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Willem was born in 1184. Willem von Lüneburg ... He passed away in 1213. [1]
Wilhelm was born in 1184. Wilhelm Welf ... He passed away in 1213.[2]
William of Winchester Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg b. 11 April 1184, d. 13 December 1213
William of Winchester Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg was born on 11 April 1184 at Winchester, Hampshire, England.1 He was the son of Heinrich V Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Matilda of England.1 He married Helen Valdemarsdottir, Princess of Denmark, daughter of Valdemar I 'the Great' Knutsson, King of Denmark and Sophie of Polotzk, circa July 1202.2,3 He died on 13 December 1213 at age 29. William of Winchester Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg also went by the nick-name of William 'Longsword'. He gained the title of Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg.2 Child of William of Winchester Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Helen Valdemarsdottir, Princess of Denmark Otto I Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg+4 b. c 1204, d. 9 Jun 1252 Citations [S106] Royal Genealogies Website (ROYAL92.GED), online ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/genealogy/public_html/royal/index.html. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogies Website. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 60. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families. [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 16. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession. [S16] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 113.
Wilhelm is the child of Heinrich Welf and Gertrud Supplinberg. [3]
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