Princess Sophie of Sweden

Princess Sophie of Sweden ( _sv. Sofia Marie Louise Charlotte Sverige, German: Sophie von Schweden), (May 21 1801 - July 6 1865), was a consort Grand Duchess of Baden.

Sophie was born in Stockholm on May 21, 1801. She was the daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen consort Frederica of Baden. On 25 July 1819, Sophie married her half-granduncle Leopold I of Baden. They became the paternal grandparents of the Swedish Queen consort Victoria of Baden.

Sophia and Leopold had the following children.
*Alexandrine (1820-1904), married Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818-93), childless marriage due to which Ernest's younger brother Albert's British issue succeeded in that duchy.
*Ludwig(1822-22)
*Louis II (1824-58), reigned as Grand Duke 1852-58, deemed mentally unfit to rule.
*Frederick I (1826-1907), Grand Duke 1858-1907, Regent 1852-58, father of Victoria, later Queen of Sweden.
*Wilhem (1829-97), Prussian General, married Marie of Leuchtenberg, became ancestor of the younger line of princes of Baden and father of Prince Max of Baden, German Chancellor, and later the heir of Grand Duchy.
*Karl (1832-1906), married Rosalie von Beust (morganatic)
*Marie Amelie (1834-99), married Prince Ernest of Leiningen (1830-1904)
*Cecily (1839-91), known as Olga Feodorovna, married Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia (1832-1902), Governor General in Tbilisi.

She died at Karlsruhe on July 6, 1867.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Sophie of Sweden
2= 2. Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
3= 3. Frederica of Baden
4= 4. Gustav III of Sweden
5= 5. Sophia Magdalena of Denmark
6= 6. Margrave Charles Louis of Baden
7= 7. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
8= 8. Adolf Frederick of Sweden
9= 9. Louisa Ulrika of Prussia
10= 10. Frederick V of Denmark
11= 11. Louise of Great Britain
12= 12. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
13= 13. Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
14= 14. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
15= 15. Caroline of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
16= 16. Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin
17= 17. Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach
18= 18. Frederick William I of Prussia
19= 19. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
20= 20. Christian VI of Denmark
21= 21. Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
22= 22. George II of Great Britain
23= 23. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach
24= 24. Friedrich of Baden-Durlach
25= 25. Amelia of Nassau-Dietz
26= 26. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
27= 27. Charlotte Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg
28= 28. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (= 26)
29= 29. Charlotte Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg (= 27)
30= 30. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
31= 31. Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken