Eric I, the Elder was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1495 and the first reigning prince of Calenberg-Göttingen.
Eric with his second wife Elisabeth ca. 1530
Relief No.13 in the cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I, Innsbruck. Eric saved the life of Maximilian in the Battle of Wenzenbach, Regensburg.
Duke Eric the Elder of Calenberg receives from Emperor Maximilian before the fortress of Kufstein in Tyrol a symbolic box on the ear, because he had dared to ask the emperor for the life of the vanquished. As Duke Eric had saved the emperor in 1504 at the Battle of Regensburg, the emperor granted the wish of his godson and let the occupants of the castle go free
Principality of Calenberg
Videos
The Principality of Calenberg was a dynastic division of the Welf Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg established in 1432. Calenberg was ruled by the House of Hanover from 1635 onwards; the princes received t
Schloss und Ampt Calenberg, engraving by Caspar Merian (1654)
Coat of arms of the Calenberg-Grubenhagensche Landschaft on a building in Göttingen
The remains of Calenberg Castle. Here, the battery tower at the main entrance
Calenberg Castle in 1654