Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry I of Mild, Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( * 1355, † October 14, 1416 ) from the Guelph dynasty, was from 1400 to 1409 Duke of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel and of 1388 until his death in 1416 the Prince of Lüneburg. He was a son of Magnus II

Life

Duke Henry I of Brunswick and Lüneburg, " mildness ", was the founder of the Mid Brunswick line and led by his contemporaries nicknamed " King of the heath ". He ruled in Lüneburg from 1388 to 1400, then in Brunswick and Lüneburg with his brother Bernhard jointly to 1409, then in Lüneburg alone until his death on 14 October 1416. Unlike his father, the Guelph Duke was observe strictly the public peace to preserve, to deliver justice and equity and to protect peaceful work before each act of violence. In the course of a trip he took a horse's halter on head and let him accompany the bailiff of Celle so the nearest tree hanged because he had a farmer removed his coat. Here About Heinrich Bunting first reported in the second part of his Braunschweigisch - Lüneburg Chronicle (1620 ).

Margaret of Hesse, mother or stepmother of the Brunswick princes retained, as a widow Celle as a widow seat. That you were respected these rights in 1428, but her father, the Landgrave of Hesse, provided in the partition treaty, which he had mediates between the Welf. By deed dated 27 February 1443 Dukes Otto and Friedrich joined with her ​​sister Margarete an agreement.

Progeny

Henry was with Sophie of Pomerania ( around 1370-1406 ), daughter of Wartislaw VI. , Duke of Pomerania, married. Their common children were:

  • Wilhelm I (1392-1482)
  • Catherine (1395-1442) ∞ Elector Frederick I of Saxony (1370-1428)

Then Heinrich married on January 30, 1409 Margarethe of Hesse ( 1389-1446 ), a daughter of the Landgrave Hermann II and his second wife, Margarethe von Hohenzollern. With her he had only one son:

  • Henry the Peaceable (1411-1473) ∞ under the October 12, 1435 the 12 -year-old Helene ( 1423-1471 ) from the house of the rising Dukes of Kleve on the Lower Rhine. Heinrich left of this marriage only daughter Margaret, born in 1451, whom he had married in 1469 to Count Wilhelm von Henneberg.

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Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Duke Magni son, reigned 16 years, died ao. Christ in 1416, is buried at Brunswick.

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