Henry III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
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| house = House of Guelph
| father = Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| mother = Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen
| spouse = Margaret of Sagan
| issue = Henry IV
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Henry III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (* 1416 Grubenhagen, † 20 December 1464[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mila54&id=I4277 Profile], Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 28 July 2022 (Self-Published source).), of the House of Welf, was a Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ruling the ducal Principality of Grubenhagen between 1427 and 1464.
Life
Henry was the eldest son of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and Elizabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen, a daughter of Otto the Bad, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen. After the death of his father in 1427, he ruled jointly with his younger brothers Ernest II and Albert II.
Until his coming of age in 1437 he was under the guardianship of Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Osterode. In the year 1447 a feud broke out between Henry and Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, who was allied with the Archbishop of Mainz and the dukes of Göttingen. Louis and his allies besieged Grubenhagen Castle, but despite the deployment of two cannon, had to withdraw again. Even an attack on Salzderhelden was unsuccessful. Henry died in 1464 and was interred in the Alexanderstift in Einbeck. He was followed by his son, Henry.
Family
Henry married Margaret of Sagan (1415/25 – 9 May 1497), the daughter of John I, Duke of Sagan, and Scholastika of Saxe-Wittenberg before 27 June 1457. He was her third husband. They had two sons:{{CN|date=June 2023}}
Ancestors
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| 1= 1. Henry III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| 2= 2. Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| 3= 3. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen
| 4= 4. Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| 5= 5. Agnes of Brunswick-Lüneburg
| 6= 6. Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen
| 7= 7. Margaret of Jülich-Berg
| 8= 8. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| 9= 9. Adelaide of Everstein-Polle
| 10= 10. Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
| 11= 11. Catherine of Anhalt-Bernburg
| 12= 12. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen
| 13= 13. Elisabeth of Hesse
| 14= 14. William VII of Jülich, 1st Duke of Berg
| 15= 15. Anna of the Palatinate
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Sources
- {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|11|488|489|Heinrich III., Herzog von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen|Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr|ADB:Heinrich III. (Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Grubenhagen)}}
References
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