Adelaide Paleotti - "Wife of George I"?

Started by Private User on Thursday, November 28, 2019
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11/28/2019 at 4:54 AM

I'd like to know where you got the idea that "Adelaide" (I presume you meant "Adelhida") Paleotti was married to George I. None of the resources I have (which are considerable) suggest that she was anything more to George than possibly a romantic dalliance. George is well documented as having married once: to his cousin Sophia Dorothea, when he was 22 years old. He remained married to her until 1694 when he had the marriage dissolved. George did have children by his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, with whom he remained until his death, but I am unaware of any suggestion that George married anyone else, including Paleotti. Do you have any such evidence?

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