, title = Countess/Duchess of Oldenburg , image = , caption = , spouse =

Frederick Augustus I, Duke of Oldenburg , title = Duke of Oldenburg , image = Friedrich August von Oldenburg.jpg , caption = , succession = List of rulers of Oldenburg, Duke of Oldenburg , predecessor = Kings of Denmark as counts , successor = W ...

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Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg , image = , caption = , reign = 6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 , succession = Duke of Oldenburg , predecessor = Frederick Augustus I , successor = Peter I , spouse = , issue = , house ...

Princess Luise
Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, Queen of Sweden and Norway , royal house =

Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (german: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel), spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, was a state in the Holy Roman Empire that was directly subject to the Emperor. The state was created in 1567 when the Lan ...

, father = Landgrave Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel , mother = Landgravine Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt , birth_date = , birth_place =

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

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Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. I ...

, place of burial = } Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel (german: Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel) (31 October 1722,

– 28 February 1787,

) was a member of the

House of Hesse-Kassel The House of Hesse is a European dynasty, directly descended from the House of Brabant. They ruled the region of Hesse, one branch as prince-electors until 1866, and another branch as grand dukes until 1918. Burke's Royal Families of the World, ...

by birth, and of the

House of Holstein-Gottorp Holstein-Gottorp or Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp () is the Historiography, historiographical name, as well as contemporary shorthand name, for the parts of the duchies of Duchy of Schleswig, Schleswig and Duchy of Holstein, Holstein, also known as ...

through her marriage to

. Ulrike was the Duchess consort of Oldenburg from 1774 until her husband's death on 6 July 1785.

Marriage and issue

Ulrike married Prince Frederick Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp, son of Christian August, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Margravine Albertine Friederike of

Baden-Durlach The Margraviate of Baden-Durlach was an early modern territory of the Holy Roman Empire, in the upper Rhine valley, which existed from 1535 to 1771. It was formed when the Margraviate of Baden was split between the sons of Margrave Christopher ...

, on 21 November 1752 in

. Ulrike and Frederick Augustus had three children: * Peter Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg (born 3 January 1754) * Luise of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg (born 2 October 1756, died 1759) * Hedwig Sophie Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp-Oldenburg (born 22 March 1759)

Ancestry

References

1722 births 1787 deaths House of Hesse-Kassel Duchesses of Oldenburg Nobility from Kassel {{Germany-duchess-stub