Chapter XXXII: Appendix

LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED, AND BOOKS
TO WHICH REFERENCE HAS BEEN MADE.

UNPUBLISHED MSS.

_The Correspondence of Princess Sophie Dorothea and Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck, 1691-1693_ (in French). Preserved in the University Library of Lund, Sweden.

_The Despatches and Correspondence of Sir William Dutton Colt, Envoy-Extraordinary to the Princes of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1689-1693._ In the State Paper Office, London.

_The Despatches and Correspondence of Mr. Cresset (who succeeded Sir W. D. Colt at Hanover) and his Secretaries, 1693-1702._ In the State Paper Office, London.

_The Despatches of Mr. Poley (who succeeded Mr. Cresset at Hanover), 1705._ In the State Paper Office, London.

_Sundry Letters of Mr. Stepney, sometime British Envoy to the Court of Dresden, 1694-1695._ In the State Paper Office, London.

_Sundry Letters and Papers_ (in French and German), specified elsewhere. Preserved in the Royal Archives and Library, Hanover, and at Brunswick and Dresden.

SOME PUBLISHED WORKS.

_Die Herzogin von Ahlden, Stammutter der Königlichen Häuser Hannover und Preussen._ Leipzig, 1852. Now out of print. Written anonymously by Count Schulenburg-Klosterrode.

_Die Prinzessin von Ahlden._ By Dr. Adolph Köcher. Two articles in _Sybel’s Historische Zeitschrift_, 1882, vol. xlviii.

_Römischen Octavia_, 1707, vol. vi. By Duke Antony Ulrich of Wolfenbüttel.

_The Magazine of the Historical Association of Lower Saxony_, 1879.

_Sophie Dorothea, Prinzessin von Ahlden und Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover._ By A. F. H. Schaumann. Hanover, 1879.

_Briefe der Herzogin von Orleans, Elizabeth Charlotte, an die Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover._

_Briefe der Prinzessin Elizabeth Charlotte von Orleans, 1676-1722._

_Memoiren der Herzogin Sophie, nachmals Kurfürstin von Hannover._ Dr. Adolph Köcher. Leipzig, 1879.

_Memoires du règne de George I._ “Anon.” The Hague, 1729.

_Letters with Varied Contents._ Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1772.

_Geschichte der Herzogin von Ahlden._ Copenhagen, 1786.

_Short Narrative of My Fate and Imprisonment._ Hamburg, 1840. Edited by “W. L. Mollor” (Major Müller).

This purports to be an autobiography written by the Princess Sophie
Dorothea, but it is spurious. Yet the deeds and letters quoted show
that the author had access to genuine documents, and show the writer
to be Major Müller, librarian to the late Duke of Cambridge, Regent of
Hanover.

_Memoirs of Sophie Dorothea._ Two vols. London, 1845. Out of print. Translated into the German also. Written anonymously. [By Major Müller, sometime librarian to the late Duke of Cambridge.]

This covers much the same ground as the _Short Narrative_, and also
contains some authentic documents and papers. Like the _Short
Narrative_ it is evidently based on Duke Antony Ulrich’s _Octavia_.
But the “Diary of Conversations,” in vol. ii., purporting to be
written by Sophie Dorothea, is undoubtedly spurious.

_Aurora Königsmarck._ By Professor W. F. Palmbald. Six vols. Translated from the Swedish into the German. Leipzig, 1853. Out of print.

_Memoirs of Aurora von Königsmarck._ By Cramer.

An article on _Fresh Contributions to the History of the Hanoverian Princess Sophie Dorothea_. By Edward Bodemann.

_Histoire Secrette de la Duchesse d’Hanover, Épouse de Georges Premier._ London, 1732. Ascribed to Baron von Poëllnitz (some say erroneously).

_The Electress Sophia._ Article in _The Quarterly Review_, vol. 161.

_Eléonore d’Olbreuse._ By the Baroness von Amstel. Article in _Nineteenth Century_, 1898.

INDEX.

