Sophia Charlotte of Hanover

Infobox Prussian Royalty|majesty|consort
name = Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
title = Queen consort in Prussia


reign = 18 January 1701 – 21 January 1705
spouse = Frederick I
issue = Frederick William I
titles = "HM" The Queen in Prussia
"HRH" The Electress of Brandenburg, Duchess of Prussia
"HSH" Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Brunswick-Luneburg
royal house = House of Hohenzollern
House of Hanover
father = Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
mother = Electress Sophia
date of birth = birth date|1668|10|30|df=yes
place of birth = Bad Iburg, Osnabrück
date of death = death date and age|1705|2|1|1668|10|30|df=yes
place of death = Hanover|

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (30 October 1668, at Schloss Iburg in Bad Iburg near Osnabrück – 1 February 1705 in Hanover) 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.

Ancestors

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1= 1. Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
2= 2. Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
3= 3. Sophia, Princess Palatine of the Rhine
4= 4. George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
5= 5. Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt
6= 6. Frederick V, Elector Palatine
7= 7. Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland
8= 8. William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
9= 9. Dorothea of Denmark
10= 10. Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
11= 11. Margravine Magdalene of Brandenburg
12= 12. Frederick IV, Elector Palatine
13= 13. Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau
14= 14. James I of England
15= 15. Anne of Denmark
16= 16. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
17= 17. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
18= 18. Christian III of Denmark
19= 19. Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
20= 20. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
21= 21. Magdalene of Lippe
22= 22. John George, Elector of Brandenburg
23= 23. Princess Elizabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst
24= 24. Louis VI, Elector Palatine
25= 25. Elisabeth of Hesse
26= 26. Prince William I of Orange
27= 27. Charlotte of Bourbon
28= 28. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
29= 29. Mary I of Scotland
30= 30. Frederick II of Denmark
31= 31. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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. [http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/GMR/homepage/sophiec.html English translation.]