Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
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| Sophia Charlotte | |
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| Queen in Prussia | |
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| Consort | 18 January 1701 – 21 January 1705 |
| Consort to | Frederick I of Prussia |
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| Frederick William I of Prussia | |
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| HM The Queen in Prussia HRH The Electress of Brandenburg HSH Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover |
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| Royal house | House of Hohenzollern House of Hanover |
| Father | Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover |
| Mother | Electress Sophia |
| Born | 30 October 1668 Bad Iburg, Osnabrück |
| Died | 1 February 1705 (aged 36) |
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (born 30 October 1668, at Schloss Iburg in Bad Iburg near Osnabrück) was the daughter of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover and Sophia of the Palatinate. Her eldest brother Georg Ludwig would succeed to the British throne in 1714 as King George I. She was once rumoured to be marrying the widower Louis XIV. By marrying Frederick I of Prussia, she became Queen in Prussia. Their only child to reach maturity became Frederick William I of Prussia.
Sophia Charlotte is mainly remembered for her friendship and correspondence with her mother's good friend and tutor Gottfried Leibniz, whose avowed disciple she became. Sophia Charlotte's death of pneumonia on 21 January 1705 (OS; 1 February NS), when she was 36 years of age, devastated him.
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[edit] References
- MacDonald Ross, George, 1999, "Leibniz and Sophie-Charlotte" in Herz, S., Vogtherr, C.M., Windt, F., eds., Sophie Charlotte und ihr Schloß. München: Prestel: 95–105. English translation.
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Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
Cadet branch of the House of Welf
Born: 30 October 1668 Died: 21 January 1705 |
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| Preceded by Sophia Dorothea of Holstein |
Electress of Brandenburg 1688 – 1705 |
Succeeded by Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| Preceded by Sophia Dorothea of Holstein |
Duchess of Prussia 1688 – 1701 |
Succeeded by Last of title |
| Preceded by New title |
Queen in Prussia 1701 – 1705 |
Succeeded by Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
