[1] He was the only Welf to become emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1168 he married Matilda (1156–1189), the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and sister of Richard I of England, gaining ever more influence. In 1070, Welf IV became duke of Bavaria. The first member was Welf I, Duke of Bavaria; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf III, Duke of Carinthia and Verona, the last male Welf of the Elder House, died in 1055. Henry made his peace with the Hohenstaufen Emperor in 1185, and returned to his much diminished lands around Brunswick without recovering his two duchies. Dispossessed of his duchies after the Battle of Legnano in 1176 by Emperor Frederick I and the other princes of the German Empire eager to claim parts of his vast territories, he was exiled to the court of his father-in-law Henry II in Normandy in 1180, but returned to Germany three years later. The individual subordinate principalities continued to exist until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. In 1635 it was given to George, younger brother of Prince Ernest II of Lüneburg, who chose Hanover as his residence.
Colloquially the Electorate was known as the Electorate of Hanover.
In 1432 the estates gained by the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel between the Deister and Leine split away as the Principality of Calenberg. Media in category "House of Welf" The following 61 files are in this category, out of 61 total. Dispossessed of his duchies after the Battle of Legnano in 1176 by Emperor Frederick I and the other princes of the German Empire eager to claim parts of his vast territories, he was exiled to the court of his father-in-law Henry II in Normandy in 1180, but returned to Germany three years later.
Henry's brother Welf VI (1115–1191), Margrave of Tuscany, later left his Swabian territories around Ravensburg, the original possessions of the Elder House of Welf, to his nephew Emperor Frederick I and thus to the House of Hohenstaufen. His wife Wulfhild was the heiress of the house of Billung, possessing the territory around Lüneburg in Lower Saxony. House of Welf Princes of Lüneburg. In 1168 he married Matilda (1156–1189), the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and sister of Richard I of England, gaining ever more influence. Colloquially the Electorate was known as the Electorate of Hanover. This line became extinct in 1884. The first member was Welf IV; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf III, Duke of Carinthia and Verona, the last male Welf of the Elder House, died in 1055. Kings of the Romans & Holy Roman Emperors; Otto IV of Welf Holy Roman Emperor 1209–1215 King of the Romans 1198–1209. Since the Welf dynasty sided with the Pope in this controversy, partisans of the Pope came to be known in Italy as Guelphs (Guelfi). All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. His first cousin, Emperor Frederick I of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, tried to get along with him, but when Henry refused to assist him once more in an Italian war campaign, conflict became inevitable. His first cousin, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, tried to get along with him, but when Henry refused to assist him once more in an Italian war campaign, conflict became inevitable.
All members of the House of Welf, male or female, bore the title Duke/Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg in addition to the style of the subordinate principality. 's-Hertogenbosch, vroedschapspenning op Lodewijk Willem Ernst, hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbuttel, sinds 25 jaar gouverneur van 's-Hertogenbosch, NG-VG-5-72.jpg 2,500 × 1,241; 1.6 MB
Frederica's brother Prince George William of Hanover married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1070, Welf IV became duke of Bavaria.
The original house of Welf descended from one Gf Welf, and ended in 1055, whereupon the heiress of the house married Azzo II d'Este, an Italian lord. Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria from 1120–1126, was the first of the three dukes of the Welf dynasty called Henry. In 1495 it was expanded around Göttingen and in 1584 went back to the Wolfenbüttel Line. From their marriage descended Dukes of Bavaria and Saxony, and the later Dukes of Braunschweig and Kings of Hanover and Great Britain. The next duke of the Welf dynasty Henry the Lion recovered his father's two duchies, Saxony in 1142, Bavaria in 1156 and thus ruled vast parts of Germany. Religion-driven politics brought about Ernest Augustus' wife Sophia of Hanover being in the line of succession to the British crown by the Settlement Act of 1701, written to ensure a Protestant succession to the thrones of Scotland and England at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment ran high in much of Northern Europe and Great Britain. Her husband Henry the Proud became then the favoured candidate in the imperial election against Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen. The House of Welf is the older branch of the House of Este, a dynasty whose earliest known members lived in Lombardy in the late 9th/early 10th century, sometimes called Welf-Este. Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, from 1120–1126, was the first of the three dukes of the Welf dynasty called Henry. Coat of arms of the kingdom of Hanover 1837. The Welfs went into exile at Gmunden, Austria, where they built Cumberland Castle. Welfs: see Guelphs Guelphs, European dynasty tracing its descent from the Swabian count Guelph or Welf (9th cent. 1707 d. 1751). In 1635 it was given to George, younger brother of Prince Ernest II of Lüneburg, who chose Hanover as his residence. Coat of Arms of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1708). The last member sitting on a European throne was Frederica of Hanover, Queen of Greece († 1981), mother of Queen Sofia of Spain and King Constantine II of Greece. With Ivan VI of Russia the Brunswick line even had a short intermezzo on the Russian imperial throne in 1740.
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