Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg · Germany · On the map · Lived 1470 to 1540 · aged 70
Eric I, the Elder was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1495 and the first reigning prince of Calenberg-Göttingen.
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Relief No.13 in the cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I, Innsbruck. Eric saved the life of Maximilian in the Battle of Wenzenbach, Regensburg.
Duke Eric the Elder of Calenberg receives from Emperor Maximilian before the fortress of Kufstein in Tyrol a symbolic box on the ear, because he had dared to ask the emperor for the life of the vanquished. As Duke Eric had saved the emperor in 1504 at the Battle of Regensburg, the emperor granted the wish of his godson and let the occupants of the castle go free
The Erichsburg, named after Eric's eponymous son. Copperplate by Merian around 1650About this person
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Lived 1470 to 1540 · aged 70