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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 Melusine von der Schulenburg and Munster was a mistress of the Electoral Prince, George Ludwig, and bore him three illegitimate children. When George succeeded as King George I 1714, she moved with him to England. She was created the Duchess of Kendal.
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.
Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Duchess of Munster (25 December 1667 – 10 May 1743) was a long-time mistress to King George I of Great Britain. Early life. She was born at Emden in the Duchy of Magdeburg.
