Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

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Frederick
Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar
Religion	Lutheranism

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (29 April 1763 in Hildburghausen – 29 September 1834 in Altenburg), was duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834).

Biography

He was the youngest child, but only son, of

.

Succession

Frederick succeeded his father Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1780, when only seventeen years old; because of this, his great grand uncle, the prince

, assumed the regency on his behalf, this regency only ended in 1787 at the death of Prince Joseph.

Until 1806 he was subject to the restrictions of the imperial debit commission, which had placed the duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen under official administration, because of his predecessors' dissolute financial policy. In 1806 Frederick joined the Confederation of the Rhine, and in 1815 the German Confederation, under whose guarantee he gave 1818 the duchy a new basic condition.

Marriage and issue

In

. Two of her sisters later became the queens of Prussia and Hanover, respectively. They had twelve children:

1. Joseph Georg Karl Frederick (b. Hildburghausen, 12 June 1786 – d. Hildburghausen, 30 July 1786).
2. Katharina Charlotte Georgine Fredericka Sofie Therese (b. Hildburghausen, 17 June 1787 – d. Bamberg, 12 December 1847), married on 28 September 1805 to Prince Paul of Württemberg.
3. Caroline Auguste (b. and d. Hildburghausen, 29 July 1788).
4. Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
   (b. Hildburghausen, 27 August 1789 – d. Altenburg, 25 November 1868).
5. Fredericke Luise Marie Caroline Auguste Christiane (b. Hildburghausen, 18 January 1791 – d. Hildburghausen, 25 March 1791).
6. Therese Charlotte Luise Friederike Amalie (b. Hildburghausen, 8 July 1792 – d. Munich, 26 October 1854), married on 12 October 1810 to King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
7. Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau
   .
8. Franz Frederick Karl Ludwig Georg Heinrich (b. Hildburghausen, 13 April 1795 – d. Hildburghausen, 28 May 1800).
9. Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (b. Hildburghausen, 24 July 1796 – d. Hummelshain, 3 August 1853).
10. Frederick Wilhelm Karl Joseph Ludwig Georg (b. Hildburghausen, 4 October 1801 – d. Altenburg, 1 July 1870).
11. Maximilian Karl Adolf Heinrich (b. Hildburghausen, 19 February 1803 – d. Hildburghausen, 29 March 1803).
12. Eduard Karl Wilhelm Christian (b. Hildburghausen, 3 July 1804 – d. Munich, 16 May 1852).

Frederick was considered popular and intelligent. During his reign, along with his beautiful wife, Charlotte, cultural life in the small town reached its zenith. So many poets and artists spent their time there that Hildburghausen was nicknamed "Klein-Weimar" (Little Weimar). When the last duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg died without issue in 1825, the other branches of the house decided on a rearrangement of the Ernestine duchies. On 12 November 1826, Frederick became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, to which he gave a first Basic Law in the year 1831; in exchange, he ceded Saxe-Hildburghausen to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Ancestry

References

External links

• Media related to Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen at Wikimedia Commons

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg House of Wettin Born: 29 April 1763 Died: 29 September 1834
Preceded by Ernst Frederick III	Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen 1780–1826	became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Preceded by Frederick IV as Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg	Duke of Saxe-Altenburg 1826–1834	Succeeded by Joseph