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		Theodon III, Duke of BAVARIA (____ - 630)
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		Duke Henry II of Brabant and Lothier was born in 1207 in Unknown.
		Duke Henry of Saxony and Bavaria (Henry the Lion) was born in 1129 in Unknown.
		Duke Johann II of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg was born on Mar 25, 1545 in Hadersleben.
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	Bavaria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07
		The largest state of Germany, Bavaria is bordered by the Czech Republic on the east, by Austria on the southeast and south, by Baden-Württemberg on the west, by Hesse on the northwest, and by Thuringia and Saxony on the north.
		Frederick II restored (1156) Bavaria to Henry the Lion but in 1180 deposed the rebellious Guelph and bestowed the duchy (from which he detached considerable territory in what is now Austria) on Otto of Wittelsbach.
		Bavaria was overrun by foreign armies, notably in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778, by which Bavaria lost the Inn Quarter to Austria), and the French Revolutionary Wars.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Bavaria.html (1297 words)

	Learn more about Welf in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first known member is Welf I, father of Judith, the wife of the emperor Louis the Pious, and of Emma, the wife of Louis the German.
		Welf V married countess Matilda of Tuscany who died childless and left him her possessions in Saint-Siège: Tuscany, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua, Reggio, etc., which led to the Investiture controversy.
		Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria from 1120-1126, was the first of the three Henries of the Welf dynasty.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/we/welf.html (305 words)

	Welf - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Welf is the older branch of the House of Este, a dynasty whose oldest known members lived in Lombardy in the 9th century.
		His son, Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria and also of Saxony, was the favoured candidate in the imperial election against Conrad III of the Hohenstaufens.
		Although the Duchy should have been inherited by the Duke of Cumberland, son of the last king of Hanover, suspicions of his loyalty led the duchy's throne to remain vacant until 1913, when Cumberland's son, Ernst August, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II and was allowed to inherit the duchy.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Welf (540 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Welf
		The first member of the family named Welf was Welf I, father of Judith, the wife of the emperor Louis the Pious, and of Emma, the wife of Louis the German.
		Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria and also of Saxony, was the favoured candidate in the imperial election against Conrad III of the Hohenstaufens.
		Although the Duchy should have been inherited by the Duke of Cumberland, son of the last King of Hanover, suspicions of his loyalty led the duchy's throne to remain vacant until 1913, when Cumberland's son married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II and was allowed to inherit the duchy.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Welf (481 words)

	Henry The Lion - LoveToKnow 1911
		HENRY (1129-1195), surnamed the "Lion," duke of Saxony and Bavaria, only son of Henry the Proud, duke of Saxony and Bavaria, and Gertrude, daughter of the emperor Lothair the Saxon, was born at Ravensburg, and was a member of the family of Welf.
		Adolph II., count of Holstein, was compelled to cede Lubeck to him in 1158; campaigns in 1163 and 1164 beat down further resistance of the Abotrites; and Saxon garrisons were established in the conquered lands.
		Having obtained a divorce from his first wife in 1162, Henry was married at Minden in February 1168 to Matilda (1156-1189), daughter of Henry II., king of England, and was soon afterwards sent by the emperor Frederick I. on an embassy to the kings of England and France.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Henry_The_Lion (1328 words)

	Courtly Lives - HRE Frederick II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leopold IV (1108-1141), Margrave of Austria in 1136, and Duke of Bavaria in 1139.
		Henry II (1114-1177), Jasomirgott Margrave in 1141; and Duke of Austria in 1156.
		1247) was the great-grandson of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/FrederickIIHRE.html (2490 words)

	Leibnitiana
		The first clearly discernible ancestor of the dynasty is the Count Welf who had possessions in Bavaria in the first quarter of the 9th century and whose daughters Judith and Emma married, respectively, the Frankish emperor Louis I the Pious and the East Frankish king Louis the German.
		Welf III was enfeoffed as duke of Carinthia in 1047, but died in 1055.
		Welf IV became duke of Bavaria as Welf I, in 1070.
	www.gwleibniz.com /britannica_pages/welf_dynasty/welf_dynasty.html (614 words)

	The Holy Roman Empire
		Azo II of Este married Cunigonde of Bavaria, the daughter of Guelph II, and Judith of Luxemberg, daughter of Sainte Cunigunde’s brother Frederick of Luxembourg.
		Albert II’s father was the grandson of Albert III Duke of Austria, the son of Albert I Holy Roman Emperor.
		The House of Castille is descended from Alfonso VII “the Emperor” of Galicia, Leon and Castile, and Richeza of Poland, the daughter of Wladislaw II of Poland, a descendant of Mieszko I, and Adelaide, the daughter of Michael Arpad.
	www.terrorism-illuminati.com /book/holy_roman_empire.html (3330 words)

