Note 37 — LETTER IV.

The Branch of Brunswic-Bevern is descended from Henry de Danneberg, eldest Son of Duke Ernest, Head of the Brunswic Family. Henry left two Sons; the youngest of whom, Augustus of Wolfembuttle, had three Sons who form'd three Branches, Brunswic, Wolfembuttle, and Bevern. The two first were united in Anthony-Ulric. Ferdinand-Albert I. Chief of the Line of Bevern, left five Sons and a Daughter. Three of his Sons are dead; of whom the Eldest lost his life at the Battle of Schellenburg, in 1704; the Third died in 1706, when he was Provost of St. Blaise of Brunswic; as did the Fifth also, in 1706, at the Battle of Turin. There remain two Sons, viz. Duke Ferdinand-Albert II. and Duke Ernest-Ferdinand.