Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg
(m. 1825; died 1853)
Issue
Names
German: Marie Luise Friederike Alexandrine Elisabeth Charlotte Catherine
HouseMecklenburg-SchwerinFatherFrederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SchwerinMotherGrand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia

Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (German: Herzogin Marie Luise Friederike Alexandrine Elisabeth Charlotte Catherine Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 31 March 1803 – 26 October 1862) was the Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. She was daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. In 1825, she married Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and became his consort.

Early life

Marie Louise was born on 31 March 1803, in the Ludwigslust Palace in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was the second child and first daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778–1819), and his wife, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784–1803). Frederick Louis was the son of Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, while Elena Pavlovna was the daughter of Paul I of Russia and Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.

Marriage

Portrait of Marie Louise (by Karl Joseph Stieler, 1851)

On 7 October 1825 in Ludwigslust, at the age of twenty-two, Marie Louise married twenty-nine-year-old Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Georg was the son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and his wife, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The newly-wedded couple would live in Charlottenburg Palace in Hildburghausen until 1829.

The marriage was, reportedly, very happy. The local superintendent Klötzner said: "[...] in his love for his wife and sons, he was the model of a real family man."[1]

They had three children:

  1. Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (b. Hildburghausen, 16 September 1826 – d. Altenburg, 7 February 1908); married Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau.
  2. Prince Albrecht Frederick August (b. Hildburghausen, 31 October 1827 – d. Ludwigslust, 28 May 1835).
  3. Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (b. Eisenberg, 24 October 1829 – d. Arco, Italy, 13 May 1907); married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
8. Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
4. Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
9. Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
2. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
10. Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
5. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
11. Princess Louise Reuss of Schleiz
1. Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
12. Peter III of Russia
6. Paul I of Russia
13. Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst
Catherine II of Russia
3. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
14. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
7. Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
15. Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt

References

  1. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: Die Herzoge von Sachsen-Altenburg. Bozen 1917, Neudruck Altenburg 1992 S. 187

Bibliography

  • The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference:
  • Het Groothertogelijk Huis Mecklenburg, Bergen-op-Zoom, 1901–1902, Juten, W. J. F., Reference: page 112
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Born: 31 March 1803 Died: 26 October 1862
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Preceded by Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg
30 November 1848 – 3 August 1853
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