Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
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| Charles Louis | |||||
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| Hereditary Prince of Baden | |||||
 Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden | |||||
| Born | 14 February 1755 Karlsruhe Palace, Karlsruhe | ||||
| Died | 16 December 1801 (aged 46) Arboga | ||||
| Burial | Schlosskirche St. Michael, Pforzheim | ||||
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| Issue | Princess Amalie Caroline, Queen of Bavaria Elizabeth Alexeievna, Empress of Russia Frederica, Queen of Sweden Marie, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Prince Charles Frederick Charles, Grand Duke of Baden Wilhelmine, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine | ||||
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| House | Zähringen | ||||
| Father | Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden | ||||
| Mother | Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||
Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (14 February 1755 – 16 December 1801) was heir apparent of the Margraviate of Baden.
Early life and family
Born in
Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1723 - 8 April 1783), the daughter of Landgrave Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
.
He was an ancestor of
Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Charles III of the United Kingdom
, among others.
Marriage and issue
On 15 July 1774, Charles Louis married his first cousin
Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (20 June 1754 – 21 July 1832). She was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
.
They had eight children:
- Princess Amalie of Baden (13 July 1776 – 26 October 1823)
- Elector of Bavaria, and in 1804 King of Bavaria(her titles accordingly being Duchess, then Electress, then Queen).
- Princess Louise of Baden (24 January 1779 – 16 May 1826); married on 9 October 1793 Tsar Alexander I of Russia (23 December 1777 – 1 December 1825).
- Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. They divorced in 1812.
- Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick(9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815).
- Prince Charles Frederick of Baden (13 September 1784 – 1 March 1785); died prior to succeeding.
- Monaco, and two branches of the House of Habsburg.
- Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Works of history mention that his children succeeded well in marriage market and that the Hereditary Prince was the force behind that. At the time of his death in Arboga, Sweden (which occurred during the visit to his fourth daughter, the Queen of Sweden), two of his other daughters were, respectively, Electress of Bavaria and the newly ascended Empress of Russia.
Ancestry
| Ancestors of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden John William Friso, Prince of Orange | |||||||||||||||
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| 5. Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz | |||||||||||||||
| 11. Princess Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel | |||||||||||||||
| 1. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden | |||||||||||||||
| 12. Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt | |||||||||||||||
| 13. Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach | |||||||||||||||
| 3. Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt | |||||||||||||||
| 14. Johann Reinhard III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg | |||||||||||||||
| 7. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg | |||||||||||||||
| 15. Princess Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach | |||||||||||||||
References
- ^ 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. 38.
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