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Ferdinand Albert I (German: Ferdinand Albrecht I.; 22 May 1636 – 23 April 1687), a member of the House of Welf, was a Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After a 1667 inheritance agreement in the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, he received the secundogeniture of Brunswick-Bevern, which he ruled until his death.
From a selection two women were deemed eligible: Maria Victoria of Savoy-Carignan (a niece of Prince Eugene of Savoy) and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel (1691–1751). In the end political and genealogical considerations swung the choice in favour of the German princess from the ancient lineage of the Welfs (Guelphs).
Maximilian Julius Leopold von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Prinz von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel und nominell Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg (* 11. Oktober 1752 [1] in Wolfenbüttel; † 27. April 1785 in Frankfurt (Oder) ), war ein preußischer Generalmajor und einer der wenigen hohen Offiziere in den Armeen des späten aufgeklärten ...
Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Mother. Elisabeth Juliane of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg. Louis Rudolph ( German: Ludwig Rudolf; 22 July 1671 – 1 March 1735), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1731 until his death. Since 1707, he ruled as an ...
Father. Henry II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Mother. Maria of Württemberg. Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (16 November 1532 in Wolfenbüttel – 23 November 1595 at Herzberg Castle ), was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth. She was abbess of the secular Gandersheim Abbey and later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen by marriage.
Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (29 January 1722 – 13 January 1780) married Prince Augustus William of Prussia and had issue, including Frederick William II of Prussia. Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (13/23 January 1724 – 17 May 1802) married Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and had issue.
Según Bornstedt, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel fue por lo tanto el primer principado en el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico en acabar con el feudalismo. El receso prescribía que todas las arbitrariedades ( Willkür) en los gravámenes a los administradores, o Meier, de señoríos feudales, particularmente a la muerte de los agricultores, fueran ...
