List of Finnish royal consorts explained

The consorts of Finland were the spouses of the Finnish Monarchs. They used the titles Grand Duchess of Finland, briefly Queen of the Finns, and later Queen consort of Finland:

Duchess of Finland

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame DuchessCeased to be DuchessDeathSpouse
Christina TorgilsdotterTorkel Knutsson -1302, after 2 December9 December 1305
divorce
-
Eric II of Norway
(Fairhair)
129729 September 131216 February 1318
husband's death
1353-7
Ingeborg Ulvsdotter of ToftaUlf Abjörnsson
(Sparre)
--1353
husband inherit title
1356-
Sigismund I the Old
(Jagellon)
1 November 15264 October 15621563
husband imprisoned and stripped of title
16 September 1583

Grand Duchess of Finland

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Sigismund I the Old
(Jagiellon)
1 November 15264 October 15621580s
husband adopted title
16 September 1583
Johan Axelsson Bielke
(Bielke)
25 June 156815 February 158517 November 1592
husband's death
19 July 1597
Anna of AustriaCharles II, Archduke of Austria
(Habsburg)
16 August 157331 May 159217 November 1592
husband inherit title
10 February 1598
Christina of Holstein-Gottorp
Queen of Finns
Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
(Holstein-Gottorp)
13 April 15738 July 1592 22 March 1604
husband inherit title
1607
husband adopted title of King of Finns
30 October 1611
husband's death
8 December 1625Kaarle IX
Maria Eleonora of BrandenburgJohn Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg
(Hohenzollern)
11 November 1599 25 November 16206 November 1632
husband's death
28 March 1655Kustaa II Aadolf
PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame Grand DuchessCeased to be Grand DuchessDeathSpouse
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-GottorpFrederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
(Holstein-Gottorp)
23 October 163624 October 165413 February 1660
husband's death
24 November 1715Kaarle X Kustaa
Ulrika Eleonora of DenmarkFrederick III of Denmark
(Oldenburg)
11 September 1656 6 May 168026 July 1693Kaarle XI

Title fell into disuse

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame Grand DuchessCeased to be Grand DuchessDeathSpouse
Louise of BadenCharles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
(Zähringen)
24 January 177928 September 1793 29 March 1809
husband gain title
1 December 1825
husband's death
16 May 1826Aleksanteri I
Charlotte of PrussiaFrederick William III of Prussia
(Hohenzollern)
13 July 1798 13 July 1817 1 December 1825
husband's ascension
2 March 1855
husband's death
1 November 1860Nikolai I
Marie of Hesse and by RhineLouis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
8 August 182416 April 1841 2 March 1855
husband's ascension
8 June 1880Aleksanteri II
Dagmar of DenmarkChristian IX of Denmark
(Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)
26 November 1847 9 November 1866 13 March 1881
husband's ascession
1 November 1894
husband's death
13 October 1928 Aleksanteri III
Alix of Hesse and by RhineLouis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
6 June 1872 26 November 1894 1 November 1894
husband's ascession
15 March 1917
Russian monarchy abolished
17 July 1918Nikolai II

Queen consort-Elect

See also