Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
This page covers the territory of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1495, when it was revived in a partition of Welfian lands, until 1806. Between 1596 and 1617, Wolfenbüttel had direct sovereignty over, was in personal union with, or had administrative responsibility for all Welfian lands except Lüneburg. It was the only Welfian territory never to have been absorbed into the Electorate of Hannover.
- Simplified country name: Wolfenbüttel
- Nation: Welfian Germany
- Predecessor: Principality of Brunswick
- Chronology
- 1432: Founded
- 1473: Terminated for the first time
- 1495: Revived/beginning of database
- 1584: Acquired Calenberg (previously independent)
- 1617: Acquired Amt Elbingrode from Grubenhagen
- 1635: Partitioned to restore an independent Calenberg
- 1648: Acquired Walkenried (previously independent)
- 1651: Acquired the Blankenburg Ämter from Halberstadt
- 1703: Acquired Amt Thedinghausen from Lüneburg
- 1806: Terminated/end of database
- Successors
- Kingdom of Westphalia (Napoleonic client) (1806-1815)
- Duchy of Brunswick (1815-1918)
- Spinoffs
- Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1667-1735)
- County/Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Blankenburg (1690-1731)
- Outsourcings
- by Wolfenbüttel to:
- Count of Tattenbach (1651-1671)
- to Wolfenbüttel by:
- Principality of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1596-1617)
- Bishopric of Halberstadt (1599-1635)
- Principality of Lüneburg-Dannenberg-Hitzacker (1634-1636)
- Principality of Lüneburg-Dannenberg (1636-1671)
- by Wolfenbüttel to:
- Personal unions
- as primary
- County of Hoya (1584-1635)
- County of Diepholz (1585-1635)
- Principality of Blankenburg (1731-1806)
- as secondary: none
- as primary
- Condominia
- Kommunionunterharz (1635-1788)