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The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph [1]) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconian family from the Meuse-Moselle area was closely related to the imperial family of the Carolingians .
The Elder House of Welf (known as Rudolphins in Burgundy) [1] [2] was a Frankish noble dynasty of European rulers documented since the 9th century. Closely related to the Carolingian dynasty, it consisted of a Burgundian and a Swabian group.
Family tree of the Welfs from the Fulda manuscript of the Historia. The Historia Welforum is an anonymous Latin prose chronicle of the House of Welf written around 1170. [1] The original covers the period c. 825 –1167, but continuations bring it down to 1208.
The House of Este (UK: / ˈ ɛ s t i / EST-ee, [7] US: / ˈ ɛ s t eɪ / EST-ay, [8] [9] Italian:) is a European dynasty of North Italian origin whose members ruled parts of Italy and Germany for many centuries. The original House of Este's elder branch, which is known as the House of Welf, included dukes of Bavaria and of Brunswick.
Welf I (or Hwelf; died c. 825) is the first documented ancestor of the Elder House of Welf. He is mentioned as a count ( comes ) in the Frankish lands of Altdorf in Alamannia . He is the son of Rothard of the Argengau and grandson of Hardrad .
He was a member of the House of Welf, a prominent German noble family. George was part of a cadet branch of the family known as the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg, which held territories in what is now Lower Saxony in Germany. George was the sixth son of William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1535–1592) and Dorothea of Denmark (1546–1617).
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Burial sites of the House of Welf (1 C, 2 P) B. Dukes of Brunswick (5 P) Old House of Brunswick (2 C, 40 P) D. Duchesses of Brunswick-Lüneburg (3 C, 47 P)
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