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Princess Pauline Olga Helene Emma of Württemberg (19 December 1877 – 7 May 1965) was the only child of William II of Württemberg and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont to reach adulthood. Pauline was the wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied , and worked for many years as the regional director of the German Red Cross in western Germany.
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’.
Frederick assumed the title Prince-Elector (German: Kurfürst) on 25 February 1803, and was thereafter known as the Elector of Württemberg. The reorganization of the Empire also secured the new Elector control of various ecclesiastical territories and former free cities, thus greatly increasing the size of his domains.
In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, August belonged to the Army of Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia and commanded as a Cavalry General the Guard Corps in the victorious battles of Soor and Burkersdorf. The Battle of Königgrätz on 3 July 1866 witnessed the decisive occupation of Chlum by his units.
Category. : Princes of Württemberg. The title Prince of Württemberg and the use of the style "Royal Highness" has generally been restricted to the following persons: the legitimate sons of a Sovereign of the Kingdom of Württemberg, the legitimate male line descendants of a Sovereign of the Kingdom of Württemberg.
Catharina of Württemberg. Portrait by François Kinson, c.1810-1820. Princess Katharina of Württemberg (full name: Friederike Katharina Sophie Dorothea; [1] 21 February 1783 – 29 November 1835) was Queen consort of Westphalia by marriage to Jérôme Bonaparte, who reigned as King of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813.
Life. He was born on 9 September 1804 the son of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817), the younger brother of Frederick I of Württemberg, the first king of Württemberg, and the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797). [1] His mother was Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857), a daughter of ...
