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Marie of Baden
Princess Marie of Baden
Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Tenure	16 October 1806 – 8 July 1807
Born	(1782-09-07)7 September 1782 Karlsruhe
Died	20 April 1808(1808-04-20) (aged 25) Bruchsal
Spouse	Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ​ ​(m. 1802)​
Issue More…	Charles II, Duke of Brunswick William, Duke of Brunswick
House	Zähringen
Father	Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
Mother	Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

Marie of Baden (Marie Elisabeth Wilhelmine; 7 September 1782 – 20 April 1808) was Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick-Oels. She was married to Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Early life

Marie Elisabeth Wilhelmine was born as the seventh child and fifth daughter of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden and his wife, Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Biography

Marie was born in Karlsruhe. At the time of the war against France, she stayed at Prenzlau. In 1806, her father-in-law fled from the troops of Napoleon to Altona, where he died of the wounds he sustained in the war against France. Marie and her mother-in-law, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, came to see him at his sick-bed, but when the French army headed toward Hamburg, they were advised by the British ambassador to flee, and left shortly before his death. They were both invited to Sweden by Marie's brother-in-law king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. Augusta preferred to stay with her niece, Louise Augusta of Denmark in Augustenburg, but Marie accepted the offer and joined the king and queen of Sweden with her children at Malmö, were the royal family stayed without ceremony and much court life at the time to be close to the warfront during the unstable political situation. Her spouse was granted permission by the emperor to stay in Altona.

Her brother, the Hereditary Prince of Baden, was married to Stephanie de Beauharnais, and an ally of Napoleon, and joined the emperor in Berlin at the same time. Napoleon refused to see Marie's consort but said that he would like to see her, and Marie's brother wrote to her and asked her to come to Napoleon in Berlin as the ambassador of Brunswick to speak on behalf of her husband. She accepted the suggestion and travelled alone toward Berlin, but was stopped in Stralsund on the order of her husband, as it was believed at the time that Napoleon had plans to marry her to his brother Jérôme Bonaparte. Her husband was reportedly genuinely fond of her and visited her incognito in Sweden two times, despite the fact that Sweden was considered enemy territory by Napoleon.

During her stay in Sweden Marie lived with the royal family in Malmö, where they stayed informally during her stay, rather than in state in Stockholm. She was reportedly used to an informal interaction with her ladies-in-waiting and felt restricted in the household of her strict and temperamental brother-in-law the king, whom she found it difficult to get along with. In May 1807, her sister, queen Frederica, was leaving Malmö and returning to the court at Stockholm to give birth, and asked Marie to come with her, but Marie's husband demanded her to return to Germany, which she did.

Family

On 1 November 1802, in Karlsruhe, Marie married Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Marie had three children before she died at Bruchsal of puerperal fever four days after giving birth to a stillborn daughter.

• Charles (30 October 1804 – 18 August 1873)
• William (25 April 1806 – 18 October 1884)
• Stillborn daughter (b. & d. 16 April 1808 Bruchsal)

Ancestry

Notes

1. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1936) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VII 1800-1806. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. p. 471. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
2. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1936) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VII 1800-1806. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. p. 473. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
3. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1936) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VII 1800-1806. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. pp. 483–484. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
4. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1939) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VIII 1807-1811. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. p. 25. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
5. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1939) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VIII 1807-1811. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. pp. 38–39. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
6. Charlottas, Hedvig Elisabeth (1939) . af Klercker, Cecilia (ed.). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok [The diary of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte] (in Swedish). Vol. VIII 1807-1811. Translated by Cecilia af Klercker. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. p. 38. OCLC 14111333. (search for all versions on WorldCat)
7. Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. pp. 38 (father), 69 (mother).

• 1782 births
• 1808 deaths
• 18th-century people from the Holy Roman Empire
• Deaths in childbirth
• House of Zähringen
• House of Brunswick-Bevern
• Duchesses of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Nobility from Karlsruhe
• Mothers of German monarchs