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H.M.
Ernest Augustus I
King of Hanover

1771-1851

  
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

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Index of Reigns & Peerages
       
  full name:   Ernest Augustus
  birth: 1771.06.05 at Buckingham Palace, London
  father:   George III William Frederick, King of Great Britain
  mother:   Queen Charlotte-Sophia
  marriage: 1815.08.29 Frederica, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
at Carlton House, London
  children: 1817 Frederica
    1818 daughter
    1819 George V, King of Hanover
    1820? George FitzErnest (d. 1828)
  accession:    
  coronation: 1837.06.20  
  death: 1851.11.18 at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover

(buried: Chapel of Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover)
       
       
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
   
    Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  1799 Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh
  1837 King of Hanover
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
  1801 KG
   
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
   
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
 
1801.03.28 Colonel, 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) [to 1827]
1827.01.22 Colonel, Royal Horse Guards [to 1830]
     
     
   Military Service
 
1813.11.26 Field-Marshal
   
   Other Military Connections
 
   
   
 
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