George I (1660-1727) Elector of Hanover; King of England and Ireland (1714-27).Manuscript Letter Signed ("Georg Ludwig") as elector of Brunswick - Lüneburg (Hanover), two pages, 12 x 7¾ inches, Hanover, June 11, 1698. Sending condolences to Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674-1748), on the death of her husband (Duke Frederick Casimir Kettler of Courland). Light soiling; partial fold separations to integral address leaf. With black wax seal ("Georgius Ludovicus…"). Written less than five months after George's uncle Ernest Augustus died on Jan. 23, 1698, leaving all of his territories except Osnabrück to George, and making him Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1701 The Act of Settlement, prohibiting a Catholic or one who married a Catholic from the English throne, was passed and George's mother, the Electress Sophia (granddaughter of James I and a Protestant), was named heir to Anne. When Sophia died on May 28 and Anne followed on Aug. 1, George became king.
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