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	24 June 1735 Coburg
Died	18 February 1791 (aged 55) Unterschwaningen
Spouse	Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ​ ​ (m. 1754)​
House	Wettin
Father	Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother	Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Religion	Lutheranism

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.

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, owed his sister admission to the regiment as captain, this starting point of his brilliant career military.

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

Ancestors of Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld[4]

16. John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar 8. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha 17. Dorothea Maria of Anhalt 4. John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 18. Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg 9. Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg 19. Elisabeth of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel 2. Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 20. Philipp VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen 10. Josias II, Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont 21. Anna of Sayn-Wittgenstein 5. Charlotte Johanne of Waldeck-Pyrmont 22. Wilhelm, Count of Nassau-Siegen 11. Wilhelmine Christine of Nassau-Siegen 23. Christina, Countess of Erbach 1. Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 24. Louis Guenther I, Count of Schwarzburg 12. Albrecht Anton, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 25. Emilie von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst 6. Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 26. Albert Frederick of Barby-Mühlingen 13. Emilie Juliana von Barby-Mühlingen 27. Sophie Ursula of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst 3. Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 28. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (= 8) 14. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 29. Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (= 9) 7. Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 30. August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels 15. Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels 31. Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Notes

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-02-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. http://www.freundetriesdorf.de/geschichte_200todestag.html
3. Julius Mebes: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Brandenburgisch-Preussischen Staates, Band 1, Lüderitz, 1861, S. 766
4. 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). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 107.

Bibliography

• Julius Mebes: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Brandenburgisch-Preussischen Staates, Band 1, Lüderitz, 1861, S. 766

External links

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