Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover

The prince Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover ( Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich ), 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (born with Hanover the September 21st 1845 - deceased with Gmunden (Austria) the November 14th 1923) is the only son of king Georges V of Hanover (1819 - 1878) and of Marie of Saxony-Altenbourg.

Biography

“Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover” was the chief of the Maison of Hanover but never reigned, unlike his/her father the king Georges V of Hanover and his/her son “Ernest-Auguste III of Hanover” which reached in an effective way the ducal throne of Brunswick in 1913. “Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover” became also the chief of the whole of the Maison of Brunswick (the Maison of Hanover is a branch junior by the Maison of Brunswick).

Ernest-Auguste became the crown prince to the Royaume of Hanover (member of the German Confédération) of 1851 (when his/her father became king de Hanovre) and until in 1866 remained it (when the kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia after the Guerre austro-Prussian).

When the reigning duke Guillaume VIII of Brunswick died in 1884, “Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover” inherited his personal possessions, but it could not inherit the duchy of Brunswick because of opposition of Prussia whereas the successional law of the duchy of Brunswick indicated it: it resulted from it a constitutional crisis in Brunswick (vacancy of the ducal throne) which was untied only with the accession with the ducal throne of Ernest-Auguste III of Hanover. Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover renonça then to its rights on the duchy of Brunswick in favor of his/her son Ernest-Auguste III of Hanover.

3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in 1878 (with died of his/her father) and British prince of the House of Hanover, Ernest-Auguste had all his confiscated titles and British honors when it chooses the camp of Germany during the First World War.

Marriage and descent

Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover married the December 22nd 1878 with Copenhagen the Thyra princess of Denmark (1853 - 1933), girl of Christian IX and Louise de Hesse-Cassel. From this union were born :

Louise of Hanover (1879 - 1948), married Maximilien Margrave de Bade in 1900 ;
George of Hanover (1880 - 1912), count d' Armagh ;
Alexandra of Hanover (1882 - 1963), married in 1904 Frederic-François IV of Mecklembourg-Schwerin;
Olga of Hanover (1884 - 1958) ;
Ernest-Auguste III of Hanover (1887 - 1953), reigning duke of Brunswick of 1913 with 1918

Genealogy

Ernest-Auguste belongs to the Maison of Hanover resulting from the House of Brunswick (Brunswick-Lüneburg), itself resulting from the downward Maison of Este of the dukes of Toscane.

Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover is ascending current chief of the House of Hanover the prince Ernest-Auguste of Hanover (1954-) (Ernest-Auguste V of Hanover).

See too

Ernest-Auguste Ier of Hanover
House of Este, House of Brunswick, House of Hanover
Kingdom of Hanover
Brunswick-Lunebourg
German Confederation
War austro-Prussian of 1866
the Duchy of Brunswick within the German Empire:

Bibiography

Ernest-Auguste II of Hanover carries the number Brunswick XXVI 1 in the work dynastic Germany volume III: Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg , Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud and F. and B. Magdelaine, MCMLXXXI (= 1981), at one of the authors, Perreux, 607 pages, ISBN 2-901138-03-9

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