Queen consort Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Female 1683 - 1737  (54 years)


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  1. 1.  Queen consort Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was born 1 Mar 1683, Ansbach, Stadtkreis Ansbach, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany; died 20 Nov 1737, St James, City of Westminster, Greater London, England; was buried , Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England .

    Notes:

    British Monarch. She was the Queen consort of King George II. Daughter of Johann Friedrich, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. She married George, electorate of Hanover, in September of 1705. They ascended the throne of England in 1727. Theirs was a successful marriage, despite George's mistresses, and she bore 12 children, 8 of whom survived. Beautiful and intelligent, she was very popular with the people, and was involved in matters of state more than any other queen since the Middle Ages. A popular satirical verse of the time went "You may strut, dapper George, but 'twill all be in vain, We all know 'tis Queen Caroline, not you, that reign". She died at the age of 54 of complications following a rupture of the womb.

    Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 ? 20 November 1737[1]) was Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II.

    Her father, Margrave John Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach, belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern and was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality of Ansbach. Caroline was orphaned at a young age and moved to the enlightened court of her guardians, King Frederick I and Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia. At the Prussian court, her previously limited education was widened, and she adopted the liberal outlook possessed by Sophia Charlotte, who became her good friend and whose views influenced Caroline all her life.

    As a young woman, Caroline was much sought-after as a bride. After rejecting the suit of the nominal King of Spain, Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus, the third-in-line to the British throne and heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover. They had eight children, seven of whom grew to adulthood.

    Caroline moved permanently to Britain in 1714 when her husband became Prince of Wales. As Princess of Wales, she joined her husband in rallying political opposition to his father King George I. In 1717, her husband was expelled from court after a family row. Caroline came to be associated with Robert Walpole, an opposition politician who was a former government minister. Walpole rejoined the government in 1720, and Caroline's husband and King George I reconciled publicly, on Walpole's advice. Over the next few years, Walpole rose to become the leading minister.

    Caroline became queen and electress consort upon her husband's accession in 1727. Her eldest son, Frederick, became Prince of Wales. He was a focus for the opposition, like his father before him, and Caroline's relationship with him was strained. As princess and as queen, Caroline was known for her political influence, which she exercised through and for Walpole. Her tenure included four regencies during her husband's stays in Hanover, and she is credited with strengthening the House of Hanover's place in Britain during a period of political instability. Caroline was widely mourned by her political allies following her death in 1737, as well as by the King, who refused to remarry.

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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9560/caroline_of_brandenburg-ansbach

    Wilhelmina married George Augustus "George" of Great Britan and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, II, [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Mary von Hannover  Descendancy chart to this point was born 22 Feb 1723, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England; died 14 Jan 1772, Hanau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany; was buried , Marienkirche Hanau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Mary von Hannover Descendancy chart to this point (1.Wilhelmina1) was born 22 Feb 1723, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England; died 14 Jan 1772, Hanau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany; was buried , Marienkirche Hanau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany.

    Mary married Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel, II 28 Jun 1740, Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. Friedrich was born 14 Aug 1720, Kassel, Stadtkreis Kassel, Hessen, Germany; died 31 Oct 1785, Pommersfelden, Landkreis Bamberg, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany; was buried , Elisabethkirche Kassel, Stadtkreis Kassel, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. Friedrich Hessen-Kassel, III  Descendancy chart to this point was born 11 Sep 1747, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; was christened 4 Feb 1748, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; died 20 May 1837, Rumpenheim Schloß, Offenbach am Main, Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland; was buried 28 Jan 1820, Mausoleum und Schlosskirche Rumpenheim Offenbach am Main, Stadtkreis Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Friedrich Hessen-Kassel, III Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Wilhelmina1) was born 11 Sep 1747, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; was christened 4 Feb 1748, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; died 20 May 1837, Rumpenheim Schloß, Offenbach am Main, Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland; was buried 28 Jan 1820, Mausoleum und Schlosskirche Rumpenheim Offenbach am Main, Stadtkreis Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany.

    Notes:

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201324259/frederick-von_hessen-kassel

    Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel was a younger member of the dynasty that ruled the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general.

    He was born as the youngest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain. He was the last surviving grandchild of George II of Great Britain, dying one month before Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.

