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House of Hanover

European royal dynasty of German origin

  • Dated from 17th century CE

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Royal Hanover Inescutcheon
Royal_Arms_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hanover.svg : Sodacan derivative work: Sodacan (talk)  · CC BY-SA 3.0

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 23

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

14 children in the house

  1. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 CE – 1830 CE
  2. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 1763 CE – 1827 CE
  3. William IV 1765 CE – 1837 CE
  4. Charlotte, Princess Royal 1766 CE – 1828 CE
  5. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn 1767 CE – 1820 CE 1 child in the house
  6. Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom 1768 CE – 1840 CE
  7. Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover 1771 CE – 1851 CE 1 child in the house
  8. Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex 1773 CE – 1843 CE
  9. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge 1774 CE – 1850 CE 1 child in the house
  10. Princess Mary of the United Kingdom 1776 CE – 1857 CE
  11. Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom 1777 CE – 1848 CE
  12. Prince Octavius of Great Britain 1779 CE – 1783 CE
  13. Prince Alfred of Great Britain 1780 CE – 1782 CE
  14. Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom 1783 CE – 1810 CE
One family in House of Hanover: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Member of the House of Lords

  • 8 holders
  • 7 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. from 24 April 1799 CE Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851

No dates recorded 7

Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

  • 6 holders
  • 5 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 5 September 1799 CE – 23 January 1820 CE Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn British prince (1767-1820); fourth son of George III

No dates recorded 5

King of Hanover

  • 4 holders
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 12 October 1814 CE – 29 January 1820 CE George III of Great Britain King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
  2. 29 January 1820 CE – 26 June 1830 CE George IV of the United Kingdom King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
  3. 26 June 1830 CE – 20 June 1837 CE William IV King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
  4. from 20 June 1837 CE Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851

Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

  • 4 holders
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1 January 1801 CE – 29 January 1820 CE George III of Great Britain King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
  2. 29 January 1820 CE – 26 June 1830 CE George IV of the United Kingdom King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
  3. 26 June 1830 CE – 20 June 1837 CE William IV King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
  4. 20 June 1837 CE – 22 January 1901 CE Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901) Has references

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How House of Hanover connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 2

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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