Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was Prince of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of King George I of Great Britain. He was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy R
Portrait by Jacob Ferdinand Voet, c. 1670
Herrenhausen Great Garden, Hanover
Osnabruck Palace
Sophia of Hanover
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Sophia was Electress of Hanover from 1692 to 1698 as the consort of Prince-Elector Ernest Augustus. She was later the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England, and Ireland under the Act of Settle
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
…the youngest son of George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg and Prince of Calenberg, and Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt. On 30 September 1658, he married Sophia of the Palatinate in Heidelberg. She was the daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart of England, and granddaughter of King James I of England…
Portrait by Gerard van Honthorst, 1650
Portrait of Sophie, Princess Palatine, by Gerard van Honthorst c. 1641
Sophia, dressed as an Indigenous Brazilian, wearing a Tupinambá cape. Painted c. 1644 by her sister, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate
Electress Sophia and her daughter