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See also:SOPHIA DOROTHEA (1666-1726) , wife of See also:George See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, elector of See also:Hanover (George I. of See also:England), only See also:child of George See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, See also:duke of See also:Brunswick-See also:Luneburg-See also:Celle, by a Huguenot See also:lady named Eleanore d'Olbreuze (1639-1722), was See also:born on the 15th of See also:September 1666. George William had undertaken to remain unmarried, but his See also:desire to improve the status of his See also:mistress (whom in spite of his promise he married in 1676) and of his daughter greatly alarmed his relatives, as these proceedings threatened to hinder the contemplated See also:union of the Luneburg territories. However, in 1682, this difficulty was bridged over by the See also:marriage of Sophia Dorothea with her See also:cousin George Louis, son of Duke Ernest See also:Augustus, who became elector of Hanover in 1692. This union was a very unhappy one. The relatives of George Louis, especially his See also:mother, the electress Sophia, hated and despised his wife, and this feeling was soon shared by the See also:prince himself. It was under these circumstances that Sophia Dorothea made the acquaintance of See also:Count Philipp Christoph von See also:Konigsmark (q.v.), with whom her name is inseparably associated. Konigsmark assisted her in one or two futile attempts to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from Hanover, and rightly or wrongly was regarded as her See also:lover. In 1694 the count was assassinated, and the princess was divorced and imprisoned at Ahlden, remaining in captivity until her See also:death on the 23rd of See also:November 1726. Sophia Dorothea is sometimes referred to as the " princess of Ahlden." Her two See also:children were the See also:English See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, George II., and Sophia Dorothea, wife of See also:Frederick William I. of See also:Prussia, and mother of Frederick the See also:Great. Sophia's infidelity to her See also:husband is not absolutely proved, as it is probable that the letters which purport to have passed between Konigsmark and herself are forgeries.
See Briefwechsel See also:des Grafen Konigsmark and der Prinzessin Sophie Dorothea von Celle, edited by W. F. Palmblad (See also:Leipzig, 1847); A. F. H. Schaumann, Sophie Dorothea Prinzessin von Ahlden, and Kurfurstin Sophie von Hannover (Hanover, 1878); C. L. von.P011nitz, Histoire secrette de la duchesse d'Hanovre (See also:London, 1732) ; W. H. See also:Wilkins, The Love of an Uncrowned See also:Queen (London, 1900) ; A. Kocher, " See also:Die Prinzessin von Ahlden," in the Historische Zeitschrift (See also:Munich, 1882); Vicomte H. de See also:Beaucaire, Une Misalliance clans la maison de Brunswick (See also:Paris, 1884) ; and A. D. See also:Greenwood, Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England (19o9), vol. i.
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