Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt (20 August 1752 – 22 May 1782) was a member of the House of Hesse and by marriage a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Princess Friederike
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
Born(1752-08-20)20 August 1752
Darmstadt, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire
Died22 May 1782(1782-05-22) (aged 29)
Hanover, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse
Issue
Names
Friederike Caroline Luise
HouseHesse-Darmstadt
FatherPrince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
MotherCountess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg

Life

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Friederike was born in Darmstadt, the eldest daughter of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, second son of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and his wife, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg.

Friederike married Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on 18 September 1768 in Darmstadt.[1] After her death, Charles married her younger sister Charlotte in 1784.

Friederike died in 1782 in Hanover (where Charles was field marshal of the household brigade), three days after giving birth to her tenth child, Augusta, who lived just one day. Friederike is buried in the royal crypt of the church of St. John the Baptist in Mirow.

Issue

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Friederike and Charles had ten children between 1769 and 1782, five of whom survived to adulthood.

Friederike is the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of Harald V of Norway (via Louise), Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (also via Louise), Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (via Charlotte Georgine), and Frederik X of Denmark (via Frederica).

 
Princess Frederica Louisa Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Huberty, Michel; Alain Giraud; F. et B. Magdelaine (1945). L'Allemagne Dynastique, Tome VI : Bade-Mecklembourg. A. Giraud. p. 211. ISBN 978-2-901138-06-8.
  2. ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 70.