Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (24 June 1735 – 18 February 1791) was a princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and, through marriage, the last Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth.

Princess Frederica Caroline
Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Born(1735-06-24)24 June 1735
Coburg
Died18 February 1791(1791-02-18) (aged 55)
Unterschwaningen
Spouse
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(m. 1754)​
HouseWettin
FatherFrancis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
MotherPrincess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
ReligionLutheranism

Biography

Frederica Caroline was the fifth child and youngest daughter of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700–1780), daughter of Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Marriage

On 22 November 1754 in Coburg, she married Margrave Karl Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth (1736-1806). The marriage was concluded for dynastic reasons. Although Frederica Caroline was considered virtuous, gentle, charitable and devout,[1] her husband found her ugly, ignorant and boring.[2] The marriage remained childless, he separated from his wife, who by that time lived at Schwaningen Castle in Unterschwaningen, and began to live with his mistress Elizabeth Craven.

Frederica Caroline's brother, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, own his sister admission to the regiment as captain, this starting point of his brilliant military career.

Death

After Frederica Caroline's death, her husband abdicated as Margrave and sold the Margravate to Prussia,[3] he left the country and married his English mistress that year. Frederica Caroline is buried in the Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach.

Ancestry

References
  1. Wirth, Christian. "Triesdorf: Mätressenschlösser des Wilden Markgrafen" [Triesdorf: Mistress Castles of the Savage Margrave]. Funde (in German). Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
  2. Mavridis, Carl-Alexander. "Zum 200. Todestag von Markgraf Alexander" [On the 200th Anniversary of the Death of Margrave Alexander]. Der Verein der Freunde Triesdorf und Umgebung (in German). Archived from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  3. Mebes, Julius (1861). "Beiträge zur Geschichte des Brandenburgisch-Preussischen Staates" [Contributions to the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian state] (in German). Berlin: Lüderitz. p. 766. OCLC 758909879 – via Internet Archive.
  4. von Ammon, Christoph Heinrich (1768). Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Berlin: Etienne de Bordeaux. p. 107. OCLC 894685881. Retrieved 2022-04-04.

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