wilhelm der Jüngere ), was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Lüneburg from 1559 until his death. Until 1569 he ruled together with his brother, Henry of Dannenberg. He was the son of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Henry V. Francis. Father. William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Mother. Elizabeth of Stolberg-Wernigerode. Henry IV (14 June 1463 – 23 June 1514), called the Elder ( German: Heinrich der Ältere ), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1491 until his death.
