Duke Louis of Württemberg

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Duke Louis of Württemberg (Ludwig Friedrich Alexander Duke of Württemberg), (Treptow, 30 August 1756Kirchheim unter Teck, 20 September 1817) is an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

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Biography

He was the second son of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (1732-1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736-1798). His elder brother was Frederick I, the first king of Württemberg. Louis retained the pre-royal title of Duke.

Louis Frederick was a general in the cavalry.

He married on 28 October 1784 with Maria Czartoryska (1768-1854), daughter of Prince Adam Czartoryski and Isabella, Countess Flemming.
They had one child before they divorced in 1793 :

On 28 January 1797 in Hermitage, near Bayreuth, Louis Frederick remarried Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau, daughter of Charles Christian, Duke of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.
They had 5 children:

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