Lüneburg
The Principality of Lüneburg was a Welf territory on the Lüneburg Heath. In 1337 Otto III and William II ruled jointly from the salt town of Lüneburg.
After William died without sons in 1369, Saxe-Wittenberg contested the succession. The town destroyed the ducal castle in 1371, driving the princes to Celle; the Welfs secured their inheritance at Winsen in 1388. Ernest the Confessor introduced Lutheran reform and signed the Augsburg Confession in 1530. The principality passed to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1705.
Characters
- Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Hedwig of Ravensberg
- Henry the Lion
- John, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Marie
- Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Matilda of Mecklenburg
- Matilda of Bavaria
- Otto II the Strict
- Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- William of Winchester
- Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- Henry the Proud