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Welf

(d. ca. 825)
Count in Schussen
Konrad

(d. ca. 863)
Count in Schussengau
Konrad

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

(d. ca. 910)
Count in Ammergau
Heinrich
(d. ca. 934)
Count in Altdorf (Weingarten)
Rudolf I.

(d. ca. 940)
Saint Konrad
(d. 975)
Bishop of Constance
Rudolf II.

(d. 992)
Count in Altdorf
(Weingarten)
Welf II.
(d. 1030)
Count in Lechrain
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.
Welf IV.
(d. ca. 1101)
Duke of Bavaria
Founder of the
"Younger House of Welf"
Welf V.

(1073-1120)
Duke of Bavaria
Heinrich the Black

(1075-1126)
Duke of Bavaria
Heinrich the Proud

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

(1115-1191)
Margrave of Tuszien
Duke of Spoleto
Heinrich the Lion

(1129/31-1195)
Duke of Bavaria and Saxony
Otto IV.

(1177-1218)
German Emperor from 1209
Wilhelm

(1184-1213)
(of Lüneburg)
Otto "The Child"

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

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

(1292-1344)
Ernst

(1305-1367)
Inherited Göttingen
Magnus I. "The Pious"

(1304-1369)
Inherited Brunswick
Magnus II.

(1324-1373)
Heinrich "The Mild"
(d. ca. 1416)
Inherited Brunswick
Founder of the
Middle House of Brunswick
Bernhard I.
(d. ca. 1434)
Inherited Lüneburg
Founder of the
Middle House of Lüneburg
Friedrich "The Pious"

(d. 1478)
Otto "The Victorious"

(1439-1471)
Heinrich "The Middling"

(1468-1532)
Otto

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

(1497-1546)
Franz

(1508-1549)
Duke of Gifhorn
Georg
(1582-1641)
Inherited Calenberg - Göttingen
Founder of the
New House of Lüneburg

The Welfs
and the Houses of
Brunswick and Lüneburg

A Family History

Otto "The Stone"

(ca. 1340-1394)
Duke of Brunswick - Göttingen
Ruthard

(d. ca. 790)
Count in Argenau
Judith

(d. ca. 843)
married
emperor Ludwig the Pious
Hemma

(d. ca. 876)
married
King Ludwig II.
Rudolf

(d. ca. 866)
Count and Lay Abbot
in Franconia
Two further sons

Rudolf
Hugo Abbas (d. ca. 886)
Heinrich
(1533-1598)
Inherited Dannenberg
(The New House of Brunswick)
Wilhelm

The Younger
(1535-1592)


Two further sons
Five further daughters

Four further children
Konrad (d. ca. 1126)
Sophie (d. before 1147)
Mathilde (d. ca. 1183)
Wulfhild (d. after 1160)
Judith

(d. ca. 1130-1131)
married Friedrich von Staufen
Duke of Swabia
Friedrich I.

Barbarossa
(1122-1190)
King and Emperor
Four further children
Gertrude (d. ca. 1196)
Richenza (d. ca. 1208)
Lothar (d. ca. 1190)
Mathilde (d. ca. 1219)
Heinrich

(d. 1227)
Count Palatine of the Rhine


Eight further daughters
Six further sons
Ernst (1564-1611)
Christian (1566-1633)
August (1568-1636)
Friedrich (1571-1648)
Magnus (1577-1632)
Johannes (gest.1628)