Louise Henriette (1627-1667) married 1646 Frederick William The Great
Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688). They had 3 sons, including:
Frederick I of Prussia (1657-1713), 1st king of Prussia 1701, married
1st 1679 Elisabeth Henriëtte of Hesse-Cassel (1661-1683), 2nd 1684
Sophia Charlotte of Great-Britain and Hannover (1668-1705) and 3rd 1708
Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg (1685-1735). Children:
Luise of Prussia (1680-1705) married 1700 Frederick I of
Hesse-Cassel (1676-1751), king of Sweden 1720
Frederick William I (1688-1740), king of Prussia 1713, married 1706
his cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Great-Britain and Hannover
(1687-1757). They had 14 children, including:
Frederick II the great (1712-1786), king of Prussia 1740,
married 1733 Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel
(1715-1797)
Charlotte Philippine of Prussia (1716-1801) married 1733 Karl I
of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1713-1780). They had 7 sons and 6
daughters, including:
Karl II of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1735-1806) married 1764
his 2nd cousin Augusta of Great-Brittain and Hannover
(1737-1813). Children:
Auguste (1764-1788 under misterious circumstances)
married 1780 Friedrich I of Württemberg (1754-1816)
Karel Georg of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1766-1806)
married 1790 Frederica Louise of The Netherlands
(1770-1819)
Caroline (1768-1821) married 1795 her cousin George IV
of Great-Brittain and Hannover (1762-1830)
Georg of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1769-1811)
August of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1770-1820)
Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1771-1815)
married 1802 Marie of Baden (1782-1808). They had two
sons and a stillborn daughter. This line became extinct
in 1884.
Amalie of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1772-1773)
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1739-1807),
patroness of Goethe, married 1756 Ernst August II of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737-1758). Two children:
Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757-1828) married
1775 Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757-1830). They had 7
children, including:
Carl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar (1783-1853) married
1804 Maria Pawlowna of Russia (1786-1859). Children:
Maria of Saxe-Weimar (1808-1877) married 1827
Karl of Prussia (1801-1883)
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811-1890) married 1829
emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (1797-1888), see
below.
Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(1818-1901) married 1842 Sophie of The
Netherlands (1824-1897).
Bernhard Karl of Saxe-Weimar (1792-1862) married
1816 Ida of Saxe-Meiningen (1794-1852). Their son
Hermann (1825-1901) married in 1851 Auguste of
Wür;ttemberg (1826-1898) and their eldest daughter,
Pauline of Saxe-Weimar (1852-1904) married in 1873
her 2nd cousin, Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(1844-1894).
Friedrich Ferdinand of Saxe-Weimar (1758-1793)
Elisabeth Christina of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1746-1840)
married 1765, divorced 1769 her cousin king Frederick
William II of Prussia (1744-1797), see below.
Sophie of Prussia (1719-1765) married 1734 her 2nd cousin
Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700-1771)
August William of Prussia (1722-1758) married 1742 Luise of
Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1722-1780). Children:
Frederick William II (1744-1797), king of Prussia 1786,
married 1st 1765, divorced 1769 his cousin, Elisabeth of
Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel (1746-1840), see above, 2nd 1769
Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751-1805). He contracted a
3rd bigamous and morganatic marriage in 1787 to Julie von
Voss (1766-1789) and a 4th in 1790 to Juliane von Dönhoff
(1768-1834). In addition he recognized and ennobled the
children of his liaison with Wilhelmina Enke (1753-1820). He
had 9 legitimate children by his first 2 marriages,
including:
Friederike of Prussia (1767-1820) married 1791 Frederick
August of Great-Britain and Hannover (1762-1827), second
son of mad king George III
Frederick William III (1770-1840), king of Prussia 1797,
married 1st 1793 the famous Louise of Mecklenburg
(1776-1810), 2nd 1824 Augusta von Harrach (1800-1873).
He had 5 sons and 5 daughters by his first wife,
including:
Frederick William IV (1795-1861), king of Prussia
1840, married 1823 Elisabeth of Bavaria (1801-1873)
Wilhelm I of Germany (1797-1888), king of Prussia
1861, emperor of Germany 1871, married 1829 Augusta
of Saxe-Weimar (1811-1890), see above. They are the
ancestors of the pretender of Germany.
Charlotte "Alexandra Feodorovna" (1798-1860) married
1817 Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855)
Karl of Prussia (1801-1883) married 1827 Marie of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808-1877), two daughters and
one son , Friedrich Karl (1828-1885), who married
Maria Anna of Anhalt (1837-1906) in 1854. The eldest
of their 5 children, Marie of Prussia (1855-1888),
married in 1878 Hendrik of The Netherlands
(1820-1879)
Alexandrine of Prussia (1803-1892) married 1822 Paul
Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800-1842). They
had two daughters and two sons. The eldest,
Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(1823-1883) married 3rdly 1868 Marie of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850-1922). Their youngest
son, Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876-1934)
married in 1901 queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands
(1880-1962).
Luise of Prussia (1808-1870) married 1825 Frederik
of The Netherlands (1797-1881)
Albrecht of Prussia (1809-1872) married 1st 1830,
divorced 1849 Marianne of The Netherlands
(1810-1883). He contracted a 2nd, morganatic,
marriage in 1853 to Rosalie von Rach (1820-1879).
Issue.
Wilhelmina of Prussia (1774-1837) married 1791 her
cousin, king Willem I Frederik of The Netherlands
(1772-1843)
Heinrich of Prussia (1747-1767)
Wilhelmina "Willemijntje" of Prussia (1751-1820) married
1767 Willem V of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806)
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