Gregory Brown
513 Agnes Arnold Hall
Department of Philosophy
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-3004
Principality of Brunswick
Principality of Lüneburg

The Welfs
and the Houses of
Brunswick and Lüneburg

A Family History

Ruthard

(d. ca. 790)
Count in Argenau
verticle leg
Welf

(d. ca. 825)
Count in Schussen
4leg
Judith
(d. ca. 843)
married (819)
Emperor Ludwig I.
"The Pious"
Hemma

(d. ca. 876)
married
King Ludwig II.
Konrad the Elder

(d. ca. 863)
Count in Schussengau
Rudolf

(d. ca. 866)
Count and Lay Abbot
in Franconia
3 leg
Konrad the Younger

(d. before 878)
Founder of the
Burgundian Welfs
Welf I.
(d. ca. 876)
Count in Argenau
Founder of the
Swabian (south German) Welfs
Two further sons

Rudolf (d. ?)
Hugo Abbas (d. ca. 886)
verticle leg
Eticho

(d. ca. 910)
Count in Ammergau
verticle leg
Heinrich

(d. ca. 934)
Count in Altdorf (Weingarten)
1 right leg
? Rudolf I. ?

(d. ?)
Saint Konrad

(d. ca. 975)
Bishop of Konstanz
verticle leg
Rudolf II.

(d. ca. 992)
Count in Altdorf
(Weingarten)
verticle leg
Welf II.

(d. 1030)
Count in Lechrain
1 leg left
Welf III.

(d. 1055)
Duke of Kärnten
Male Welfs die out.
Kunigunde (Cuniza)
(d. ca. 1055)
Married. Albert Azzo II. of Este
(c. 997-c. 1097), Margrave of Milan. Son Welf IV. carried on the male line of the Welf House.
verticle leg
Welf IV.
(d. ca. 1101)
Duke of Bavaria
Founder of the
"Younger House of Welf"
1 leg left
Welf V.

(1073-1120)
Duke of Bavaria
Heinrich the Black

(1075-1126)
Duke of Bavaria
4 leg
Four further children
Konrad (d. ca. 1126)
Sophie (d. before 1147)
Mathilde (d. ca. 1183)
Wulfhild (d. after 1160)
Heinrich the Proud

(1102-1139)
Duke of Bavaria and Saxony
Welf VI.

(1115-1191)
Margrave of Tuszien
Duke of Spoleto
Judith
(d. ca. 1130-1131)
married
Friedrich von Staufen
Duke of Swabia
verticle leg
Heinrich the Lion

(1129/31-1195)
Duke of Bavaria and Saxony
verticle leg
Friedrich I.

Barbarossa
(1122-1190)
King and Emperor
4 leg
Heinrich

(d. 1227)
Count Palatine of the Rhine
Otto IV.

(1177-1218)
German Emperor from 1209
Wilhelm

(1184-1213)
(of Lüneburg)
Four further children
Gertrude (d. ca. 1196)
Richenza (d. ca. 1208)
Lothar (d. ca. 1190)
Mathilde (d. ca. 1219)
verticle leg
Otto "The Child"

(1204-1252)
From 1235, first duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg
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1legright
Albrecht I.
(1236-1279)
Inheritance divisiom 1267
Founder of the
Old House of Brunswick
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Johann
(1242-1277)
Inherited Lüneburg by the inheritance division 1267
Founder of the
Old House of Lüneburg
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3leg
Heinrich "The Wondrous"
(1267-1322)
Inherited Grubenhagen
Founder of the
Grubenhagen Line
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Albrecht II. "The Fat"
(1268-1318)
Inherited Göttingen and Brunswick
Founder of the
Brunswick - Göttingen Line
Wilhelm

(1270-1292)
Inherited Brunswick
3leg
Otto "The Mild"

(1292-1344)
Magnus I. "The Pious"

(1304-1369)
Inherited Brunswick
verticle leg
Ernst

(1305-1367)
Inherited Göttingen
Magnus II.

(1324-1373)
verticle leg
Otto "The Quarrelsome"

(ca. 1340-1394)
Duke of Brunswick - Göttingen
legright
Bernhard I.
(d. ca. 1434)
Inherited Lüneburg
Founder of the
Middle House of Lüneburg
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Heinrich "The Mild"
(d. ca. 1416)
Inherited Brunswick
Founder of the
Middle House of Brunswick
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verticle leg
Friedrich "The Pious"

(d. 1478)
verticle leg
Otto "The Victorious"

(1439-1471)
verticle leg
3leg
Otto

(1495-1549)
Inherited Harburg
Ernst "The Confessor"

(1497-1546)
Franz

(1508-1549)
Duke of Gifhorn
3leg
Heinrich
(1533-1598)
Inherited Dannenberg
Founder of the
New House of Brunswick
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Two further sons
Five further daughters
3leg
Six further sons
Ernst (1564-1611)
Christian (1566-1633)
August (1568-1636)
Friedrich (1571-1648)
Magnus (1577-1632)
Johannes (died 1628)
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Georg
(1582-1641)
Inherited Calenberg - Göttingen
Founder of the
New House of Lüneburg



Eight further daughters