Henry III, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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Henry III (1533 – 19 January 1598), a member of the
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, was
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of Royal family, royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobi ...
and ruling
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from 1559 until 1569, jointly with his brother William the Younger. From 1569, he ruled over the Lordship of Dannenberg until his death. Henry was the second surviving son of Duke Ernest I of Brunswick-Lüneburg and assumed the rule in the
Principality of Lüneburg The Principality of Lüneburg (later also referred to as Celle) was a territorial division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire, immediately subordinate to the emperor. It existed from 1269 until 1705 and its territory ...
upon the early death of his elder brother Francis Otto in 1559. He and his younger brother William fell out with each other in 1569, when Henry married the
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princess Ursula of
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(1545–1620), daughter of Duke Francis I, and demanded the partition of the Lüneburg lands. He eventually waived his claims to the Lüneburg principality and received Dannenberg as a
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as well as an annual payment in compensation. He also ensured that his descendants were entitled to inherit the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel estates upon the extinction of the line; therefore, his youngest son
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could assume the rule in
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in 1635. Henry died in Dannenberg.


Marriage and children who reached adulthood

In 1569 Henry married Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg (*1545 – 22 October 1620*, Schernebeck), daughter of
Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510 – 19 March 1581, Buxtehude) was the eldest child and only son of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 July 1563, Neuhaus), daughter of Duke Henry IV ...
. They had the following children: * Julius Ernest (1571–1636) * Francis (1572–1601) Provost of Strasbourg * Anne Sophie (1573–1574) * Heinrich (1574–1575) * Sybil Elizabeth (1576–1630), married Anthony II, Count of Delmenhorst * Sidonia (1577–1645) *
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(1579–1666) His agnatic progeny went extinct in 1884.


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* Princes of Lüneburg 1533 births 1598 deaths Middle House of Lüneburg New House of Brunswick {{Germany-duke-stub