	Family, Friends and Followers - Cambridge University Press
		Ernst II, duke of Swabia 60, 88, 129
		Henry the Lion, duke of Bavaria and Saxony 46–7, 94, 158
		Wezelo, vassal of Duke Ernst of Swabia 88
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521770545&ss=ind (627 words)

	abbey - pafg34 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Welf I,duke of Bavaria was born in 787.
		Grimaldo II of Bavaria was born in 630/762.
		V Theodon Duke of Bavaria was born in 712/716.
	www.soft-light.com /abbeyfamily/pafg34.htm (175 words)

	Family, Friends and Followers - Cambridge University Press
		Ernst II, duke of Swabia 60, 88, 129
		Henry the Lion, duke of Bavaria and Saxony 46–7, 94, 158
		Wezelo, vassal of Duke Ernst of Swabia 88
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521779340&ss=ind (637 words)

	Welf II, Duke of Bavaria at AllExperts
		Welf II (1072 – 24 September 1120, Kaufering), or Welfhard, called Welf the Fat, was duke of Bavaria from 1101 until his death.
		Welf was the oldest son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Judith of Flanders.
		Since Matilda had secretly transferred her property to the Church before her marriage, Welf left her in 1095 and, together with his father, changed sides to King Henry IV, possibly in exchange for a promise of succeeding his father as duke of Bavaria.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/we/welf_ii,_duke_of_bavaria.htm (293 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Bavaria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bavaria has long been a bastion of conservative politics in Germany, with the Christian Social Union having almost a stranglehold on power since its inception in 1946.
		When Henry the Lion was deposed as duke of Saxony and Bavaria by his cousin, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1180, Bavaria was awarded as fief to the Wittelsbach family, which ruled from 1180 to 1918.
		It became a kingdom in 1806, and in 1815 the Rhenish Palatinate was annexed to it.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Bavaria (1355 words)

	The History of Bavaria
		In 1803 Bavaria received the bishoprics of Würzburg, Bamberg, Augsburg and Freisingen, part of that of Passau, the territories of twelve abbeys, and seventeen cities and villages, the whole forming a compact territory which more than compensated for the loss of her outlying provinces on the Rhine.
		Bavaria accordingly opposed the Prussian proposals for the reorganization of the Confederation, and one of the last acts of King Maximilian was to take a conspicuous part in the assembly of princes summoned to Frankfurt in 1863 by the emperor Francis Joseph.
		Bavaria and the German EmpireThis was preceded, on 23 November 1870, by the signature of a treaty between Bavaria and the North German Confederation.
	www.zeitlerweb.com /bavaria.htm (6126 words)

	33rd Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Welf von Bavaria IV, Duke of Bavaria "Guelph" was born 1036 in Este, Bavaria and married circa 1071.
		Welf IV became duke of Bavaria as Welf I, in 1070.
		Magnus von Saxony, Duke of Saxony was born circa 1045 in Saxe, Prussia.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /gneville/aqwg59.htm (317 words)

	Titles of European hereditary rulers
		In 1180, the Roman Emperor Frederick I deposed the rebellious Henry XII "the Lion" (+1195), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and bestowed the Duchy of Bavaria to Otto of Wittelsbach (+1183).
		< Henry II "the Jasomirgott" (+1177), Margrave (Duke 1156) of Austria 1141; Duke of Bavaria [1143-1156] >
		Emperor Frederick I deposed the rebellious Henry XII "the Lion" (+1195), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and bestowed the Duchy of Bavaria to Otto of Wittelsbach (+1183) (1180).
	www.geocities.com /eurprin/bavaria.html (4035 words)

	Brief History of Bavaria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1070, Bavaria was ceded by emperor Henry IV to a member of the house of Este (originaly from near Padua), who became Welf IV.
		The name of Welf had figured before in the empire, but it is principally associated with Bavaria and its opposition to the Hohenstaufen dynasty (1138-1254).
		In 1806, allied to Napoleon, Bavaria became a Kingdom, part of the Confederation of the Rhine, but in 1813 it switched sides and retained its autonomy after the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (1815) as part of the German Confederation.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/b/Bavaria_brief.htm (351 words)

	cars - Este
		His son, Welf d'Este IV (d 1101) became the heir of his maternal uncle, Welf III, and succeeded him as the Duke of Carinthia, which was changed 1070 as duke of Bavaria.
		The last duke of the direct line, Ercole III d'Este, was deposed in 1796 by the French as his Italian principality was incorporated into the Cisalpine Republic, later Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
		Duke Ercole died in 1803 and Breisgau was inherited by his daughter (and her husband), who soon (1805) lost it to the enlarging Grand Duchy of Baden.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Este (874 words)

	Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
		The Welf heirs, although apparently the losers, deprived of Saxony (1138, 1180) and Bavaria (1180), were then compensated with Saxon lands, the Duchy of Brunswick, which grew into the Kingdom of Hanover.
		In 1423, the Wettins became the Dukes of Saxony -- the opposite of the dynamic in 909.
		Bavaria is passed on to the Wittelsbachs, who hold it henceforth, actually all the way until 1918.
	www.friesian.com /germany.htm (10929 words)

