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Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (13 June 1592, in Wolfenbüttel – 13 January 1642, in Arnhem ), was Countess of Nassau-Dietz by marriage to Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, and regent of the County of Nassau-Dietz during the absence of her sons between 1632 and 1642. [1]
Sophie was the eldest child of Duke William the Younger of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1535–1592) from his marriage to Dorothea of Denmark, a daughter of King Christian III of Denmark . Burial monument in St. Lorenz church, Nuremberg. On 3 May 1579 she married Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmach (1539–1603) in Dresden. [1]
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle (15 September 1666 – 13 November 1726) was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain.The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
A second child, Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Hanover, was born in 1687 after a brief reconciliation. Around 1690, Sophia began a correspondence with a Swedish count, Philip von Konigsmarck, who was serving in the Hanoverian army. They became lovers in 1692, an affair which was an open secret at the Hanover court.
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Hanover was born in 1687 in Hanover, Germany, the daughter of George I, the future king of England, and Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Celle (1666–1726). She married Frederick William I (1688–1740), king of Prussia (r. 1713–1740), and their son Frederick Hohenzollern (Frederick II the Great) was born ...
Born on March 24, 1628, in Herzberg; died on February 20, 1685, in Copenhagen, Denmark; daughter of George Guelph (b. 1582), duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. Source for information on Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneberg (1628–1685): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
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Sophia, daughter of Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg, married in 1528, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Ernest was the son of Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, whom he succeeded in 1521. His support for the Reformation and introduction of the Protestant religion into his territories ultimately secured the British throne for his Protestant ...