    He married Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen , he bought the castle of Rumpenheim, Offenbach, from his brother Carl, and it became the family's seat. His descendants are known as the Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim branch of the House of Hesse, one of only two branches that survived to the present day.
    Children:
    William (24 December 1787 ? 5 September 1867), married Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789?1864) and was the father of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (wife of Christian IX of Denmark).
    Karl Friedrich (9 March 1789 ? 10 September 1802)
    Friedrich Wilhelm (24 April 1790 ? 25 October 1876)
    Ludwig Karl (12 November 1791 ? 12 May 1800)
    Georg Karl (14 January 1793 ? 4 March 1881)
    Luise Karoline Marie Friederike (9 April 1794 ? 16 March 1881), married Graf George von der Decken (1787?1859), King's Hanoverian General of the Cavalry (Germany)
    Marie Wilhelmine Friederike (21 January 1796 ? 30 December 1880), married Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779?1860)
    Augusta Wilhelmine Luise (25 July 1797 ? 6 April 1889), married Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774?1850)

    Friedrich married Karoline Polyxene von Nassau-Usingen 2 Dec 1786, Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. Karoline was born 4 Apr 1762, Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany; died 18 Sep 1821, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; was buried 25 Sep 1821, Mausoleum und Schlosskirche Rumpenheim Offenbach am Main, Stadtkreis Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 4. Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel  Descendancy chart to this point was born 25 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; was christened 31 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; died 6 Apr 1889, Saint James's Palace, London, England, United Kingdom; was buried , St. George's Chapel Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel Descendancy chart to this point (3.Friedrich3, 2.Mary2, 1.Wilhelmina1) was born 25 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; was christened 31 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; died 6 Apr 1889, Saint James's Palace, London, England, United Kingdom; was buried , St. George's Chapel Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England.

    Notes:

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157292962/augusta-von_hesse-kassel

    Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (German: Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel; 25 July 1797 ? 6 April 1889) was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of George V.

    Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, third daughter of Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, and his wife, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, was born at Rumpenheim Castle (French: Château de Rumpenheim, German: Rumpenheimer Schloss), Kassel, Hesse. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of George II of Great Britain, her grandfather having married George II's daughter Mary. Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, her uncle's title was raised to Elector of Hesse ? whereby the entire Kassel branch of the Hesse dynasty gained an upward notch in hierarchy.
    Marriage

    On 7 May, in Kassel, and then, again, on 1 June 1818 at Buckingham Palace, Princess Augusta married her second cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, when she was 20 and he 44. Upon their marriage, Augusta gained the style HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children.

    From 1818 until the accession of Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers, George IV and William IV. In 1827 Augusta allowed that a new village, founded on 3 May 1827 and to be settled in the course of the cultivation and colonisation of the moorlands in the south of Bremervörde, would bear her name. On 19 June the administration of the Hanoveran High-Bailiwick of Stade informed the villagers that she had approved the chosen name Augustendorf for their municipality (since 1974 it is a component locality of Gnarrenburg). The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and later at St. James's Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge survived her husband by thirty-nine years, dying at the age of ninety-one.

    She was buried at St Anne's Church, Kew, but her remains were later transferred to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

    25 July 1797 ? 7 May 1818: Her Serene Highness Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse[2]
    7 May 1818 ? 6 April 1889: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge

    Ancestry
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    Issue

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children:
    Name Birth Death Notes
    Prince George, Duke of Cambridge 26 March 1819 17 March 1904 illegally married, 1847, Sarah Louisa Fairbrother; had issue
    Princess Augusta of Cambridge 19 July 1822 4 December 1916 married, 1843, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; had issue
    Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge 27 November 1833 27 October 1897 married, 1866, Francis, Duke of Teck; had issue, including Mary of Teck, wife of George V

    Auguste married Adolphus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Cambridge 7 May 1818, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. Adolphus was born 24 Feb 1774, Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom; was christened 24 Feb 1774, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom; died 8 Jul 1850, Kew, London, England, United Kingdom; was buried 17 Jul 1850, St. George's Chapel Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England . [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 5. Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge  Descendancy chart to this point was born 27 Nov 1833, Hanover, Prussia, Germany; died 27 Oct 1897, White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, England; was buried 3 Nov 1897, St.George Chapel Cemetery Windsor, Berkshire, England.