Lüneburg-Celle

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Fürstentum Lüneburg also: Braunschweig und Lüneburg (Celle) Principality of Lunenburg also: Brunswick-Celle, Lunenburg-Celle or Brunswick and Lunenburg (Celle) State of the Holy Roman Empire ←   ← 1269 – 1705 → Coat of arms Capital Lunenburg (Lüneburg), Celle after 1370 Language(s) Low Saxon, German Religion Roman Catholic until 1527; then Lutheran Government Monarchy Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Lunenburg(-Celle)  - 1269–1277 John I  - 1369–1373 Magnus II Torquatus  - 1520–1546 Ernest I the Confessor  - 1665–1705 George William Historical era Middle Ages  - Saxo-Bavarian Duke     Henry the Lion defeated     ensued by break-up of     the Duchy of Saxony 1180/1181  - Partitioning of the     Duchy of Brunswick     and Lunenburg among     the heirs (Salic law) 1269  - Inherited by the     Prince of Calenberg     George Louis, became     King George I in 1714 August 28, 1705

Lüneburg-Celle was a dynastic division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire. It existed from 1269 until 1705. It was named after its prior capital city Lüneburg (Lunenburg), which lay as enclave within its territory, but was ruled by all Brunswick-Lüneburgian lines as a condominium until 1637.^[1] From the 14th century its capital was Celle. It is also known as Brunswick-Celle, or simply Celle.

Contents 1 History 2 Dukes of Lüneburg 3 External links 4 Further reading 5 Notes

[edit] History

Lüneburg was created when the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg was split in 1269, when Duke John forced his elder brother Duke Albert to share the duchy with him. John's last male-line descendant died in 1369, and the Lüneburg Succession War broke out between the Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg and the Wolfenbüttel line of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Lüneburg-Celle was briefly under control of the dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg, but it finally fell to Wolfenbüttel in 1388. In 1582, Duke William of Lüneburg-Celle inherited half of the County of Hoya, and in 1585, the County of Diepholz. In 1633, the Duke inherited the Principality of Grubenhagen, and in 1689, Duke George William acquired the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. From 1648 on, Calenberg was ruled by the younger brothers or nephews of the Dukes of Celle. In 1705, Celle was inherited by Duke George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg. Celle and Calenberg thereafter remained permanently united as parts of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, colloquially named after Calenberg's capital Hanover, the Electorate of Hanover.

[edit] Dukes of Lüneburg

See List of the rulers of Lüneburg

[edit] External links

• [1](German)

[edit] Further reading

• Wilhelm Havemann: Geschichte der Lande Braunschweig und Lüneburg. 3 Bände. Nachdruck. Hirschheydt, Hannover 1974/75, ISBN 3-7777-0843-7 (Originalausgabe: Verlag der Dietrich'schen Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1853-1857) (in German)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The same was true for the city Braunschweig (Brunswick), though mostly surrounded by the Brunswick-Lunenburgian Principality of Wolfenbüttel, it was no part of it. The rule as condominium provided both cities a considerable autonomy, playing off the different ducal lines against each other.

v • d • e Lower Saxon Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire Ecclesiastical Bremen1 · Halberstadt1 · Hildesheim · Lübeck · Magdeburg1 · Ratzeburg (until 1701) · Schwerin1 Secular Bremen (from 1648) · Brunswick (Blankenburg (until 1731) · Calenberg2 · Celle2 · Grubenhagen (until 1596) · Wolfenbüttel) · Hanover (from 1708) · Holstein (Glückstadt · Gottorp) · Mecklenburg (Güstrow (until 1695) · Schwerin · Strelitz (from 1701)) · Rantzau (until 1734) · Regenstein · Saxe-Lauenburg2 Cities Bremen · Goslar · Hamburg · Lübeck · Mühlhausen · Nordhausen 1 until 1648.   2 until 1705.