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unusual facts about John II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg



Agnes of Holstein

On 22 March 1327 in Trittau, Agnes was engaged to marry Duke Eric II of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1368 or 1369).

Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia

Margaret of Thuringia (1449 – 13 July 1501), who married John II, Elector of Brandenburg, and whose direct main heirs have been Electors of Brandenburg, then Kings of Prussia, and then German Emperors.

August Engelhardt

Kabakon was a Duke of York island, close to Neu-Lauenburg, in the Bismarck Archipelago, (now Papua New Guinea) and 28 miles from Herbertshöhe (today Kokopo), where the German New Guinea imperial administration was based at that time.

Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

On his ascension Augustus moved Saxe-Lauenburg's capital from Neuhaus, whereto Francis II had moved it after the residential castle in Lauenburg upon Elbe (started in 1180–1182 by Bernhard, Count of Anhalt) had burnt down in 1616, towards Ratzeburg, where it remained since.

Berlin–Hamburg Railway

It was extended to Lüneburg by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in 1863 and 1864, which used the Lauenburg–Hohnstorf train ferry to cross the Elbe for 14 years from 15 March 1864.

Bible Historiale

Some of the most lavish 14th- and early 15th-century manuscripts are luxury copies commissioned by bibliophile magnates or royalty; John, Duke of Berry owned at least eight, with other notable patrons including Mahaut, Countess of Artois, Joan III, Countess of Burgundy, and several kings of France, including Charles V and John II, whose first copy was captured with him at the Battle of Poitiers.

Boffille de Juge

When John of Anjou, duke of Calabria, was conquered in Italy (1461) and fled to Provence, Boffille followed him.

Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania

Early in 1625 he became ruler of all West Pomerania on the death of the last Duke of Wolgast, Philipp Julius, and on the 19 February he was married to Elisabeth (24 September 1580 - 21 December 1653), fifth daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, by his first wife, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488–1563), daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 June 1563, Neuhaus upon Elbe) was a member of the house of Welf and a Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

In Ahrensbök on 28 February 1625 Christian married his cousin Eleonore Sophie (b. Sonderburg, 14 February 1603 - d. Ballenstedt, 5 January 1675), daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, by his second wife Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (sister of his father Christian I) and also by birth a princess of Denmark as a granddaughter in the male line of King Christian III.

Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg

She married Duke Francis of Brunswick-Gifhorn (1508–1549) on 29 September 1547 in the Saxe-Lauenburgian castle at Neuhaus in Darzing.

Conseil du Roi

Certain kings were unable to reduce their importance (Louis X, Philip VI, John II, Charles VI), while others were more successful (Charles V, Louis XI, Francis I).

Destruction of the Oberstift

Salentin von Isenburg and his son in law, Count Arenberg, and the Duke Frederick of Saxe-Lauenburg stood against the supporters of Gebhard Truchsess.

Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg

He was also known as Türkenlouis (Turk Louis) due to his famous efforts again Louis XIV in the field and as part of the Imperial Army.

Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg

When his brother Augustus died, Francis Henry received Wangelau and Rothenbeck (a part of today's Grande) in addition.

Elmenhorst

Elmenhorst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Eric V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Armies of both cities opened a second front and conquered Bergedorf, Riepenburg castle and the Esslingen river toll station (today's Zollenspieker Ferry) within weeks.

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

In 1575, he married Anna von Broich in Hagen im Bremischen, the daughter of a city councillor of Cologne, and died in 1585 in an equestrian accident in Vörde.

Free City of Lübeck

In the same year Eric IV, supported by his sons Eric (later reigning as Eric V) and John (later John IV), captured the pawned lands without making the agreed repayment and before Lübeck could take possession of them.

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Amongst her children was Charles Edward, last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Göran Hälsinges Gränd

When King Eric XIV's (1533–1577) was still two years old, his mother, the first consort of King Gustav Vasa Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513–1535), died unexpectedly, and as Appolonia assisted the royal family as wet nurse she was rewarded a house in the alley, later named after her son.

Hamburg Parliament

Brandes had claims due against John IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from a credit which Brandes had granted earlier.

John II, Count of Blois

In February 1372, he married Mathilde of Guelders (d. 1384), the daughter and co-heir of Duke Reginald II of Guelders, and became Lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda.

John II, Count of Oldenburg

John II of Oldenburg is also the male-line ancestor of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and thus of Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

John II, Count of Ziegenhain

The Counts of Hohenlohe, who based their claim on the fact that Albert I of Hohenlohe had married Elisabeth of Hanau, who was a granddaughter of Count Gottfried VIII of Ziegenhain via her mother, Elisabeth of Ziegenhain, who had married Lord Ulrich V of Hanau.

John II, Count of Ziegenhain (died 14 February 1450) was the second son of Count Gottfried VIII of Ziegenhain and his wife Agnes of Brunswick.

After the early death of his elder brother Engelbert III in 1401, he succeeded as Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda.

John II, Duke of Bavaria

#Ernest I of Bavaria-Munich (1373–2 July 1438, Munich).

He was the third son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.

#William III of Bavaria-Munich (1375, Munich–1435, Munich).

John II, Duke of Brittany

Marie of France

John II, Duke of Opava-Ratibor

In 1397, John II and other noble councillors accused Wenceslaus IV of neglecting his duties as King of the Romans and asked him to summon an Imperial Diet.

John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

The deed was issued on the castle at Werbellin, a village in the Schorfheide area to the west of the monastery.

John of Brunswick-Lüneburg

John II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1401), canon in Hildesheim, Einbeck and Mainz, son of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

John VI, Duke of Brittany

While captured by the English John II, Duke of Alençon had sold his feifdom of Fougères to John VI in order to raise the ransom for his release.

Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Since prince-archiepiscopal forces secured Vörde the Guard circumvented them southerly, not sparing Zeven nunnery.

Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Magnus fled to his estates in Uppland in 1574, there displaying violence, wantoness and brutality.

Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg upon Elbe, 24 May 1601 – 21 February 1660, Glücksburg); ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus Philipp of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663), son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Nuss

Nusse, a village in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Old Salt Route

Horse-drawn carts brought the salt from Lüneburg to a crossing of the Elbe river at Artlenburg (near Lauenburg) and from there, via Mölln, to Lübeck.

Ottavio Piccolomini

On 4 June 1651 he had married Maria Benigna Francisca of Saxe-Lauenburg, daughter of Duke Julius Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Pierrekin de la Coupele

His literary connexions and his floruit can be established by his song Je chant en aventure, directed at an unnamed Count of Soissons, usually identified with Jehan de Nesle, called le Bon et le Bègue, who was certainly familiar with the trouvères, for his brother and predecessor, Ralph, was one.

Principality of Lüneburg

When Duke Henry went against a gentleman's agreement with his brother William and married Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1569, he had forsake sharing the government of the principality and was compensated instead with the Amt of Dannenberg and the Klosteramt of Scharnebeck.

Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

After Rudolf I died on 12 March 1356, Rudolf II asked the imperial court in Metz on 27 December 1356 to reaffirm the rights of the Saxe-Wittenberg line of the House of Ascania, against opposing claims from the Saxe-Lauenburg line.

Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Tramm

Tramm, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Viscounty of Léon

These conflict over authority in Léon continued down to the reign of John II.

Wentorf

Wentorf bei Hamburg, in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Ziethen

Ziethen, Schleswig-Holstein, in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein


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