Ernst I. von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1497-1546)
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- Name (English)
- Ernst I. von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- Short name
- Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Year of birth
- 1497
- Year of death
- 1546
- Short Description
- "Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Ernst der Bekenner) (27 June 1497 – 11 January 1546), also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a champion of the Protestant cause during the early years of the Protestant Reformation. He was the Prince of Lüneburg and ruled the Lüneburg-Celle subdivision of the Welf family´s Brunswick-Lüneburg duchy from 1520 until his death.
He was the son of Henry I, Duke of Lüneburg, and Margarete of Saxony, the daughter of Ernest, Elector of Saxony." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.10.2020) - Entity Encoding
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