In 1701, senior living representatives of lines passed over in favor of Sophia included Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, Louis Otto, Prince of Salm and his sisters, Anne Henriette, Princess of Condé, Benedicta Henrietta, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Sophia's sister Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate.

Before her marriage, Sophia, as the daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, was referred to as Sophie, Princess Palatine of the Rhine, or as Sophia of the Palatinate.

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He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Rhineland Palatinate.

Ernest Augustus's wife, Sophia of the Palatinate, was declared heiress of the throne of Great Britain ( then England and Scotland ) by the Act of Settlement of 1701, which decreed Roman Catholics could not accede to the throne.

Hamilton, being a descendant through his mother of the Scottish House of Stewart ( prior to their accession to the English throne ) was the senior-most claimant to the throne of Scotland in the event of that Scotland chose not to accept Sophia of the Palatinate as the Stuart heiress ( see Act of Security 1704 ).

This plan was strongly opposed by Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, the widow of Max Joseph, and Charles Theodore's cousin Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, the head of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld and next heir of Bavaria and the Palatinate.

She was the daughter of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover, and Sophia of the Palatinate.

Including Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern and Sophia of the Palatinate.

In 1658 he married Sophia of the Palatinate in Heidelberg.

In exchange for being freed from the obligation to marry Princess Sophia of the Palatinate, George William ceded Lüneburg to his younger brother Ernst August, settling for the smaller duchy of Celle and promising to remain unmarried so that he would produce no legitimate heir who might pose a challenge to his brother's claim.

) Sophia ’ s alumni are commonly referred to as " Sophians ;" they include the 79th Japanese Prime Minister of Japan, Morihiro Hosokawa, a number of politicians represented in the Diet of Japan and professors at institutions such as the University of Tokyo and Yale University.

) While it is commonly known as St. Sophia's, it is not named for any of the female saints of that name ( i. e., Sophia of Rome or Sophia the Martyr ); rather, the name comes from the Greek for wisdom ( Σoφíα, from whence we get words like philosophia or philosophy —" the love of wisdom "), and thus Novgorod's cathedral is dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, in imitation of the Hagia Sophia cathedral of Constantinople.

Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia ( as though it were named after Saint Sophia ), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom – the full name in Greek being, " Shrine of the Holy Wisdom of God ".

Some famous churches which are referred to as temples include Hagia Sophia, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, or the Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia.

Justinian's monuments in Istanbul include the domed churches of Hagia Sophia and Hagia Irene, but there is also an earlier, smaller church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus ( locally referred to as " Little Hagia Sophia "), which might have served as a model for both in that it combined the elements of a longitudinal basilica with those of a centralized building.

The name referred to the original Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and thus to claims of imperial prestige, authority and sovereignty.

The highest holy wisdom, Sophia, or Hagia Sophia, is cultivated by humility or meekness, akin to that personified by the Theotokos and all of the saints that came after her and Christ, collectively referred to as the ecclesia or church.

Sophia, as she is often referred to in Portugal, was born in Porto to a wealthy aristocratic family.

In the Season Four episode " Yes, We Have no Havanas ", Sophia and Blanche became rivals for the affections of an elderly Cuban gentleman named Fidel Santiago ( Henry Darrow ), and the two women traded particularly nasty insults with each other: Sophia called Blanche a " 50-year-old mattress ," and Blanche referred to Sophia as a " raisin in sneakers " and a " wrinkled old crow ".

Recognizing an opportunity to retrieve the light imprisoned in the darkness of Yaltabaoth and his world, Sophia and agents of the higher order, referred to variously as the ‘ plenoria ’ or the ‘ Epinoia ’, and later as the ‘ pleroma ’, devise a scheme.

as an esoteric wisdom doctrine, and said that the " Wisdom " referred to was " an emanation of the Divine principle " typified by "... some goddesses -- Metis, Neitha, Athena, the Gnostic Sophia ..."

Sophia Dorothea is sometimes referred to as the " princess of Ahlden.

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 ".

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 )

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

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.

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

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.

Sophia as dowager Electress of Hanover, around the time she was proclaimed heiress presumptive of the British crown.

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 ".

It is evident from these particulars that Abrasax was the name of the first of the 365 Archons, and accordingly stood below Sophia and Dynamis and their progenitors ; but his position is not expressly stated, so that the writer of the supplement to Tertullian had some excuse for confusing him with " the Supreme God.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

As an architect he is best known for replacing the old church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople in 532 ; his daring plans for the church strikingly displayed his knowledge.

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.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

The devil resides in this lower world, of which he is the prince, the Demiurge in the heavens ; his mother Sophia in the middle region, above the heavens and below the Pleroma.

Schliemann later admitted fabricating it ; at the time of the discovery Sophia was in fact with her family in Athens, following the death of her father.

Raymond Edler, an American university student studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, took up kickboxing and won the AJKC middleweight title in 1972 ; he was the first non-Thai to be officially ranked in the sport of Thai boxing, when in 1972 Rajadamnern ranked him no.

Examples include the font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham and also the font in the basilica of St. Sophia, Constantinople, the font of St. Stephen d ' Egres, Paris ; at St. Menin's Abbey, Orléans ; at Dulwich College ; and at the following churches: Worlingworth ( Suffolk ), Harlow ( Essex ), Knapton ( Norfolk ), St Martin, Ludgate ( London ), and Hadleigh ( Suffolk ).

The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 granted the right of British nationality to Sophia's non-Roman Catholic descendants ; those who had obtained the right to British citizenship via this Act at any time before its repeal by the British Nationality Act 1948 retain this lawful right today.

Sophia of Hanover, From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain ; London: Peter Owen, 2010

They have in common the place in the work of creation assigned to the female principle, the conception of the Deity ; the ignorance of the rulers of this lower world with regard to the Supreme Power ; the descent of the female ( Sophia ) into the lower regions, and her inability to return.

She had five children: Diana ( 1815 ), fathered by Robert ; and Thomas who died shortly after birth ; Peter ( 1821 ); Elizabeth ( 1825 ); and Sophia ( ca.