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The term “Hanoverian Succession” is used when speaking of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. I'm wondering if someone knows the root/meaning of the word “Hanoverian”, since it doesn't seem to relate to words/figures associated with the socio-political atmosphere of late-17th Century England.
Upon the death of Queen Anne, the wife of Duke Ernest Augustus, Electress Sophia of Hanover would have become Queen as the nearest Protestant heir… she died a few weeks before Anne (her first cousin) and so Sophia's son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, became King when Anne died. Reigning as George I; first of the Hanoverian Line and successor to the Stuarts.
Ah, I see. After my first post I had read in my research that the Hanoverian succession occurred around 1715, which would have separated it a bit from the Glorious Revolution. This coincides with what you bring up.
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