Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
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Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg [-Güstrow] (26 February 1633 – 6 October 1695) was the last ruler of Mecklenburg-Güstrow from 1636 until his death and last Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg from 1636 to 1648.[1]
Life
Gustav Adolph was born at the ducal residence in
John Albert II and his third wife Eleonore Marie (1600–1657), daughter of Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg
.
As Gustav Adolph was a minor when his father died in 1636, his uncle Duke
Magdalene Sibylle, a daughter of Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp
. Their marriage produced eleven children:
- Johann, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (2 December 1655 – 6 February 1660).
- Eleonore (1 June 1657 – 24 February 1672).
- Marie (June 19, 1659 – 6 January 1701), married on 23 September 1684 to Duke Adolph Frederick IIof Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- Magdalene (5 July 1660 – 19 February 1702).
- Sophie (21 June 1662 – 1 June 1738), married on 6 December 1700 to Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels.
- Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern.
- Charles, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (18 November 1664 – 15 March 1688), married on 10 August 1687 to Marie Amalie of Brandenburg, a daughter of Elector Frederick William.
- Hedwig (12 January 1666 – 9 August 1735), married on 1 December 1686 to Duke August of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig.
- Louise (28 August 1667 – 15 March 1721), married on 5 December 1696 to King Frederick IV of Denmark.
- Elisabeth (3 September 1668 – 25 August 1738), married on 29 March 1692 to Duke Henry of Saxe-Merseburg-Spremberg.
- Augusta (27 December 1674 – 19 May 1756).
The death of the only surviving son, the Hereditary Prince
Adolphus Frederick II of Mecklenburg, who after the death of his father-in-law claimed the Güstrow heritage, but could not prevail against the ruling duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A younger daughter, Louise in 1695 married the Danish crown prince Frederick IV and in 1699 became queen consort of Denmark
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Gustav Adolph died in Güstrow at the age of 62. The subsequent inheritance conflict within the House of Mecklenburg was settled by the establishment of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1701.
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- ISBN 3-16-147191-1