THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1235–1268

Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

The Welf duchy created in 1235 when Otto the Child, grandson of Henry the Lion, gave his allodial lands to Frederick II and received them back as an imperial duchy. Divided in 1269 into the principalities of Lüneburg and Brunswick(-Wolfenbüttel), which carried on the ducal title.

See Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg on the map in 1235

On the map
1235–1268
Capital
Brunswick

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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