Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Spouse(s)	Eleonore Charlotte of Courland
Noble family	House of Guelph
Father	Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Mother	Christine of Hesse-Eschwege
Born	(1682-03-04)4 March 1682 Osterholz
Died	14 April 1746(1746-04-14) (aged 64) Brunswick

Ernest Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (4 March 1682 in Osterholz – 14 April 1746 in Brunswick) was a titular Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg. He was Prince of Brunswick-Bevern and founder of the younger Brunswick-Bevern line.

Life

He was born in 1682 as the fifth son of Duke Ferdinand Albert I of Brunswick-Bevern and his wife, Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Eschwege. On 1 May 1706, he became a colonel in the Prussian army. In December of that year he succeeded his twin brother, Ferdinand Christian (d. 1706) as provost of the chapters of St. Blaise and St. Cyriakus in Brunswick.

On 1 March 1735, his elder brother, Duke Ferdinand Albert II of Brunswick-Bevern inherited Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Ferdinand Albert II then gave Brunswick-Bevern to Ernest Ferdinand as an apanage.

Ernest Ferdinand died in Brunswick in 1746. He was the founder of the younger Brunswick-Bevern line, which died out with the death of his son Frederick Charles Ferdinand in 1809

Marriage and issue

Eleonore Charlotte of Courland (1686-1748)

On 4 August 1714, he married Eleonore Charlotte of Courland (1686-1748), daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, with whom he had thirteen children:

August William (1715-1781)
Christine Sophie (1717-1779), married Margrave Frederick Ernest of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1703-1762)
Frederica (1719-1772)
George Louis (1721-1747), father of Danish courtesan Støvlet-Cathrine Benthagen
Ernestine (1721)
George Frederick (1723-1766)
Amalia (1724-1726)
Charles William (1725)
Frederick August (1726-1729)
Anne Marie (1728-1754)
Frederick Charles Ferdinand (1729-1809), Danish Marshal
John Charles (1731-1732)

Ancestors

Ancestors of Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

16. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

8. Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

17. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

4. Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

18. Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

9. Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg

19. Sibylle of Saxony

2. Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

20. John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg

10. John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg

21. Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

5. Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg

22. Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg

11. Margaret Elisabeth of Mecklenburg

23. Elisabeth of Sweden

1. Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

24. William IV, Landgrave of Hesse

12. Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

25. Sabine of Württemberg

6. Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege

26. John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen

13. Countess Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg

27. Countess Magdalena of Waldeck

3. Christine of Hesse-Eschwege

28. John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

14. John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg

29. Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

7. Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken

30. Charles IX of Sweden

15. Catherine of Sweden

31. Maria of Palatinate-Simmern

References

Christof Römer (ed.): Braunschweig-Bevern. Ein Fürstenhaus als europäische Dynastie, 1667–1884, Brunswick State Museum, Brunswick, 1997, p. 57–58
Ferdinand Spehr (1877), "Ernst Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig-Bevern", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 6, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 261–

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Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg House of Guelph Born: 4 March 1682 Died: 14 April 1746
Preceded by Ferdinand Albert I	Duke of Brunswick-Bevern 1735-1746	Succeeded by August William

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