A

Act of Settlement, 100
Ahlden, prisoner of, 388
— Author’s notes on, 392
Alte Palais at Hanover, 60
Amalie Wilhelmina, Countess Lewenhaupt, 82
Angelica d’Olbreuse, 11
Anne, Princess of York, 38
— Queen of England, 411
— death of, 420
Antony Ulrich, Duke of Wolfenbüttel, 1
— _Roman Octavia_, 417
Appendix, 445
Arenswald, Madame von, 396
Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, 1
— Frederick of Wolfenbüttel, 21
— betrothed to Sophie Dorothea, 22
— death of, 25
— the Strong (Elector of Saxony), 89
— and Aurora Königsmarck, 369
Aurora Königsmarck, 82
— and Augustus the Strong, 369
Authorities quoted, 445
Author’s notes on Ahlden, 392

B

Bar, Count de, 425
Bergest, Count Sigismund, 396
Berlin, 250
Bernstorff, Prime Minister of Celle, 33
Bill of Succession, 41
Bohemia, Queen of, 7
Books of reference, 445
Borosky, 86
Bothmer, Charles Augustus von, 396
Boyne, battle of the, 109
Brandenburg, Elector of, 69
— Electress of, 69
— death of, 414
Breda, 7
Brockhausen, the tryst at, 256
Brunswick, 111
Buccolini, Lucas (Bucco or Buccow), 3
— Signora, 3
Bull-baiting, 83
Bülow, Minister of Celle, 374
Bussche, Councillor, 30
— marriage of, 31
— Madame, Mistress of George Louis, 32
— banished from Hanover, 59
— George von, 396

C

Cambridge and Prince George Louis, 42
Carlsbad, 109
Caroline, Consort of George IV., 1
— of Anspach, marriage of, 415
Catherine of Braganza, 38
Celle, Castle of, 13
Charleroy, 39
Charles II. of England, 4
Charles, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 108
— death of, 108
Christian Louis, Duke of Celle, 1
Christian, Duke of Celle, 9
Coalition against Louis XIV., 98
Colt, Sir William Dutton, 101
Consarbrück, 39
Correspondence between Sophie Dorothea and
Königsmarck, 174
— history and authenticity of the, 118
Correspondence, theory of key to cypher, 126
— between Knesebeck and Königsmarck, 198
Court mistresses, 32
Cresset, envoy at Hanover, 354
Crossing the Rubicon, 156

D

Danes, campaign against, 277
Darlington, Countess of, 426
Denmark, King of, 325
De Reuss, Comte, 11
De Tarente, Princess, 7
Dist, 243
D’Olbreuse, Angelica, 11
— Eléonore, 8
— Marquis, 8
Doubts and fears, 189

E

East Friesland, Princess-Dowager of, 160
Edict of Nantes, 7
Elector Palatine of the Rhenish Provinces, 4
Electors of the German Empire, 99
Eléonore d’Olbreuse, 7
— married to George William, 10
— Madame von Harburg, 10
— progress of, 13
— Countess of Wilhelmsburg, 19
— Duchess of Celle, 23
— will of, 412
— death of, 428
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 3
— Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans, 18
Epsdorff, 146
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1
Ernest Augustus betrothed to Sophia, 6
— married to Sophia, 6
— attempt to murder, 157

F

Flanders, campaign in, 150
Fortière, Seigneur de la, 371
Foubert’s Academy, 84
Frankfort Fair, 233
Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1
Frederick, Prince Palatine, ex-King of Bohemia, 3
— the Great of Prussia, 75
— Augustus of Saxony, 89
— Elector of Saxony, 329
— William, Crown Prince of Prussia, 416

G

Gadd, J. H., assistant-librarian at Lund, 122
Gardie, Count de la, 121
George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1
— Augustus of Hanover (George II.), birth of, 65
— reminiscences, 405
— attempt to see Sophie Dorothea, 406
— marriage of, 415
— Frederick, Elector of Saxony, 329
— Louis (George I.), birth of, 6
— goes a-wooing, 38
— disposition of, 39
— at the Court of Louis XIV., 39
— visit to England, 40
— betrothed to Sophie Dorothea, 49
— married to Sophie Dorothea, 58
— illness of, 150
— Elector of Hanover, 399
— Knight of the Garter, 409
— King of England, 421
— entry into London, 422
— death of, 441
— William, Duke of Hanover, 1
— betrothed to Sophia, 5
— wooing of Eléonore, 8
— Duke of Celle, 9
— married to Eléonore, 10
— fondness for George II., 405
— death of, 412
German Empire, Electors of, 99
Germany, Emperor of, 14
Ghent, 316
Gloucester, Duke of, 400
Glove, the embroidered, 107
Göhre, 146
Green, Mrs. Everett, 122

