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Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, suo jure Duchess of Kendal, suo jure Duchess of Munster (25 December 1667 – 10 May 1743) was a longtime mistress to King George I of Great Britain.
Melusine von der Schulenburg was born on December 25, 1667, in Emden, Electorate of Brandenburg, now part of Altenhausen in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
20 de jun. de 2022 · Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, known always as Melusine, was born in 1667 in the Duchy of Magdeburg, 100 miles east of Hanover. In 1690, Melusine travelled to the Brunswick-Lüneburg court to become a maid of honour in the household of Duchess Sophia of the Palatinate.
Ehrengard Melusina von der Schulenburg, duchess of Kendal (ā´rəngärt mālōōzē´nä fən dĕr shōō´lənbŏŏrkh), 1667–1743, German mistress of George I of England. She became his mistress at the Hanoverian court and followed him to England c.1714.
Ehrengard Melusina von der Schulenburg, known as Melusine, came to Great Britain in 1714 as the paramour of its newly crowned king, George I, the first in a succession of Hanoverian monarchs who would rule England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
12 de oct. de 2015 · Born in 1667 to the Schulenberg family, she was descended from the stock of old German nobility. She became George’s mistress when he was still hereditary heir to the Hanoverian electorate, a...
9 de may. de 2024 · Ehrengarde Melusina, duchess of Kendal (born December 25, 1667, Emden, Saxony—died May 10, 1743, Kendal House, Isleworth, Middlesex, England) was the mistress of the English king George I who had considerable political influence during his reign.
