Wilhelm (Welf) von Braunschweig (abt. 1270 - 1292)

Ancestors

Died 30 Sep 1292 at about age 22 in Braunschweig, Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Wilhelm Welf was a member of the aristocracy in Germany.

Wilhelm von Braunschweig (of dynasty Welf) was possibly born in 1270, the son of Albrecht I, Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg and his second wife, Alessina di Monferrato^[1]

On the death of his father 15 August 1279^[1] he succeeded with his elder brothers, Heinrich I and Albrecht II as Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg in Braunschweig.^[1] but in 1291 they dividied the territory, Wilhelm succeeding to Wolfenbüttel.^[1]

He died 30 September 1292 at Braunschweig, without issue, and is buried in Cathedral (Dom) there.^[1]

Wilhelm had married probably in 1290, Elisabeth 'die Mittlere' von Hessen, daughter of Heinrich I, 'das Kind', Landgraf von Hessen and his second wife Mechthild von Kleve.^[2][3]

She married secondly circa 1294, Gerhard IV, Herr von Eppstein.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Schwennicke, Detlev. Europäische Stammtafeln, neue folge, Band I.1. Die fränkischen Könige und die Könige und Kaiser, Stammesherzoge, Kurfürsten, Markgrafen und Herzoge des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation, Frankfurt Am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. Tafel 19.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Knetsch, Carl, Das Haus Brabant: Genealogie der Herzog von Brabant und der Landgrafen von Hessen, Vol. 1-Vom 9 Jahrhundert bis zu Philipp dem Grossmütigen; Darmstadt: Historischer Verein für das Grossherzogtum Hessen, 1917. p. 47. Digital image, Philipps-Universität Marburg https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/eb/2015/0060/: accessed 13 July 2019.
3. ↑ Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europäische Stammtafeln, neue folge, Band I.2. - Premysliden, Askanier, Herzoge von Lothringen, die Häuser Hessen, Württemberg und Zähringen. Frankfurt Am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1999. Tafel 239.