H

Hague, Congress at the, 112
Hamelin, Castle of, 158
Hanover, Court of, 59
— Alte Palais, 60
Harburg, Madame von, 10
Heidelberg, 5
Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, 1
Herrenhausen, 61
Hildebrand, Königsmarck’s secretary, 353
Hungary, campaign in, 326

I

Ilse, Abigail, 75
Ilten, General von, 72
— Madame von, 72

J

James I. of England, 3
— II. of England, 71
John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1

K

Kendal, Duchess of, 426
— Countess of Darlington, 426
Knesebeck, Eléonore von, 63
— arrest of, 358
— prisoner at Springe, 374
— examination of, 374
— removal to Schartzfels, 374
— escape of, 403
Köcher, Dr., 373
Königsmarck, Amalie Wilhelmina, 82
— Aurora, 82
— Count Carl John, 83
— trial of, 87
— death of, 88
— Count Philip Christopher, boyhood at Celle, 20
— in England, 26
— at Hanover, 82
— Colonel of Hanoverian Guards, 95
— and Countess Platen, 104
— in the Morea, 106
— return to Hanover, 115
— entertainment by, 115
— correspondence with Sophie Dorothea, 139
— sent to Sweden as envoy, 141
— returns from the war, 233
— at Dresden, 332
— murder of, 340
— burial of, 350
— discovery of body of, 443

L

Lambeque, camp at, 173
Lambeth manuscripts, 38
Lassaye, Marquis de, 72
Leibniz, Professor, 35
Leine Schloss at Hanover, 60
Leopold, Emperor, 98
Lewenhaupt, Countess of, 82
— Count, 82
Linden, battle of, 316
Lockier, Dean, 34
Loo, 408
Louis XIV., 28
— Defender of the Faith, 28
— European coalition against, 98
Ludemann, Bailiff of Ahlden, 425
Luisburg, 217
Lund, University of, 121
Luxemburg, French General, 172

M

Macclesfield, Lord, 409
Maestricht, 39
Malortie, Marshal von, 89
Mannheim, 98
Marlortie, Herr and Madame, 396
Marriage settlement and contract of Sophie Dorothea
and George Louis, 55
Mary, Princess of York, 38
Matilda, daughter of Henry II., 1
Maximilian, Prince of Hanover, 77
— intrigues of, 78
Meissenburg, Count Carl Philip von, 30
— Catherine Marie von, 30
— married to Bussche, 31
— Clara Elizabeth von, 30
— married to Platen, 31
Milan, 3
Moltke conspiracy, 156
— execution of, 174
Monplaisir, 67
Mons, siege and fall of, 113
Morea, the campaign in, 106

N

Namur, siege and fall of, 172
Naples, 72
Neerwinden, battle of, 316
Northumberland, Dowager-Countess of, 84

O

Ogle, Countess of, 84
Osnabrück, 30
— Court of, 30
Otho William, Count, 20
— death of, 92

P

Palmblad, Professor, 121
Passion, the dawn of, 139
Phillipsburg, siege of, 25
Platen, Countess, 31
— marriage of, 31
— opposed to Eléonore, 33
— mistress of Ernest Augustus, 32
— jealousy of, 68
— the power of, 70
— and Königsmarck, 90
— illness of, 391
— retirement to Monplaisir, 400
— death of, 414
Playing with fire, 94
Podevils, Marshal, 249
Poëllnitz (historian), 91
Poley, envoy to Celle, 413
Portsmouth, Duchess of, 30
Primogeniture, establishment of, 77
— opposition to, 78
Prisoner of Ahlden, 388
Prussia, Queen of, correspondence with Sophie
Dorothea, 425
— marriage scheme of, 429
Pyrmont, 19

