Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duchess consort of Mecklenburg
Born	(1694-07-12)12 July 1694
Died	13 April 1748(1748-04-13) (aged 53)
Spouse	Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg ​ ​ (m. 1714)​
Issue	Friedrich II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Duchess Ulrike Sofie Duke Louis Duchess Luise Duchess Amalie
Names Gustave Caroline
House	Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Father	Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg
Mother	Maria of Mecklenburg

Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (12 July 1694 – 13 April 1748) was a daughter of Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg and Princess Maria of Mecklenburg.^[1]

Family[]

Gustave Caroline was the fourth daughter and youngest child of Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg by his first wife Princess Maria of Mecklenburg. She was a younger sister of Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg. Through her father's third marriage, she was an aunt of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

Marriage[]

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On 13 November 1714, Gustave Caroline married her cousin Christian Ludwig of Mecklenburg.^[1] He was the third eldest son of Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow and his wife Princess Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg. Christian Ludwig succeeded as Duke of Mecklenburg in 1747, the year before Gustave Caroline's death.

They had five children:

• Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1717–1785); married Luise Friederike of Württemberg
• Louis (1725–78); married Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731–1810). They were the parents of Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
• Ulrike Sofie (1723–1813)
• Luise (1730)
• Amalie (1732–1775)

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