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Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701

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Oct 14, 1630 The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands Died on 08 Jun 1714 (aged 83)

Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701

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About Sophia Of Hanover

  • Sophia of Hanover (born Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714) was the Electress consort of Hanover from 1692 to 1698.
  • As a Protestant granddaughter of James I, she became heir presumptive to the crowns of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland under the Act of Settlement 1701.
  • After the Acts of Union 1707, she became heir presumptive to the unified throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • She died less than two months before she would have become queen succeeding her first cousin once removed, Queen Anne, and her claim to the throne passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended as George I on 1 August 1714 (Old Style). Born to Frederick V of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, and Elizabeth Stuart, in 1630, Sophia grew up in the Dutch Republic, where her family had sought refuge after the sequestration of their Electorate during the Thirty Years' War.
  • Sophia's brother Charles Louis was restored to the Lower Palatinate as part of the Peace of Westphalia.
  • Sophia married Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1658.
  • Despite his jealous temper and frequent absences, Sophia loved him, and bore him seven children who survived to adulthood.
  • Initially a landless cadet, Ernest Augustus succeeded in having the House of Hanover raised to electoral dignity in 1692.
  • Therefore, Sophia became Electress of Hanover, the title by which she is best remembered.
  • A patron of the arts, Sophia commissioned the palace and gardens of Herrenhausen and sponsored philosophers, such as Gottfried Leibniz and John Toland.

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