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Princess Marie Louise
Photograph of Marie Louise
Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg
Tenure30 November 1848 – 3 August 1853
Born(1803-03-31)31 March 1803
Ludwigslust Palace, Ludwigslust, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Holy Roman Empire
Died26 October 1862(1862-10-26) (aged 59)
Elisabethenburg Palace, Meiningen, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, German Confederation
Spouse
(m. 1825; died 1853)
Issue
Names
German: Marie Luise Friederike Alexandrine Elisabeth Charlotte Catherine
HouseMecklenburg-Schwerin
FatherFrederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
MotherGrand 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

References

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

Bibliography

Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin House of MecklenburgBorn: 31 March 1803 Died: 26 October 1862 German royalty Preceded byDuchess Amelia of Württemberg Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg 30 November 1848 – 3 August 1853 Succeeded byPrincess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau