Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ludwig Friedrich Alexander von WURTTEMBERG (1756-1817)

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Household of Ludwig Friedrich Alexander von WURTTEMBERG

(1) He is married to Henriette von NASSAU-WEILBURG.

They got married on January 28, 1797 at Hermitage, Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany, he was 40 years old.


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(2) He is married to Maria Anna CZARTORYSKA.

They got married on October 28, 1784, he was 28 years old.


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Notes about Ludwig Friedrich Alexander von WURTTEMBERG

Duke Louis of Württemberg (Ludwig Friedrich Alexander Duke of Württemberg) (Treptow an der Rega, 30 August 1756 - Kirchheim unter Teck, 20 September 1817) was the second son of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (1732-1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736-1798). His elder brother was Frederick I, the first King of Württemberg, his sister was the Russian Empress consort, Maria Feodorovna. Louis retained the pre-royal title of Duke.

Louis Frederick was a general in the cavalry. He was briefly a high ranking commander the Army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth appointed the commander of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's army, but betrayed the Commonwealth, refusing to fight against Russian troops throughout the Polish-Russian War of 1792, while feinting illness. For his betrayal he was dismissed from his post, but never persecuted. His Polish wife, Maria Wirtemberska, divorced him shortly afterward after his treason became public knowledge.

Marriages and issue
He married on 28 October 1784 Maria Czartoryska (1768-1854), daughter of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and Isabella, Countess Flemming. They had one child before they divorced in 1793 (Maria initiated the divorce upon the news of his betrayal of Poland):
Duke Adam Karl Wilhelm Stanislaus Eugen Paul Ludwig of Württemberg (16 January 1792 - 27 July 1847); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805.

On 28 January 1797 in Hermitage (de), near Bayreuth, Louis Frederick was married to Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (then of Nassau), daughter of Charles Christian, Duke of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau. The couple had five children:
Duchess Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Karoline of Württemberg (1 November 1797 - 30 March 1855); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805; married in 1819 Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (9 March 1776 - 13 January 1847).
Duchess Amalie Therese Luise Wilhelmine Philippine of Württemberg (28 June 1799 - 28 November 1848); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805; married in 1817 Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (27 August 1789 - 25 November 1868).
Duchess Pauline Therese Luise of Württemberg (4 September 1800 - 10 March 1873); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805; married in 1820 her first cousin, William I of Wurttemberg.
Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine Konstanze of Württemberg (27 February 1802 - 5 December 1864); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805; married in 1830 Prince Wilhelm, Grand-Ducal Prince and Margrave von Baden (8 April 1792 - 11 October 1859).
Duke Alexander Paul Ludwig Konstantin of Württemberg (9 September 1804 - 4 July 1885); granted the style Royal Highness on 26 December 1805; married, morganitically, on 2 May 1835, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, and had issue (21 September 1812 - 1 October 1841); founded the second branch of the House of Württemberg, known as the Dukes of Teck.

He is an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Charles Napoléon.

Between 1807 and 1810, Duke Louis employed the composer Carl Maria von Weber as his secretary with no musical duties. Weber and the duke's older brother Frederick mutually disliked each other, and the composer was banished from Württemberg after accusations of misappropriating some of the duke's money.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis,_Duke_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg

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Birthday August 30, 1756

  • The temperature on August 30, 1756 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1756: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 18 » The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
    • June 20 » A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
    • July 30 » In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
    • August 29 » Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
    • September 8 » French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.

Day of marriage October 28, 1784

  • The temperature on October 28, 1784 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1784: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
    • March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
    • April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
    • June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
    • August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
    • October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Day of death September 20, 1817

  • The temperature on September 20, 1817 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken winderig bui. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 12 » An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco.
    • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
    • May 15 » Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
    • October 17 » The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
    • October 30 » Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
    • December 10 » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.


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