George I

by Timothy C.W. Blanning

Book Overview

George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest. Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then the sovereign of three kingdoms (England, Ireland and Scotland). In these new dominions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241380448
• ISBN13: 9780241380444
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 136 Pages