Brunswick Lion
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The Brunswick Lion is a medieval sculpture, created in bronze between 1164 and 1176, and the best-known landmark in the German city of Brunswick. The Brunswick Lion was originally located on the Burgp
Braunschweiger Löwe, original in the Dankwarderode Castle Braunschweig, Germany DSC04562
A replica of the Brunswick Lion now stands outside Brunswick Cathedral
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lion in front of Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University
Goslar: One of the two replica lions from 1900 in front of the Imperial Palace of Goslar
Henry the Lion
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Henry the Lion, also known as Henry III, Duke of Saxony and Henry XII, Duke of Bavaria, was a member of the Welf dynasty.
Brunswick Lion
…1166" as the year of origin. Nevertheless, according to recent research, the monument was created between 1164 and 1176, at the time when the Welf duke Henry the Lion (1129/31–1195), ruler of both Saxony and Bavaria, took his residence at Braunschweig. Newly-married with the English princess Matilda, he had Dankwarderode…
Depiction in the Gospels of Henry the Lion
Contemporary depiction of Henry the Lion from the Historia Welforum
Henry's duchies Saxony and Bavaria
The now-secularised St Peter's Church at Petersberg Citadel, Erfurt, where Henry the Lion submitted to Barbarossa in 1181