Wilhelmine of Prussia (1774–1837)

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Wilhelmine of Prussia
Queen Wilhelmine of the Netherlands

Friederike Luise Wilhelmine of Prussia (born November 18, 1774 in Potsdam , † October 12, 1837 in The Hague ) was a Prussian princess and queen of the Netherlands by marriage .

Life

Wilhelmine was a daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia (1744–1797) from his second marriage to Friederike (1751–1805), daughter of Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . During her life, Wilhelmine had a particularly close relationship with her brother, who would later become King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

On October 1, 1791, she married her cousin in Berlin, the Orange Hereditary Prince and later King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands (1772–1843). The marriage with the princess, described as witty and serious, was happy. In 1795 the French expelled the Orange from the Netherlands and went into exile in England; In 1814 they returned to The Hague.

Wilhelmine acquired the Silesian rule Heinrichau from her brother in 1812 .

In Article 13 of the Dutch Constitution of August 24, 1815, Wilhelmine's children were designated as legitimate heirs to the Dutch throne.

The Queen's health had deteriorated as early as 1820; in the last years of her life she hardly appeared in public. Wilhelmine was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft .

progeny

  • Wilhelm II. (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg
⚭ 1816 Grand Duchess Anna of Russia (1795–1865)
⚭ 1825 Princess Luise of Prussia (1808–1870)
  • Charlotte (1800-1806)
  • Marianne (1810-1883)
⚭ 1830 (divorced in 1849) Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872), grandson of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II. And thus nephew of Wilhelmine

literature

  • Uwe Schögl (Red.): Orange. 500 years of portraits of a dynasty from the portrait collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna and the Dutch Royal Collection The Hague. (Exhibition from February 1 to March 19, 2002, Camineum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna). Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-01-000028-6 , pp. 107-108.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rulemann Friedrich Eylert : Character traits and historical fragments from the life of the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III. Part 2, Section 2. 3., revised edition. Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1845, p. 195 f.
  2. ^ Ernst Münch : On the history of the life, character and government of King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands. In: Ernst Münch: Biographical-historical studies. Volume 2. Hallberg, Stuttgart 1836, pp. 45-136, here p. 69 .
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Pfitzner: Attempting a history of the former Princely Cistercian monastery Heinrichau near Münsterberg in Silesia. Trewendt, Breslau 1846, p. 281 .
  4. ↑ Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz : The European constitutions since 1789 up to the most recent time. Volume 2: Containing the constitutions of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, the Italian states and the Ionian Islands. 2nd, rearranged, corrected and supplemented edition. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1833, p. 207 .
predecessor Office Successor
Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte Queen of the Netherlands
1814–1837 		Anna Pavlovna
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmine of Prussia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friederike Luise Wilhelmine Princess of Prussia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of the Netherlands by marriage
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1837
Place of death The hague