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In May 1913 the Welf-Hohenzollern feud over possession of the duchy of Brunswick was healed by the marriage of his son Ernest Augustus (1887–1953) to William II’s only daughter, Victoria Louise. Ernest Augustus then renounced his rights in favour of his son, the Federal Council lifted its veto, and the young prince became a sovereign ruler as Ernest Augustus, duke of Brunswick (November 1 ...
He was born in 1682 as the fourth son of Duke Ferdinand Albert I of Brunswick-Bevern and his wife, Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Eschwege. On 1 May 1706, he became a colonel in the Prussian army. In December of that year he succeeded his twin brother, Ferdinand Christian (d. 1706) as provost of the chapters of St. Blaise and St. Cyriakus in Brunswick.
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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 ...
27 de nov. de 2023 · George III's Machiavellian son Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ruled Hanover on behalf of Queen Victoria because females were excluded from the Hanoverian succession under Salic Law. The Germanic version of his name was Ernst August.
Ernest Augustus (Ernest Augustus Christian George; German language: Ernst August Christian Georg; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953) was the reigning Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of George V of Hanover, whom the Prussians had deposed from the Hanoverian throne in 1866, and Christian IX of Denmark. Ernest Augustus was born at Penzing near ...
Augustus was born in 1564 as the fifth of fifteen children and the son of William the Younger and his wife Dorothea of Denmark. As a young man he was a colonel in the service of Rudolf II and fought in the campaigns against France and Turkey. In 1610 Augustus became the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg.
