Sidonie of Saxony
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Sidonie of Saxony was a princess of the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Princess of Calenberg-Göttingen.
Oil painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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