Editing George I of Great Britain (section)

==Issue and mistresses==
[[File:Melusine von der Schulenburg - Kloster Barsinghausen..png|thumb|[[Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal]], George's mistress]]
[[File:Charlotte Sophia von Platen-Hallermund, Countess of Darlington.jpg|thumb|[[Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington]], George's half-sister]]

===Issue===
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!Name!! Birth!! Death!!Marriage
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|colspan=4|'''By his wife, [[Sophia Dorothea of Celle]]:'''
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|[[George II of Great Britain]]||9 November 1683||25 October 1760||Married 1705 [[Caroline of Ansbach]]; had issue
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|[[Sophia Dorothea of Hanover]]||26 March 1687||28 June 1757||Married 1706 Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg (later [[Frederick William I of Prussia]]); had issue
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|colspan=4|'''By his mistress, [[Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal|Melusine von der Schulenburg]]:'''
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|(Anna) Louise Sophia von der Schulenburg||January 1692||1773||Married 1707 Ernst August Philipp von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (divorced before 1714);<ref>Hatton, p. 411.</ref><br>created Countess of Delitz by [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]], in 1722<ref name="kilburn">Kilburn, Matthew (2004; online edition January 2008) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24834 "Schulenburg, (Ehrengard) Melusine von der, suo jure duchess of Kendal and suo jure duchess of Munster (1667–1743)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/24834}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
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|[[Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham|(Petronilla) Melusina von der Schulenburg]]||1693||1778||Created Countess of Walsingham for life; married 1733 [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]]; no issue<ref>[[John Cannon (historian)|Cannon, John]] (2004; online edition September 2012) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26255 "Petronilla Melusina Stanhope, suo jure countess of Walsingham, and countess of Chesterfield (1693–1778)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/24835}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
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|Margarethe Gertrud von Oeynhausen||1701||1726||Married 1722 [[Albrecht Wolfgang, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe]]<ref name=kilburn/>
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|colspan=4|<small>Dates in this table are New Style.</small>
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=== Mistresses ===
In addition to Melusine von der Schulenburg, three other women were said to be George's [[Mistress (lover)|mistresses]]:<ref name="beaucaire">{{Cite book |last=Beaucaire |first=Charles-Prosper-Maurice Horric de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hGwIAAAAQAAJ |title=Une mésalliance dans la maison de Brunswick (1665–1725): Eléonore Desmier d'Oldbreuze, duchesse de Zell |date=1884 |publisher=H. Oudin |page=128 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="cp" />

# Leonora von Meyseburg-Züschen, widow of a [[Chamberlain (office)|Chamberlain]] at the court of Hanover, and secondly married to [[Lieutenant general|Lieutenant-General]] de Weyhe. Leonore was the sister of [[Clara Elisabeth von Platen|Clara Elisabeth von Meyseburg-Züschen, Countess von Platen]], who had been the mistress of George I's father, [[Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover]].<ref name="cp">{{Cite book |last=Cokayne |first=George E. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210885/page/n121/mode/2up |title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant |publisher=St Catherine Press |year=1910 |volume=7 |location=London |pages=111–112}}</ref>
# [[Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington|Sophia Charlotte von Platen, later Countess of Darlington]] (1673 – 20 April 1725), shown by [[Ragnhild Hatton]] in 1978 to have been George's half-sister and not his mistress.<ref name=Hatton132136/>
# Baroness Sophie Caroline Eva Antoinette von Offeln (2 November 1669 – 23 January 1726),<ref name="beaucaire" /> known as the "Young Countess von Platen", she married Count Ernst August von Platen, the brother of Sophia Charlotte, in 1697.<ref name="cp" />