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
Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
​
(
m. 1754)
HouseWettin
FatherFrancis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
MotherPrincess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
ReligionLutheranism

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

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
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Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Born: 24 June 1735 Died: 18 February 1791
German nobility
Vacant
Title last held by
Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia		 Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
3 August 1757 – 18 February 1791		 Vacant
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