Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Born| (1570-01-01)1 January 1570
Celle
Died| 15 August 1649(1649-08-15) (aged 79)
Birkenfeld
Spouse|

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

(m. 1590; died 1600)​

Issue|

* George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
* Sophie, Countess of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
* Frederick of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
* Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

House| Welf
Father| William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Mother| Dorothea of Denmark

Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1 January 1570 – 15 August 1649) was a daughter of Duke William "the younger" of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his wife, Dorothea of Denmark.[1]

She married Count Palatine Charles I of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. They had four children:

* George William (1591–1669), Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
* Sophia (1593–1676), married Kraft VII of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (1582–1641)
* Frederick (1594–1626), canon at Strasbourg
* Christian I (1598–1654), Count Palatine and Duke of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

## See also

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* Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

## References

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1. ^ Cox, Virginia (2011). The prodigious muse : women's writing in counter-reformation Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0160-7. OCLC 794700422.

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