Friederike von Württemberg
Friederike Elisabeth Amalie Auguste von Württemberg (born July 27, 1765 in Treptow an der Rega ; † November 24, 1785 in Eutin ) was a Württemberg princess and later the wife of Peter Friedrich Ludwig , Prince of Holstein-Gottorp.
Life
She was the seventh child of Duke Friedrich Eugen von Württemberg and Princess Friederika von Brandenburg-Schwedt . Your older sister Sophie was in 1776 with the Russian heir Paul I married, for the purposes of marriage politics Empress Catherine II. Sophie, now Maria Feodorovna, promoted the connection of her sister Friederike with ten years older Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Holstein Gottorp, whom she married at the age of 15 on June 26, 1781. This strengthened the ties between the Württembergians and the Russian tsarist house. Her brother-in-law, who later became Tsar, confirmed the marriage connection as head of the Holstein-Gottorp family and also took on the sponsorship of the two sons August and Georg , who were born in 1783 and 1784.
Friederike died of breast cancer at the age of twenty; less than a month after the birth of their third child, who was born dead. Both were initially buried in the Eutin Palace Chapel, but five years later they were transferred to Oldenburg in the ducal mausoleum built especially for them on the Gertrudenfriedhof . The Duke, who was widowed at an early age, did not enter into another marriage.
literature
- Gabriele Haug-Moritz in: Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (eds.): Das Haus Württemberg. A biographical lexicon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4 , pp. 298-299
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Müller: The early years of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg 1755-1785. Isensee, Oldenburg 2016, pp. 159 and 161
- ↑ Hans von Seggern, Bernd Franken: History and stories around the St. Gertruden-Kirchhof , Isensee, 3rd new edition, Oldenburg 2009, p. 44
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| SURNAME | Württemberg, Friederike von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Württemberg, Friederike Elisabeth Amalie Auguste von; Oldenburg, Friederike von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Württemberg and later the wife of Peter I. von Holstein-Gottorp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Treptow at Rega |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1785 |
| Place of death | Eutin |