Q

Querouaille, Louise de, 30

R

Ramel, Baron Hans, 120
Ratze, Marie, 398
Ratzeburg, 258
Reference, books of, 445
Retribution, 437
Reuss, Comte de, 11
— Countess de, 11
Rhine, campaign on the, 39
_Roman Octavia_, 417
Röohlitz, Countess von, 329
Royal mistresses, 331
Rudolph Augustus of Wolfenbüttel, 21
Rupert, Prince, 36
Ryswick, Peace of, 100

S

Sacrifice of Sophie Dorothea, 47
Sandys, Dr., 410
Saxe, Marshal de, 369
Saxony, Augustus, Elector of, 329
Schaumann, 373
Schulenburg, Ermengarda Melusina von, 78
— nickname of, 79
— Duchess of Kendal, 426
Schulenburg-Klosterrode, Count, 122
Sophia, Princess of Bohemia, 3
— betrothed to George William, 5
— betrothed to Ernest Augustus, 6
— married to Ernest Augustus, 6
— Electress of Hanover, genealogy of, 17
— moral character, 34
— and Madame Platen, 34
— and the throne of England, 36
— at Celle, 46
— death of, 420
— Charlotte, Princess of Hanover, 69
— Electress of Brandenburg, 69
Sophie Dorothea of Celle, genealogy of, 1
— birth of, 13
— legitimised, 19
— betrothed to Augustus Frederick of Wolfenbüttel,
22
— betrothed to George Louis of Hanover, 49
— disposition of, 54
— married to George Louis (George I.), 58
— entry into Hanover, 59
— birth of George Augustus, 65
— and Madame Platen, 66
— and Marquis de Lassaye, 72
— birth of Sophie Dorothea (Queen of Prussia), 74
— correspondence with Königsmarck, 174
Sophie Dorothea’s arrival at Ahlden, 362
— divorce of, 371
— prisoner at Ahlden, 392
— petitions of, 401
— return to Celle, 407
— return to Ahlden, 407
— literary labours, 424
— correspondence with Queen of Prussia, 425
— death of, 436
— burial of, 439
— curse of, 440
St. Denis, 39
Steinkirk, battle of, 204
Stepney, envoy at Dresden, 329
Stern, Lieutenant, 86

T

Thynne, Thomas, 85
— murder of, 86
Toland (historian), 410
Treves, siege of, 39

V

Venice, 70
Verona, siege of, 88
Victoria, Queen, 37
Vratz, Captain, 86

W

Westphalia, Treaty of, 1
Weyhe, General, 79
Wienhausen, 152
Wiesbaden, 217
Wilhelmsburg, 19
— Countess of, 19
William of Orange, 40
— and the throne of England, 100
— and the Prince of Wales, 409
Wisdom of serpents, 25
Witgenstein, Count, 366

Y

York, Princess Mary of, 40
— Princess Anne of, 38
— Duke of, 38

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Transcriber’s Note

Königsmarck’s name is printed several times without
the umlaut, and has been corrected.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have
been corrected, and are noted here. The references
are to the page and line in the original.

2.36 But, Mons[e]igneur Inserted.
11.42 Geo[gr/rg]e William was glad Transposed.
79.18 To do E[r]mengarda Melusina justice Inserted.
124.5 K[o/ö]nigsmarck’s Replaced.
124.40 Fr[aü/äu]lein Knesebeck Replaced.
146.36 Epsdorff and Göhre[.] Added.
162.8 K[o/ö]nigsmarck Replaced.
162.17 to have sounded K[o/ö]nigsmarck Replaced.
162.40 K[o/ö]nigsmarck Replaced.
225.20 you wrote from Eimbeck[.] Added.
269.20 the end of the week for Brockhausen.[’/”] Replaced.
315.18 Let us taste its delights.[”/’] Replaced.
448.8 Crossing the [r/R]ubicon Replaced.
448.39 Duke of Brunswick[-]Lüneburg Added.
449.42 Meissenbu[r]g, Count Carl Philip von, 30 Inserted.