Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
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Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |||||
Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Holy Roman Empire | |||||
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Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg |
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.
Life
Friederike was born in
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
Friederike and Charles had ten children between 1769 and 1782, six of whom survived to adulthood.
Friederike is the most recent common
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Ancestry
Ancestors of Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim | | ||||||||||||
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15. Countess Charlotte Sibylle of Ahlefeldt | |||||||||||||
References
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- ISBN 978-2-901138-06-8.
- ^ 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.