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Electorate of Hanover Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Personal union with Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom (1714–1807)
Capital
Hanover
Common languages
West Low German
Religion
Lutheran
Government
Principality
Prince-elector
• 1692–1698
Ernest Augustus
• 1698–1727
George I Louis
• 1727–1760
George II Augustus
• 1760–1806
George III William Frederick
History
• Elevation to Electorate
1692
• Inherited Lüneburg and Saxe-Lauenburg
1705
• Electorate formally approved
1708
• Personal union with Great Britain and Ireland
1714
• Acquired Bremen-Verden
1715
• Merged into Kingdom of Westphalia
1807
• Re-established as Kingdom of Hanover
1814
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Principality of Calenberg
1807: Kingdom of Westphalia
1814: Kingdom of Hanover
Today part of
Germany
The Electorate of Hanover (German: Kurfürstentum Hannover or simply Kurhannover) was an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in northwestern Germany and taking its name from the capital city of Hanover. It was formally known as the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Kurfürstentum Braunschweig-Lüneburg). For most of its existence, the electorate was ruled in personal union with Great Britain and Ireland following the Hanoverian Succession.
The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg had been split in 1269 between different branches of the House of Welf. The Principality of Calenberg, ruled by a cadet branch of the family, emerged as the largest and most powerful of the Brunswick-Lüneburg states. In 1692, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated the Prince of Calenberg to the College of Electors, creating the new Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The fortunes of the electorate were tied to those of Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 and Act of Union 1707, which settled the succession to the British throne on Queen Anne's nearest Protestant relative, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and her descendants.[1]
The prince-elector of Hanover became king of Great Britain in 1714. As a consequence, a reluctant Britain was forced time and again to defend the king's German possessions.[note 1] However, Hanover remained a separately ruled territory with its own governmental bodies, and the country had to sign a treaty with Great Britain whenever Hanoverian troops fought on the British side of a war. Merged into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807, it was re-established as the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814, and the personal union with the British crown lasted until 1837.[3]
^Heide Barmeyer. "Hannover und die englische Thronfolge" (PDF). H-Soz-Kult. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
^Auguste Himly, Histoire de la formation territoriale des États de l'Europe centrale. 1876, vol. 1, pp. 95–96.
^Nick Harding (2007). Hanover and the British Empire, 1700–1837. Boydell & Brewer. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-84383-300-0.
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