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Eric II di Brunswick-Calenberg ( Dassel, 10 agosto 1528 – Pavia, 17 novembre 1584) è stato un nobile tedesco, duca di Brunswick-Calenberg dal 1540 alla sua morte. Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Ascendenza. 3 Onorificenze. 4 Note. 5 Altri progetti. Biografia. Era figlio di Eric I di Brunswick-Calenberg e di Elisabetta di Brandeburgo.
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Eric II; Ritratto del duca Eric II con il collare dell'Ordine del Toson d'oro: Duca di Brunswick e Lüneburg Principe di Calenberg; Stemma: In carica: 1540 - 1584: Predecessore: Eric I: Successore: Giulio: Nascita
- First Marriage
- Charges of Witchcraft
- Weißenfels Monastery
- Second Marriage
Eric married on 17 May 1545 Sidonie of Saxony (1518–1575), who was ten years his senior. The wedding ceremony was held in Hann. Mündenwithout the usual pomp and circumstance. Initially, they liked each other. Eric had been engaged to Agnes of Hesse. When the marriage was negotiated at the court in Kassel, however, he had met Sidonie. He liked her, ...
Sidonie was from 1564 onwards virtually under house arrest and she protested vigorously to her brother and to the Emperor, who sent councils who tried unsuccessfully to compromise with Duke Eric. In 1564 Eric fell very ill and suspected he was poisoned. Four women suspected of witchcraft were burned as witches in Neustadt am Rübenberge. In 1570 med...
From Vienna, Sidonie traveled in October 1572 to Dresden to her brother and his wife. Instead of Calenberg castle and the silver Duke Eric had withheld from her, she received, after several settlements, compensation and a pension for life. Elector Augustus gave her the Poor Claresmonastery at Weißenfels with all income and interest. Sidonie lived t...
In 1575, he married Dorothea of Lorraine (1545–1621), the daughter of Princess Christina of Denmark and Francis I, Duke of Lorraine. He disliked to live in his impoverished principality and continued to travel around with his second wife. In 1581, he bought the sumptuous Ca' Vendramin Calergiin Venice for 50,000 ducats on loan, where he hosted sump...
After Eric's death in 1540 she took over the government for their underage son, Eric II, and implemented the Reformation in the principality with the state superintendent Antonius Corvinus she had appointed. Eric II, however, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1547 even though he was raised as an Evangelical by his mother.
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