Augustus II of Brunswick
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Augustus II, called the Younger, a member of the House of Welf was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635, he received the Principality of Wolfenbüttel which h
portrait of Anselm van Hulle
Augustus in his library, engraving by Conrad Buno, about 1650
Statue of Duke Augustus on the Wolfenbüttel market square
August von Brunswick-Lüneburg, engraving after Anselm van Hulle (1717)
Ferdinand Albert I, 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 o
Augustus II of Brunswick
…and in 1635 Augustus married Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, daughter of Duke John Albert II of Mecklenburg. They had two surviving children: Ferdinand Albert I (1636-1687), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, married in 1667 Christine of Hesse-Eschwege (1649-1702) Marie Elisabeth (1638-1687), married firstly, in 1663…
Ferdinand Albert of Brunswick