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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 11

Documents
King George I
1685 (13 June) folio A.L.S; from Trakovice, "Monsieur. Monsieur de Falquenhan n’a pas menqué de me faire tenir les deus lettres que Vostre Altesse à prise la paine de m’écrire, sed aneque une joy tres sensible, que je y ay apris toutes les bontés quelle à bien voulu me faire connaitre, je souhaite passionnement de pouvoir contribuér sette campagne par mais services à l’ogmentation de sa gloire & de la rendre entirement persuadée que personne n’est plus le tres aquis serviteur de Vostre Altesse que George Louis". An extremely early letter from him, written as a young officer in the Turkish War. Some slight stains but thought to be the earliest surviving letter written by him. Photo

George Louis (1660 – 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698. He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1683, George and his brother, Frederick Augustus, served in the Great Turkish War at the Battle of Vienna. His father, Ernest Augustus died on 23 January 1698 leaving all of his territories to George with the exception of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück.

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