Frederick Francis IV
Frederick Francis IV | |
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Frederick Francis III | |
Successor | Monarchy abolished |
Born | Palermo, Kingdom of Italy | 9 April 1882
Died | 17 November 1945 Flensburg, Germany | (aged 63)
Spouse |
Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland (m. 1904) |
Frederick Francis III | |
Mother | Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia |
Frederick Francis IV (Friedrich Franz Michael; 9 April 1882 – 17 November 1945) was the last
Early life
Born on 9 April 1882, Duke Frederick Francis IV was the son of
Frederick Francis was one year old when he became the hereditary grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the death of his grandfather
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis IV succeeded his father as Grand Duke upon his death on 10 April 1897. He had just turned fifteen the day before. As he was a teenager, due to his minority, the grand duchy was governed by his uncle Duke Johann Albrecht as regent. Frederick Francis's mother, Grand Duchess Anastasia preferred to remain in France while he continued the long preparation to eventually assume the throne. The following year, his older sister, Alexandrine married the Danish Crown Prince (future King Christian X in 1912). His mother and younger sister Cecile visited him frequently in Dresden and during their stays, they would go out for long drives in a carriage and horses bought for him from Schwerin. In 1903, the young Grand Duke moved to Bonn, where he attended university and studied administration and law. Adolf Langfeld was appointed as his study advisor.
On 9 April 1901 Frederick Francis came of age, ending the regency and beginning his reign in Schwerin. He immediately began working on a reform of the constitution, but it failed in the face of opposition from parliament.
Marriage and issue
On 7 June 1904, Frederick Francis married
They had five children:
- Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick Francis (22 April 1910 – 31 July 2001)
- Prince Sigismund of Prussia
- Duchess Olga (1916–1917)
- Duchess Thyra (18 June 1919 – 27 September 1981)
- Duchess Anastasia (11 November 1922 – 25 January 1979) married Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Abdication
Following the 1918 suicide of Grand Duke
After his abdication, he was initially not allowed to live in Mecklenburg and had to move to Denmark. A year later, he was permitted to return. He recovered some of his former properties and occupied some of his former homes. Frederick Francis died on 17 November 1945 in Flensburg after being arrested by No6 RAF Security section on 9 November 1945. He was succeeded as head of the grand ducal house by his son Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Franz.[4]
Honours
- German decorations[5]
- Mecklenburg:
- Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Collar and Crown in Ore
- Grand Cross of the Griffon
- Memorial Medal for Grand Duke Frederick Francis III
- Commemorative Medal for the Battle of Loigny-Poupry
- Baden:
- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1902[6]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Berthold the First
- Knight of St. Hubert, 1911[7]
- Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
- Hanoverian Royal Family:
- Knight of St. George
- Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
- Grand Cross of the Order of Ernst August
- Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 6 June 1905[8]
- Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Collar and Golden Crown
- Prussia:
- Knight of the Black Eagle, 11 June 1898; with Collar, 17 January 1902[9]
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
- Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, with Collar
- Commander of Honour of the Johanniter Order[10]
- Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Classes
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1897[11]
- Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown, 1900[12]
- Foreign decorations[5]
- Denmark:[13]
- Knight of the Elephant, 3 August 1897
- Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 4 February 1906
- King Christian IX Centenary Medal
- Siam: Knight of the Order of the Royal House of Chakri, with Collar, 2 April 1902[14]
- Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1904[15]
- Bulgaria:
- Grand Cross of St. Alexander
- Knight of Saints Cyril and Methodius[10]
- Netherlands:
- Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion
- 1901 Wedding Medal of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Russian Empire:
- Knight of St. Andrew[10]
- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
- Knight of the White Eagle
- Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
- Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class
- Sweden: Knight of the Seraphim, 21 May 1935[16]
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Notes
- ^ a b c d Beéche & Hall, Apapa: Christian IX of Denmark and his Descendants, p. 242
- ^ a b Zeepvat, The Other Anastasia, p. 5
- ^ Beéche & Hall, Apapa: Christian IX of Denmark and his Descendants, p. 243
- ^ a b House laws of Mecklenburg
- ^ a b Grossherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staatskalendar, 1908, p. 1
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 41
- ^ Hof- und - Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern (1914), "Königliche Orden". p. 9
- ^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 6 – via hathitrust.org
- ^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), Berlin, 1895, pp. 5(i), 5 – via hathitrust.org
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c Justus Perthes, Almanach de Gotha (1922) p. 64
- ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach Archived 6 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine (1900), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 17
- ^ Sachsen (1901). "Königlich Orden". Staatshandbuch für den Königreich Sachsen: 1901. Dresden: Heinrich. p. 5 – via hathitrust.org.
- ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1943) [1st pub.:1801]. Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1943 [State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1943] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. p. 16. Retrieved 24 December 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
- Royal Thai Government Gazette (in Thai), 6 June 1902, archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016, retrieved 8 May 2019
- ^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1940, pp. 903–904, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
References
- Beéche, Arturo and Hall, Coryne. Apapa: Christian IX of Denmark and his Descendants. Eurohistory.com, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9854603-4-1
- Zeepvat, Charlotte. The other Anastasia: A woman who loved and who lived. Royalty Digest Quarterly. N2 2006. ISSN 1653-5219.