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Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
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Duke Louis of Württemberg
Duke Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (; 30 August 1756, in Treptow an der Rega20 September 1817, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Bra ...
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Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess. She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daught ...
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Würzau
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Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
, Germany
Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine Constance of Württemberg (27 February 1802 in
Würzau,
Courland Governorate
The Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland (german: Kurländisches Gouvernement; russian: Курля́ндская губерния, translit=Kurljándskaja gubernija; lv, Kurzemes guberņa; lt, K ...
– 5 December 1864, in
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
) was a daughter of
Duke Louis of Württemberg
Duke Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (; 30 August 1756, in Treptow an der Rega20 September 1817, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Bra ...
and
Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess. She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daught ...
.
Family
![Elisabeth Alexandrine age 18](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Elisabeth_Alexandrine_age_18.jpg)
Elisabeth was one of five children born to
Duke Louis of Württemberg
Duke Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (; 30 August 1756, in Treptow an der Rega20 September 1817, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Bra ...
and his second wife
Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess. She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daught ...
. Her siblings included
Queen Pauline of Württemberg and
Duke Alexander of Württemberg, the founder of the
Teck Teck may refer to:
* Teck Castle (Burg Teck) in Württemberg, Germany
* Teckberg, mountain on which it is located
* Duke of Teck, a title of nobility, associated with Teck Castle
* Teck Railway, Germany
* Teck Resources, a Canadian mining company ...
branch of the family.
She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist
Alexandrine des Écherolles, who described her pupils in her memoirs.
[Side Lights on the Reign of Terror; being the memoirs of Mademoiselle des Écherolles (London, 1900)]
Marriage and children
Elisabeth married
Prince William of Baden
Margrave Wilhelm of Baden (8 April 1792 in Karlsruhe – 11 October 1859 in Karlsruhe) was the second son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden and his second wife, Luise Karoline, Baroness Geyer von Geyersberg (26 May 1768 – 23 July 18 ...
on 16 October 1830.
[ Ten years older than she was, he was the second son of ]Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
Charles Frederick (22 November 1728 – 10 June 1811) was Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden (initially only Margrave of Baden-Durlach) from 1738 until his death.
Biography
Born at Karlsruhe, he was the son of Hereditary Prince Frede ...
and his second wife Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg. Due to the low birth rank of his mother, William had no succession rights for a time to the Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...
(until his brother succeeded as Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden
Leopold (29 August 1790 – 24 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the Grand Duke of Baden, reigning until his death in 1852.
Although a younger child, Leopold was the first son of Margrave Karl Friederich of Baden by his second, morganatic wife, ...
earlier that year).
Elisabeth and William had issue:
* Princess Wilhelmine Pauline ''Henriette'' Amalie Louise (May 7, 1833 – August 7, 1834).
* Princess ''Sophie'' Pauline Henriette Amalie Louise (August 7, 1834 – April 6, 1904), married Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
Woldemar of Lippe (''Günther Friedrich Woldemar''; 18 April 1824 – 20 March 1895) was the sovereign of the Principality of Lippe, reigning from 1875 until his death.
Early life and reign
Prince Woldemar of Lippe was born in Detmold the third c ...
on November 9, 1858.
* Princess Pauline Sophie ''Elisabeth'' Marie (December 18, 1835 – May 15, 1891).
* Princess ''Leopoldine'' Wilhelmine Pauline Amalie Maximiliane (February 22, 1837 – December 23, 1903), married Hermann VI, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on September 24, 1862.
Death
William died on 11 October 1859. Elisabeth would die five years later, on 5 December 1864.[
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Ancestry
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Elisabeth Alexandrine Of Wurttemberg
1802 births
1864 deaths
People from Jelgava Municipality
House of Württemberg
Duchesses of Württemberg
House of Zähringen
Royal reburials