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		It operates exclusively in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party CDU operates in the rest of the country.
		On the other hand the sacred King of all Bavarians, Ludwig II, architect of almost all castles in the south of Munich of which Neuschwanstein (new-swan-rock) is best known for its role model for Walt Disney's sleeping beauty castle.
		Bavaria is well supplied with institutions for the care of the sick, the crippled, children, and old people.
	www.lycos.com /info/bavaria.html (694 words)

	Rulers of Saxony
		With the final removal of the Welfs in 1180, the Duchies of Brunswick and Lüneburg, which fell to their descendants, passed out of the control of the Duchy of Saxony.
		On Albert II's death, Saxony was split between his sons, who became Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Saxe-Lauenburg.
		In 1356 was issued the Golden Bull, which raised the Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of Elector.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_Saxon_dukes,_kings,_and_emperors.html (339 words)

	Munich
		In 1240 Munich itself was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in 1255, when the dukedom of Bavaria was split in two, Munich became the ducal residence of Upper Bavaria.
		Duke Louis IV was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328, Munich was his residence.
		Capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria In 1806, it became the capital of the new Kingdom of Bavaria, with the state's parliament (the Landtag) and the new archdiocese of Munich and Freising being located in the city.
	pages.emerson.edu /Staff/D/David_Griffin/Excursions/munich_page_hi.html (1556 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Guelph II (Welf) the Fat of Bavaria
		Welf was the oldest son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Judith of Flanders.
		Since Matilda had secretly transferred her property to the Church before her marriage, Welf left her in 1095 and, together with his father, changed sides to King Henry IV, possibly in exchange for a promise of succeeding his father as duke of Bavaria.
		Welf was buried in the Abbey of Weingarten.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/3/3427.htm (247 words)

	Este
		The elder branch of the House of Este, the House of Welf, produced dukes of Bavaria (1070-1139, 1156-1180), dukes of Saxony (1138-1139, 1142-1180), a German king (1198-1218), dukes and electors of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1208-1918), kings of Hanover (1815-1866), and kings of Great Britain (1714-1901).
		He succeeded his maternal uncle, Welf III, as duke of Carinthia, became duke of Bavaria in 1070, and is the ancestor of the elder branch, the House of Welf.
		The last duke, Ercole III, was deposed in 1796 by the French and his two duchies became the Cispadane Republic which one year later was merged into the Cisalpine Republic and then into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/es/Este.htm (1047 words)

	HENRY (c. 11081139) - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY (c. 11081139) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(14891568), duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, was a son of Duke Henry I. and was born on the 10th of November 1489.
		The duke soon came into collision with the Protestant towns of Goslar and Brunswick, against the former of which a sentence of restitution had been pronounced by the imperial court of justice (Reichskammergericht).
		11081139), surnamed the Proud, duke of Saxony and Bavaria, second son of Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria, and Wulfhild, daughter of Magnus Billung, duke of Saxony, was a member of the Welf family.
	11.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENRY_c_1108_1139_.htm (1574 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
		Henry IX (died 13 December 1126), called the Black, a member of the House of Welf, was duke of Bavaria from 1120 to 1126.
		Henry was the second son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria.
		Sophia, married Berthold III, Duke of Zähringen and Leopold I, Duke of Styria
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Henry_IX,_Duke_of_Bavaria (262 words)

	Göttingen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As normally the founding of a city is a privilege granted by the ruler of the territory, and the ruler was the duke of Saxony and Bavaria, Henry the Lion, it is presumed that he founded the city.
		The university of Göttingen was founded in 1737 by George II August, king of England and prince-elector of Hanover.
		During the Napoleonic period the city was briefly in the hands of Prussia in 1806, turned over in 1807 to the newly created Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia, and returned to the state of Hanover in 1813 after Napoleon's defeat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/G%c3%b6ttingen (1818 words)

	Munich 1 Germany Photo Gallery by Luc VN at pbase.com
		In 1180, with the trial of Henry the Lion, Otto of Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria.
		In 1255, the dukedom of Bavaria was split in two, and Munich became the ducal residence of Upper Bavaria.
		Duke Louis IV was elected German king in 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328, Munich was his residence.
	www.pbase.com /luc_vn/munich1 (358 words)

	Kingdoms of Germany - Bavaria
		In 888, Bavaria emerged as a stem duchy from the fragmentation of the Frankish Empire.
		Bavaria is raised to a kingdom by Napoleon Bonaparte of the French First Empire.
		The current Duke Albert is also the senior member of the House of Stuart, and is considered by modern Jacobites to be the rightful ruler of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
	www.historyfiles.co.uk /KingListsEurope/GermanyBavarians.htm (494 words)

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