Therefore Sophia sought revenge, and a secret pact was made between the dowager empress and the general Justinian, whom Tiberius had replaced the year before.

Having become a major-general in 1694, Macclesfield saw some service abroad, and in 1701 he was selected first commissioner for the investiture of the elector of Hanover ( afterwards King George I ) with the order of the Garter, on which occasion he also was charged to present a copy of the Act of Settlement to the dowager electress Sophia.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

Sophia of the Palatine, later Electress of HanoverPortrait by her sister Louise Hollandine, c. 1644

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

Under the Act of Settlement, male-preference primogeniture succession of an Anglican legitimate descendant of the Electress Sophia is automatic and immediate, neither depending on, nor waiting for, any proclamation.

* 1630 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony ( d. 1714 )

Sophia of the Palatinate ( commonly referred to as Sophia of Hanover ; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ) was the Electress of Hanover from 1692 to 1698.

Therefore, Sophia became Electress of Hanover, the title by which she is best-remembered.

Sophia, Princess Palatine, and Electress of Brunswick-Lüneburg

* June 8 – Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain ( b. 1630 )

To address the succession crisis and preclude a Catholic restoration, the Parliament of England enacted the Act of Settlement 1701, which provided that, failing the issue of Anne and of William III by any future marriage, the Crown of England and Ireland would go to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants.

Though both England and Scotland recognised Anne as their Queen, only the English Parliament had settled on Sophia, Electress of Hanover, as the heir.

George's mother, the Electress Sophia, died on 28 May 1714 at the age of 83.

The queen was the daughter of Dowager Electress Sophia of Hanover, and the sister of George, Elector of Hanover.

Dowager Electress Sophia called her " the most agreeable Princess in Germany ".

He was the heir apparent of his father's Electorate of Hanover and third-in-line to the British throne of his distant cousin Queen Anne, after his grandmother Dowager Electress Sophia and his father the Elector.

The succession of her husband's family to the British throne was still insecure, as Queen Anne's half-brother James Stuart contested the Hanoverian claim, and Queen Anne and Caroline's grandmother-in-law Dowager Electress Sophia had fallen out.

" In June 1714, Dowager Electress Sophia died in Caroline's arms at the age of 84, and Caroline's father-in-law became heir presumptive to Queen Anne.

His sister Electress Sophia was the mother of George I of Great Britain.

For instance, someone can find out what number Electress Sophia of Hanover would be on an ahnentafel of Peter Mark Andrew Phillips.

Thus, if we were to make an ahnentafel for Peter Phillips, Electress Sophia would be # 7233.

# Sophia, Electress of Hanover ( 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ); married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, had issue including King George I of Great Britain

Sophia of Hanover | Electress Sophia of Hanover ( 1630 – 1714 )

Elizabeth bore nine children who reached adulthood, of whom Sophia of Hanover was the youngest.

He was born in Berlin to Frederick I of Prussia and Sophia Charlotte of Hanover.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

Rather than return to her Roman Catholic brother James Francis Edward Stuart, the English Parliament decided that Sophia of Hanover and her descendants should succeed ( Act of Settlement 1701 ).

* 1714 – Sophia of Hanover ( b. 1630 )

* 1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia ( d. 1757 )

* 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia ( d. 1705 )

For her daughter, see Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ; For her grand-daughter, see Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

Dirk Van der Cruysse: Sophie de Hanovre, Memoires et Lettres de Voyage, Fayard Paris, 1990 ; also Sophia of Hanover: From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain, J. N.

Sophia became a friend and admirer of Gottfried Leibniz while he was librarian at the Court of Hanover.

A year later, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement 1701 declaring that, in the default of legitimate issue from Anne or William III, the crowns were to settle upon " the most excellent princess Sophia, electress and duchess-dowager of Hanover " and " the heirs of her body, being Protestant ".

Count Frederick III of Zollern was a loyal retainer of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI, and around 1185 he married Sophia of Raabs, the daughter of Conrad II, Burgrave of Nuremberg.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

When the Willem Sophia mine was opened around 1900, the town grew even more rapidly, absorbing old villages like Chèvremont.

The Sparks were on track to win game 2 of the series, but Silver Star Sophia Young made a turn around bank-shot with a second left on the clock to force the series to a deciding game three.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

When Isaac Hecker and, later, Sophia Ripley converted to Catholicism, a Protestant Brook Farmer complained, " We are beginning to see wooden crosses around and pictures of saints ... and I suspect that rosaries are rattling under aprons.

Many of the bodies were hung around the monastery where Princess Sophia and Eudoxia were confined for aiding the rebellion.

The book is told through her own point of view and although she mentions certain events concerning those around her, such as the controversy surrounding Francis ' decision to cast Sophia, in The Godfather Part III.

Partial list of companies ( January 2011: 1, 260 corporate names, and around 25, 911 jobs ) and institutions located within Sophia Antipolis:

Frederick Ward was the son of convict Michael Ward (" Indefatigable " 1815 ) and his wife Sophia, and was born in 1833 around the time his parents moved from Wilberforce, New South Wales to nearby Windsor.

During this period around Saint Sophia Cathedral were erected bell tower, monastery canteen, bakery, House of Metropolitan, western gates ( Zborovsky gates ), Monastic Inn, Brotherhood campus and bursa ( seminary ).

Sophia owned a tan bamboo handbag which became her personal trademark, as she carried the purse everywhere, even around the house ( including the bathroom ).

Although, Barnaby's friend who is working with him, claims that Sophia hangs around while they are working, hoping Barnaby will ask her out.

The earliest extant manuscripts of the Odes of Solomon date from around the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century: the Coptic Pistis Sophia, a Latin quote of a verse of Ode 19 by Lactantius, and the Greek text of Ode 11 in Papyrus Bodmer XI.

Sophia Magdalena is mostly known in Swedish history for the scandal created around the consummation of her marriage and the questioned legitimacy of her son.

The IEP Grenoble has a wide international outreach ( considering its small size ) with a hundred partner universities around the world, among which the University of Edinburgh, the University of California, Trinity College, Dublin, Kyoto University Tokyo University, Waseda University, Sophia University, Bologna University, the University of British Columbia and many others.

Since around 1270, the Duke openly began to lived with his mistress Sophia of Dyhrn, who bore him a son, Jarosław, who died in infancy.

The storyline revolves around a retired American private detective by the name of Gustave MacPherson, who is hired by the dark, mysterious Sophia Blake to track down the person who brutally murdered her sister and brother-in-law in the Orphée Hotel, in the chic District 8 ( Paris ).

The story revolves around the relationships between Diana, Sophia, Beatrice, and Edward.