Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld explained

Princess Frederica Caroline
Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
House:Wettin
Father:Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother:Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Birth Date:24 June 1735
Birth Place:Coburg
Death Place:Unterschwaningen

Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (24 June 173518 February 1791) was a princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and, through marriage, the last Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth.

Biography

Frederica Caroline was the fifth child and youngest daughter of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700–1780), daughter of Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Marriage

On 22 November 1754 in Coburg, she married Margrave Karl Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth (1736-1806). The marriage was concluded for dynastic reasons. Although Frederica Caroline was considered virtuous, gentle, charitable and devout, her husband found her ugly, ignorant and boring. The marriage remained childless, he separated from his wife, who by that time lived at Schwaningen Castle in Unterschwaningen, and began to live with his mistress Elizabeth Craven.

Frederica Caroline's brother, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, own his sister admission to the regiment as captain, this starting point of his brilliant military career.

Death

After Frederica Caroline's death, her husband abdicated as Margrave and sold the Margravate to Prussia, he left the country and married his English mistress that year. Frederica Caroline is buried in the German: Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach.

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