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Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ernestus Augustus la
German prince (1629-1698)
- Child of George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Married to Sophia of Hanover, Clara Elisabeth von Platen
- Dated 20 November 1629 CE (Old Style) – 23 January 1698 CE (Old Style)
Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück
Prince-Elector
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 2
- from 1692 CE Prince-Elector
Family
The family of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 22
Family 22
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage (1601-1659)
- child of (father) George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg founder of the House of Hanover
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of the house House of Hanover European royal dynasty of German origin - parent of (child) Charles Philip, Prince of Hanover (1669-1690)
- parent of (child) child1 Hanover (1664-1664)
- parent of (child) child2 Hanover (1664-1664)
- parent of (child) Christian Heinrich Hanover (1671-1703)
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parent of (father) Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1674-1728) - parent of (child) Ernst August von Platen-Hallermund (1674-1726)
- parent of (child) Friedrich August Hanover, Prince of Hanover (1661-1690)
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parent of (father) George I of Great Britain King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 - parent of (child) Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg German Field Marshal (1666-1726)
- parent of (child) son1 Hanover (1666-1666)
- parent of (child) Sophia Charlotte of Hanover Prussian royal consort
- parent of (child) Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington German-born British courtier and half-sister of George I of Great Britain (1675-1725)
- partner of Clara Elisabeth von Platen German noblewoman, mistress of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover (1648-1700)
- sibling of Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg and Brunswick-Lüneburg
- sibling of George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg and Brunswick-Lüneberg (1624-1705)
- sibling of John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625-1679)
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sibling of Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg Queen consort of Denmark and Norway (1628–1685) -
married to Sophia of Hanover Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701 - married to Clara Elisabeth von Platen German noblewoman, mistress of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover (1648-1700)
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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25 statements on this record
- 14 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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