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William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

1535 - 1592

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William (4 July 1535 – 20 August 1592), called William the Younger (German: Wilhelm der Jüngere), was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Lüneburg from 1559 until his death. Until 1569 he ruled together with his brother, Henry of Dannenberg. William was the third son of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg has received more than 86,084 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is the 558th most popular nobleman (down from 438th in 2019).

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ranks 558 out of 1,415. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Joanna, Princess of Portugal, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Maria Amalia of Courland, and Otto I, Duke of Merania. After him are Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy, Rorik of Dorestad, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, William, Duke of Brunswick, and Philippa, Countess of Toulouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1535, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ranks 17. Before him are Luis de Molina, Martin Frobisher, Frans Hogenberg, Sayri Túpac, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Marcantonio Colonna. After him are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Lucas van Valckenborch, Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Klaus Fleming, Lucrezia d'Este, and Giaches de Wert. Among people deceased in 1592, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ranks 13. Before him are Bartolomeo Ammannati, Thomas Cavendish, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, and William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Michiel Coxie, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Paschal Baylón, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, and Moderata Fonte.

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