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Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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Magnus (c. 1328 – 1373, Leveste, a part of today's Gehrden), calledMagnus with the Necklace (Latin Magnus Torquatus) or Magnus II, wasduke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Magnus was the son of Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg,who ruled over the Principality of Brunswick and Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel(colloquially also Brunswick), a subdivision of the ducalprincipalities. In 1363 Magnus and his brother Louis helped theirbrother Prince-Archbishop Albert II of Bremen to assert himselfagainst the incumbent diocesan administrator Morris of Oldenburg, whoclaimed the see for himself. Magnus, Louis and the latter'sfather-in-law William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle, and theirtroops beleaguered Morris in the prince-archiepiscopal castle in Hagenim Bremischen and forced him to sign his resignation.

After the death of his brother Louis in 1367, Magnus became thedesignated heir of both ducal principalities, Wolfenbüttel andPrincipality of Brunswick and Lüneburg-Celle (colloquially alsoLüneburg). When both his father and William II, who ruled over Celle,died in 1369, Magnus gained both ducal principalities. But already in1370, he lost Celle to the Ascanian dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg (Albertand his uncle Wenceslas, Elector of Saxe-Wittemberg), who had beengiven the principality by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who had alsobanned Magnus. Several cities, including Lüneburg, Uelzen, and Hanoverswitched allegiance to the Ascanians; Magnus managed to keep the Cityof Brunswick among his allies only with difficulties. The Lüneburg Warof Succession continued for several years after Magnus died in battlenear Leveste in 1373.

[edit] Family
Magnus married Catherine, daughter of Bernhard III, Prince ofAnhalt-Bernburg, who married Magnus' enemy Albert, Duke ofSaxe-Wittenberg, after his death. They had the following children thatreached adulthood:

Otto, Archbishop of Bremen (died 1406)
Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1400)
Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1434)
Henry the Mild (died 1416)
Agnes I (died 1410), married Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Helen, married Eric I, Count of Hoya
Elizabeth (died 1420), married Maurice IV, Count of Oldenburg
Sophie, married Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Maud, married Otto III, Count of Hoya
Agnes II, married Busso IV, Count of Mansfeld, Bogislav VI, Duke ofPomerania-Wolgast, and King Albert of Sweden

[edit] References
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 20, p. 64-66
Zedlers Universal-Lexicon, vol. 19, p. 241-242