Princess Wilhelmine von Baden
(1788-1836)
Born 10 September 1788 Karlsruhe
Died 27 January 1836 Rosenh”he
Married 19 June 1804 Karlsruhe
Ludwig II, Grand Duke von Hessen und bei Rhein 1830-1848,
son of Ludwig X-I, Grand Duke von Hessen und bei Rhein
1816-1830 and Landgraefin Louise von Hessen-Darmstadt
Born 26 December 1777 Darmstadt
Died 16 June 1848 Darmstadt
? Children by (a) Freiherr August von Senarclens de Grancy,
son of Baron Cesar August von Senarclens de Grancy and Marie de Loriol
Born 1794
Died 8 October 1871
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Wilhelmine von Baden, the youngest child of Hereditary Prince Karl
Ludwig, was sister of a Queen of Bavaria, an Empress of Russia, a Queen
of Sweden and a Grand Duke of Baden. She herself married the ugly Lugwig
II, Grand Duke of Hessen, who was eleven years her senior. They became
the parents of the future Grand Duke Ludwig III (1806), a stillborn son
(1807) and Karl (1809). Apparently Ludwig II was a womaniser and they drifted
apart. In 1820 Wilhelmine bought a property, Heiligenberg, where she lived
with her chamberlain, the handsome Baron Augustus Senarclens von Grancy.
Four more children were born: Elisabeth (1821), a stillborn daughter (1822),
Alexander (1823) and Marie (1824). Ludwig II accepted the paternity of
Alexander and Marie yet they still remained living at Heiligenberg. As
Wilhelmine died in 1836, she never knew that, when the future Alexander
II, Emperor of Russia, toured Europe in 1838 to find a wife, he fell in
love with the 14-year-old Marie and married her in 1841, even though he
was well aware of the irregularity" of her birth.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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