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Sophia (born Princess Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October [O.S. 3 October] 1630 – 8 June [O.S. 28 May] 1714) was Electress of Hanover from 19 December 1692 until 23 January 1698 as the consort of Prince Elector Ernest Augustus.
Jun 4, 2024 · Sophia (born Oct. 14, 1630, The Hague—died June 8, 1714, Herrenhausen, Hanover) was the electress of Hanover and heir to the British throne, whose son became George I of Great Britain.
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Sep 22, 2017 · Sophia of Hanover was born on 14 October 1630 in The Hague, the Netherlands, where her exiled parents, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, lived. She was christened on 30 January 1631 in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague, where only three days earlier her elder sister Princess ...
Sophia, electress of Hanover (1630–1714). Sophia was a granddaughter of James I by his daughter Elizabeth, who had married the elector palatine. On the death in 1700 of Anne's last surviving child, William, duke of Gloucester, Sophia was the next non-catholic heir, and was recognized in the Act of Settlement of 1701.
Sophia was a granddaughter of James I of England and the heiress presumptive to the English crown. She married Ernst August, Elector of Hanover, and had seven children, including King George I.
An avid patron of the arts and culture, Sophia was known as a woman of incomparable knowledge who read widely and spoke five languages. The Electress died only two months before Queen Anne, though 35 years her senior, and thus narrowly missed her opportunity of becoming Queen.
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Sophia was the electress of Hanover and the grandmother of George I, king of England. She was a Protestant and a Stuart, and became the heir presumptive to the English throne by the Act of Settlement of 1701.
