Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (14 February 1755 – 16 December 1801) was

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of the

Margraviate of Baden The Margraviate of Baden (german: Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the east side of the Upper Rhine River in southwestern Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, ...

Early life and family

Born in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the German States of Germany, state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital o ...

, he was the son of Margrave Charles Frederick (who in 1803, after Charles Louis's death, became the elector and in 1806 the first Grand Duke of Baden) and

Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1723 – 8 April 1783), was a consort of Baden, a dilettante artist, scientist, collector and salonist. Biography The daughter of Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt and Charlotte Christine ...

(11 July 1723 - 8 April 1783), the daughter of Landgrave Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was an ancestor of

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, Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary,

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and his wife,

Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) german: Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrixrussian: Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova , house = Hesse-Darmstadt , father = Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine , mother = Princess Alice of the United Kingdom , birth_name ...

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, and

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, among others.

Marriage and issue

On 15 July 1774, Charles Louis married his first cousin Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (20 June 1754 – 21 July 1832). She was the daughter of

Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt (german: Ludwig) (15 December 1719 – 6 April 1790) was the reigning Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1768 to 1790. Louis IX and his wife became the most recent common ancestors of all current European monarchs ...

. They had eight children: * Princess Amalie of Baden (13 July 1776 – 26 October 1823) * Princess Karoline of Baden (13 July 1776 – 13 November 1841); married on 9 March 1797 the then Count Palatine Maximilian of Zweibrücken (27 May 1756 – 13 October 1825), as his second wife (and became maternal grandmother of Empress Sisi and her husband,

). In 1799 her husband became

Elector Palatine The counts palatine of Lotharingia /counts palatine of the Rhine /electors of the Palatinate (german: Kurfürst von der Pfalz) ruled some part of Rhine area in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire from 915 to 1803. The title was a kind ...

and

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, and in 1804

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(her titles accordingly being Duchess, then Electress, then Queen). * Princess Louise of Baden (24 January 1779 – 16 May 1826); married on 9 October 1793 Tsar Alexander I of Russia (23 December 1777 – 1 December 1825). * Princess Frederica of Baden (12 March 1781 – 25 September 1826); married on October 1797

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. They divorced in 1812. * Princess Marie of Baden (7 September 1782 – 29 April 1808); married on 1 November 1802 Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick (9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815). * Prince Charles Frederick of Baden (13 September 1784 – 1 March 1785); died prior to succeeding. *

Charles, Grand Duke of Baden Charles (german: Karl Ludwig Friedrich; 8 July 1786 – 8 December 1818) was Grand Duke of Baden from 11 June 1811 until his death in 1818. He was born in Karlsruhe. Life His father was Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, the heir to ...

(8 June 1786 in

– 8 December 1818 in Rastatt); married on 8 April 1806

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(28 August 1789 – 29 January 1860). Among his descendants are the royal families of Belgium,

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, and two branches of the

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. * Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (10 September 1788 – 27 January 1836); married on 19 June 19, 1804 her double first cousin Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (26 December 1777 – 16 June 1848), and was mother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna as well as great-grandmother of both

and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Works of history mention that his children succeeded well in marriage market and that the Hereditary Prince was the force behind that. At the time of his death in

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, Sweden (which occurred during the visit to his fourth daughter, the ''Queen of Sweden''), two of his other daughters were, respectively, ''Electress'' of Bavaria and the newly ascended ''Empress of Russia''.

Ancestry

References

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