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Tweet. Frederick William, duke of Brunswick (1771-1815), was one of the most implacable enemies of Napoleonic France, and became known as the 'Black Duke'. Frederick William was the fourth son of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand and the daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He inherited his duchy in 1806, after his father was mortally wounded at ...
Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815), was a German prince and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Oels. Nicknamed "The Black Duke", he was a military officer who led the Black Brunswickers against French domination in Germany. He briefly ruled the state of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1806 to 1807 and again from 1813 to 1815.
Frederick William von Steuben (1730–1794), Prussian officer in the American Revolutionary War; Frederick William von Hessenstein (1735–1808), Swedish statesman and soldier; Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (1769–1859) Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1771–1815) Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st ...
Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle. Brother to Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel led the voluntary corps of Black Brunswickers against Napoleon. He was killed at the Battle of Quatre Bras (16 June 1815) just days before Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
She wed Charles William Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1735-1806), later Charles II Duke of Brunswick, on 16 January 1764. This collection includes details of their marriage treaty and although this was a diplomatic union Augusta was initially happy with her husband - she wrote to George III in December 1764 that ‘I never knew anybody with a more real good heart’.
Prince Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was born in Braunschweig as the fourth son of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain. He was the cousin and brother-in-law (from 8 April 1795) of his friend George IV, Prince Regent of the United Kingdom (from 1811).
* 9 October 1771 – 20 September 1806: "His Serene Highness" Duke Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel * 20 September 1806 - 16 October 1806: ...
