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He was the only Welf to become Holy Roman Emperor. Coat-of-arms of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Henry the Lion's grandson Otto the Child became duke of a part of Saxony in 1235, the new Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and died there in 1252. The duchy was divided several times during the High Middle Ages amongst various lines of the House of ...
Coat of arms of the House of Welf-Brunswick (Braunschweig) Arms of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor Arms of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (Chronica Majora) Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218. Otto spent most of his early life in England and France.
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Coat of Arms of the House of Welf. The last Ottonian duke, Henry IV of Bavaria, was elected King of the Romans in 1002 as Henry II. At different times, the duchy was ruled by the German kings in personal union, by dependent dukes, or even by the emperor's sons, a tradition maintained by Henry's Salian successors.
Description: Coat of arms of the House of Welf (Brunswick-Lüneburg). Blazon: Per pale, I Gules two lions passant guardant Or (for Brunswick), II Or a semy of hearts Gules a lion rampant Azure (for Lunenburg).
It was left to his descendants to adopt a formal coat of arms, with two lions passant, which was derived from the arms of England, which had three such lions. Henry referred to himself in Latin as Henricus Leo... in German, Heinrich der Löwe and Heinrich Welf (Guelph). [4] Three-headed eagle arms of Reinmar von Zweter, from the Codex Manesse
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Cross from the Guelph Treasure (Bode Museum, Berlin) Reliquary of the arm of Saint Blaise (Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Dankwarderode Castle) The Guelph Treasure (German: Welfenschatz) is a collection of medieval ecclesiastical art originally housed at Brunswick Cathedral in Braunschweig, Germany.