Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden was heir apparent of the Margraviate of Baden.
Early life and family
Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Margrave Charles Frederick and Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, the daughter of Landgrave Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt.He was an ancestor of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Charles III of the United Kingdom, among others.
Marriage and issue
On 15 July 1774, Charles Louis married his first cousin Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.They had eight children:
- Princess Amalie Christiane of Baden
- Princess Caroline of Baden ; married on 9 March 1797 the then Count Palatine Maximilian of Zweibrücken, as his second wife. In 1799, her husband became Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria, and, in 1804, King of Bavaria.
- Princess Louise of Baden ; married on 9 October 1793 Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
- Princess Frederica of Baden ; married on 31 October 1797 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. They divorced in 1812.
- Princess Marie of Baden ; married on 1 November 1802 Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick.
- Prince Charles Frederick of Baden ; died prior to succeeding.
- Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ; married on 8 April 1806 Stéphanie de Beauharnais. Among his descendants are the royal families of Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Monaco, and two branches of the House of Habsburg.
- Princess Wilhelmine of Baden ; married on 19 June 1804 her first cousin Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and was the mother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna as well as great-grandmother of both Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.