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, and the Abbess of the Danish Protestant convent

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in 1738–1743.

Life

She was born to

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and Albertine Sophie Esther, Countess of Eberstein (1661-1728). She never married, and after the death of her father in 1716, she lived with her mother in

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until her mother's death in 1728. She was, for a time, lady-in-waiting to

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. Frederica was a favorite of the Danish queen, whose favoritism of Germans was disliked, and was awarded by her with her order and the lucrative post of abbess. She was not popular at the Danish royal court, where she was disliked because of her sharp tongue and was involved in a conflict with the queen's sister,

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. In 1743, she left Denmark and returned to the castle in Neuenstadt. She was a Dame of the

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References

* Frederikke, Hertuginde af Württemberg i Carl Frederik Bricka, Dansk biografisk Lexikon (första utgåvan, 1891) * Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (Hrsg.): Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon.

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, Stuttgart 1997, , S. 230, Nr. 4.4.12: Friederike {{DEFAULTSORT:Frederica of Wurttemberg (1699-1781) Court of Christian VI of Denmark 18th-century Danish women 1781 deaths 1699 births Danish royal favourites Ordre de l'Union Parfaite Danish abbesses 18th-century German nuns