Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Lüneburg
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Place of Birth: Lüchow-Dannenberg District, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg
- Henry III (1533 – 19 January 1598), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Lüneburg from 1559 until 1569, jointly with his brother William the Younger.
- From 1569, he ruled over the Lordship of Dannenberg until his death. He was the second surviving son of Duke Ernest I of Brunswick-Lüneburg and assumed the rule in the Principality of Lüneburg 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 Ascanian princess Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg (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 paréage 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 Augustus could assume the rule in Wolfenbüttel in 1635. Henry died in Dannenberg.
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