Prince of Lüneburg

The following is a **list of all princes of Lüneburg** during its time as an independent principality.

The Principality of Lüneburg (), later also called _Celle_, was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 1269 to 1705,

### Old House of Lüneburg

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||John (1242-1277)|1269 - 1277|Following the division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, John was the first ruler of the new Principality of Lüneburg.|||||
||Otto II the Strict (1266-1330)|1277 - 1330|Otto II of Brunswick-Lüneburg after Otto the Child (Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg)|||||
||Otto III (1296-1352)|1330 - 1352||||||
||William († 1369)|1330 - 1369|William II of Brunswick-Lüneburg. His death precipitated the Lüneburg War of Succession in 1370.|||||

### Old House of Brunswick

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||Magnus Torquatus (1328-1373)|1369 - 1373|Magnus II. "Magnus with the Necklace." 2nd cousin, once removed, of William II|||||

### Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg

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||Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg (d 1385)|1370 - 1385|Albert moved the residence to Celle after the slighting of Lüneburg Castle.|||||
||Wenceslas of Saxe-Wittenberg (d 1388)|1370 - 1388||||||

### Middle House of Brunswick

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||Henry I the Mild (d 1416)|1388 - 1416||||||
||William the Victorious (1392-1482)|1416 - 1428||||||
||Henry II the Peaceful (1411-1473)|1416 - 1428||||||

### Middle House of Lüneburg

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||Bernard I (d 1434)|1388 - 1409 and 1428 - 1434||||||
||Otto I the Lame (d 1446)|1434 - 1446|Otto IV of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Also "Otto Crookleg".|||||
||Frederick the Pious (d 1478)|1434 - 1457 and 1472 - 1478|Frederick II|||||
||Bernard II (1432-1464)|1457 - 1464|Also Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim as Bernard III (1452–1458)|||||
||Otto II the Magnanimous (1439-1471)|1457 - 1471|Otto V of Brunswick-Lüneburg|||||
||Henry I of Lüneburg (1468-1532)|1486 - 1520||||||
||Otto I of Harburg (1495-1549)|1520 - 1527|Otto VI of Brunswick-Lüneburg|||||
||Francis (1508-1549)|1536 - 1539||||||
||Ernest the Confessor (1497-1546)|1520 - 1546|Ernest I. Introduced the Reformation into the Principality of Lüneburg in 1527. He was also the progenitor of the Calenberg-Celle and Wolfenbüttel lines|||||
||Francis Otto (1530-1559)|1555 - 1559||||||
||Henry of Dannenberg (1533-1598)|1559 - 1569|Henry III|||||
||William the Younger (1535-1592)|1559 - 1592||||||
||Ernest II (1564-1611)|1592 - 1611||||||
||Christian (1566-1633)|1611 - 1633||||||
||Augustus the Elder (1568-1636)|1633 - 1636|Augustus|||||
||Frederick (1571-1648)|1636 - 1648||||||

### New House of Lüneburg

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||**Christian Louis** _Christian Ludwig_|10 December 1648|15 March 1665|Nephew of the previous duke; he was already Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, which he resigned to his next brother to take up the rule of this duchy.||||||
||John Frederick (1625-1679) _Johann Friedrich_|1665||||||||
||**George William** _Georg Wilhelm_|15 March 1665|28 August 1705|Brother of Christian Louis, previously ruler of Brunswick-Calenberg||||||