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  2. Ernest Augustus (German: Ernst August; 20 November 1629 – 23 January 1698), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was Prince of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of George I of Great Britain. He was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692.

  3. Jul 19, 1998 · In 1810 Ernest Augustus was severely injured by an assailant, probably his valet Sellis, who was found dead; subsequently two men were imprisoned for asserting that the duke had murdered his valet. Recovering from his wounds, the duke again proceeded to the seat of war; as a British field marshal , he was in command of the Hanoverian army ...

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  4. On his father’s death (1878), however, he maintained his claim to the Hanoverian throne. In 1884 on the death, without issue, of his kinsman William, the last sovereign duke of Brunswick, he also claimed that duchy.

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  5. Ernest Augustus ( German: Ernst August; 20 November 1629 – 23 January 1698), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was Prince of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of George I of Great Britain. He was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692.

  6. Ernest Augustus (5 June 1771 – 18 November 1851) was the fifth son and eighth child of George III of the United Kingdom. Ernest Augustus was made Duke of Cumberland by his father and became King of Hanover on 28 June 1837, on the death of his brother William IV of the United Kingdom . His successor in Hanover was his only son, George V of Hanover .

  7. Ernest Augustus died on November 18, 1851, leaving an only child, George V. (Taken from Burke's Peerage, see below.)

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