Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (german: Mathilde Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte von Bayern) ( Augsburg, August 30, 1813 –

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

, May 25, 1862) was the second child and eldest daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Marriage

On 26 December 1833 in Munich, Mathilde married Louis of Hesse (1806–1877), eldest son and heir of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and

Wilhelmine of Baden Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Baden (21 September 1788 – 27 January 1836), was by birth a Princess of Baden from the House of Zähringen and by marriage Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine. Her descendants include the last emperor of Ru ...

. Ludwig succeeded his father as Grand Duke Ludwig III in 1848. The marriage was childless.

Honours

* : 567th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa - Order of Queen Maria Luisa (Spain) - ribbon bar

Ancestry

Bibliography

* Barbara Beck: ''Mathilde, Großherzogin von Hessen und bei Rhein, geb. Prinzessin von Bayern (1813–1862)'' (Arbeiten der Hessischen Historischen Kommission, Neue Folge, Band 7). Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-7929-0204-4 , - 1813 births 1862 deaths House of Wittelsbach House of Hesse-Darmstadt Bavarian princesses People from Augsburg Hereditary Grand Duchesses of Hesse 19th-century German people 19th-century German women Daughters of kings {{Germany-duchess-stub