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Christian de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, né le 20 septembre 1599 à Gröningen et mort le 16 juin 1626 à Wolfenbüttel, est prince de la dynastie des Welf (maison de Brunswick), fils cadet de Henri-Jules de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Christian (9 novembre 1566 – 8 novembre 1633) est duc de Brunswick-Lunebourg et prince de Lunebourg de 1611 à sa mort. Biographie. Deuxième fils du duc Guillaume « le Jeune » et de Dorothée de Danemark, il devient administrateur de la principauté épiscopale de Minden en 1599.
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Christian was born in 1599 at the Gröningen Priory near Halberstadt (in today's Saxony-Anhalt), the third son of Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564–1613) with his second wife Elizabeth (1573–1626), daughter of the late King Frederick II of Denmark. After his father's death, he was educated by his maternal uncle, King Christian IV of Denm...
In 1621, Christian was one of the few men to continue rallying behind Frederick V, who had only the year before claimed and been deposed from the throne of Bohemia following his crushing loss at the Battle of White Mountain. Frederick was still leader of the Protestant resistance rooted from the 1618 crushed Bohemian Revolution. What attracted Chri...
Christian's defeat signalled the close of the "Palatine Phase" of the Thirty Years' War, and the end of the Protestant rebellion as a whole. Three days after Stadtlohn, Frederick V signed an armistice with Ferdinand II, ending the former's resistance to what seemed as impending Catholic domination of the Holy Roman Empire. Mansfeld shortly thereaft...
"Christian-of-Brunswick." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 2 Dec. 2004Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 4, p. 677-683[permanent dead link]Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Christian of Brunswick" . Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Christian de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, né le 20 septembre 1599 à Gröningen et mort le 16 juin 1626 à Wolfenbüttel, est prince de la dynastie des Welf (maison de Brunswick), fils cadet de Henri-Jules de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Christian de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, né le 20 septembre 1599 à Gröningen et mort le 16 juin 1626 à Wolfenbüttel, est prince de la dynastie des Welf (maison de Brunswick), fils cadet de Henri-Jules de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
12 juin 2024 · Christian of Brunswick (born Sept. 20, 1599, Gröningen, Bishopric of Halberstadt [Germany]—died June 16, 1626, Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony) was a duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander, and soldier of fortune during the early part of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), who made his reputation ...
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