Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria

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Joseph Karl Stieler : Portrait of Princess Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria, later Grand Duchess of Hesse, around 1830

Princess Mathilde Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte of Bavaria (born August 30, 1813 in Augsburg , † May 25, 1862 in Darmstadt ) was by marriage Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine.

Life

Mathilde was born as the daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his wife, Princess Therese Charlotte Luise von Sachsen-Hildburghausen .

On December 26, 1833, she married the Grand Duke Ludwig III. von Hessen-Darmstadt , son of Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hessen and with the Rhine and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden , in Munich. The marriage remained childless.

The Mathildenhöhe , the Mathildenplatz in Darmstadt and the Mathilde Terrace on the Kästrich in Mainz were named after her. The name of Offenbach-Mathildenviertel also goes back to them. Mathilde died in Darmstadt in 1862 at the age of 48. Her tomb is in the Ludwig Church .

Pedigree

Pedigree of Mathilde Karoline Joseph von Bayern
Great-great-grandparents

Duke
Christian III. von Pfalz-Zweibrücken
(1674–1735)
⚭ 1719
Karoline von Nassau-Saarbrücken
(1704–1774)

Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach
(1694–1729)
⚭ 1717
Elisabeth Auguste Sofie von der Pfalz
(1693–1728)

Landgrave
Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
(1691–1768)
⚭ 1717
Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg
(1700–1726)

Count Christian Carl Reinhard von Leiningen-Dagsburg
(1695–1766)
⚭ 1726
Katharina Polyxena von Solms-Rödelheim
(1702–1765)

Duke
Ernst Friedrich II of Saxony-Hildburghausen
(1707–1745)
⚭ 1726
Caroline von Erbach
(1700–1758)

Duke
Ernst August I of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(1688–1748)
⚭ 1734
Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
(1713–1747)

Karl zu Mecklenburg
(1708–1752)
⚭ 1735
Elisabeth Albertine of Saxony-Hildburghausen
(1713–1761)

Georg Wilhelm von Hessen-Darmstadt
(1722–1782)
⚭ 1748
Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg
(1729–1818)

Great grandparents

Duke
Friedrich Michael von Pfalz-Birkenfeld (1724–1767)
⚭ 1746
Maria Franziska Dorothea von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1724–1794)

Georg Wilhelm von Hessen-Darmstadt
(1722–1782)
⚭ 1748
Maria Luise Albertine von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729–1818)

Duke
Ernst Friedrich III. Carl von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1727–1780)
⚭ 1758
Ernestine von Sachsen-Weimar Eisenach (1740–1786)

Grand Duke
Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(1741–1816)
⚭ 1768
Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752–1782)

Grandparents

Bavarian royal crown
King Maximilian I Joseph (1756–1825)
⚭ 1785
Auguste Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt (1765–1796)

Duke
Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen
(1763–1834)
⚭ 1785
Charlotte Georgine Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769–1818)

parents

Bavarian royal crown
King Ludwig I (1786–1868)
⚭ 1810
Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1792–1854)

Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria

literature

  • Barbara Beck: Mathilde, Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine, b. Princess of Bavaria (1813–1862) (Work of the Hessian Historical Commission, New Series, Volume 7). Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-7929-0204-4

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