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Families covered: Dukes of Bavaria and Saxony, Dukes of Luneburg and Braunschweig (Brunswick)

                               
Welf, Duke of Bavaria (d 1101)
m1. Ethelina of Saxony (dau of Otto, Duke of Saxony)
m2. (c1071) Judith of Flanders (dau of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders)
1. Welf, Duke of Bavaria (b c1073, d 24.09.1120)
  m. (1089) Matilda of Tuscany (d 1115)
2. Henry 'the Black', Duke of Bavaria (b c1074, d 20.10.1139)
  m. Wulfhild of Saxony (b 1075, d 1126, dau of Magnus, Duke of Saxony)
A. Henry 'the Proud', Duke of Bavaria and Saxony (b c1108, d 20.10.1139)
  m. (29.05.1127) Gertrude (d 1143, dau of Emperor Lothar III of Supplinburg)
  i. Henry 'the Lion', Duke of Bavaria and Saxony (b 1129, d 06.08.1195)
  m1. (1147, div 1162) Clementia of Zahringen (d before 1167)
  a. Gertrud or Rira of Saxony (d 1197)
  m1. (1166) Friderich IV, Duke of Swabia (b 1145, d 1167)
  m2. (1177) Knut VI, King of Denmark (dsp 11.11.1202)
  m2. (01.02.1168) Matilda of England (b 1156, d 06.08.1195, dau of Henry Plantagenet, King Henry II of England)
b. Otto IV, Duke of Swabia, Emperor (d 15/9.05.1218)
  m1. (1212) Beatrix von Hohenstaufen (b 1198, d 1212/3, dau of Emperor Philip)
  m2. (1214) Marie of Brabant (d 1243, dau of Henry I, Duke of Brabant)
  c. Henry I, Palatine of the Rhine (b c1173, d 28.04.1227)
  m1. (1194) Agnes of Staufen (b 1176, d 1204, dau of Conrad, Palatine of the Rhein)
  (1) Henry II, Palatine of the Rhine (b c1196, dsp 01.05.1214)
  m. (1212) Matilda of Brabant (d 1267)
(2) Irmingard of the Rhine (d 24.02.1260)
  m. (c1217) Hermann I, Margrave of Baden (d 1243)
  (3) Agnes of the Rhine (d 16.08.1267) GHJS
  m. (1222/5) Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (b 07.04.1206, d 29.11.1253) GHJS
  m2. (1211) Agnes of Landsberg (d 1248)
d. William 'of Winchester', Duke of Luneburg (d 13.12.1213)
  m. (1202) Helene of Denmark (d 1233, dau of Waldemar I, King of Denmark)
  (1) Otto 'Puer', Duke of Luneburg and Braunschweig (b 1204, d 1252)
  m. (1228) Matilda of Brandenburg (d 10.06.1261, dau of Albert II, Markgrave of Brandenburg)
  (A) Albert I 'Magnus', Duke of Braunschweig (b 1236, d 15.08.1279)
  m1. (1254) Elisabeth of Brabant (b 1243, d 1261)
ROYL (tables CCLXIX and CCCCXVI) show Albert's (2nd) wife as Adelheid, daughter of Aldobrandus of Este, but we follow GenEU in showing her as ...
  m2. (1263) Alessina of Montferrat (d 06.02.1285, dau of Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat)
  (i) Henry I 'Mirabilis' , Duke of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (b 1267, d 07.09.1322) had issue
  m. (1282) Agnes of Misnia/Meissen (dau of Albert, Margrave of Misnia/ Meissen)
  (ii) Albert II 'Pinguis (the Fat)', Duke of Braunschweig-Gottingen (b c1268, d 22.09.1318)
  m. (10.01.1284) Richenda or Rira/Rixa (dau of Henry, Prince of the Wenden)
(a) Magnus I 'the Pious', Duke of Braunschweig-Gottingen (b c1304, d 1369)
  m. Sofie of Brandenburg (b 1300, d c1356, dau of Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg)
  ((1)) Magnus II, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg (b c1328, d 26.07.1373)
  m. Katharina of Anhalt (d 1390, dau of Bernard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg)
((A)) Sophie of Braunschweig S
  m. (1373) Erich III/IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenberg (b 1354, d 21.06.1412) S
  ((B))+ other issue
  ((2)) Katharine of Braunschweig  
  m. (1391) Gerhard, Count of Holstein, Duke of Schleswig (d 1404)  
  ((3))+ other issue
(iii) Matilda of Braunschweig (b 1276, d 1318) HS
  m. (c1290) Henry, Duke of Glogau (d 1309/10) HS
  (iv)+ other issue
(B) Johann, Duke of Luneburg (b c1242, d 1277) had issue
  m. (1265) Liutgard of Holstein
  (C) Helen of Braunschweig-Luneburg (b 1223, d 06.09.1273) S--
  m1. (1239) Hermann II of Thuringia (d 1241)
  m2. (1247/8) Albrecht I, Duke of Saxony (d 1260) S--
  (D) Agnes of Braunschweig-Luneburg
  m. Wizlaw II of Rugen (d 1302)
  (i) Margaret of Rugen S
  m. Bugislaus (Bogislaw) IV, Duke of Pomerania (d 1309) S
  (E)+ other issue
  p. Ida von Blieskastel (d c1190)
  e. Matilda (Mechtild) S
  m. (1167) Henry Borwin I of Mecklenburg (d 28.01.1227) S
  B. Judith of Bavaria GHJSWY
  m. Friederich II, Duke of Swabia (b c1090, 1147) GHJSWY
  C.+ other issue

Main source(s): GenEU (Welfen2, 3), ROYL (tables CCXLII, CCLXXVI, CCLXXVII, CCLXXVIII)
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