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

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of the

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Early life and family

Born in

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, 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 (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,

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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. They had eight children: * Princess Amalie Christiane of Baden (13 July 1776 – 26 October 1823) * Princess Caroline 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

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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 31 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 (8 June 1786 in

– 8 December 1818 in

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); 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 1804 her double first cousin Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (26 December 1777 – 16 June 1848), and was the 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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(which occurred when his carriage skidded off the icy road and overturned, during his 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Charles Louis of Baden, Hereditary Prince Heirs apparent who never acceded House of Zähringen 1755 births 1801 deaths Hereditary princes of Baden Nobility from Karlsruhe Sons of dukes Sons of prince-electors