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Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Margravine Friederike
Friederike Dorothee of Brandenburg-Schwedt, duchess of Württemberg.jpg
Duchess of Württemberg
Consort 20 May 1795 – 23 December 1797
Born (1736-12-18)18 December 1736
Schwedt
Died 9 March 1798(1798-03-09) (aged 61)
Stuttgart
Spouse Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
Issue Frederick I of Württemberg
Duke Louis
Sophia Dorothea, Empress of Russia
Duke William
Friederika, Princess Peter Frederick Louis of Holstein-Gottorp
Elisabeth, Archduchess Francis of Austria
Duke Alexander
Full name
Friederike Sophia Dorothea
House Brandenburg-Schwedt
Father Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Mother Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia
Full name
Friederike Sophia Dorothea

Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (Friederike Sophia Dorothea; 18 December 1736 – 9 March 1798) was Duchess of Württemberg (now in Germany) and ancestor to many European royals of the 19th and 20th century.

Friederike was described as witty and charming. She belonged to the reformed faith, while her consort was Catholic, but she brought up her children as Lutheran upon agreement with the Lutheran council, from whom she received an allowance.

From 1769 she lived at Montbéliard, which was being managed by her husband, but which had to be abandoned in 1792 because of the French Revolution. Her husband inherited the Dukedom of Württemberg in 1795–97.

Friederike was a daughter of Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt and his wife Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia. Her mother was a sister of Frederick the Great. Her siblings included Elisabeth Louise, Princess Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia and Philippine, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel.

On 2 November 1753, she married Frederick Eugen of Württemberg. He would succeed his brother in 1795, making her Duchess consort of Württemberg. They had twelve children:


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