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Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804–1881)

German nobleman (1804–1881)

Summary

German nobleman (1804–1881)

Field	Value
name	Duke Alexander
image	File:Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Württemberg.jpg
caption	Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1845
spouse
issue	Duke Philipp
full name	Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander
house	Württemberg
father	Duke Alexander of Württemberg
mother	Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
birth_date
birth_place	Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
death_date
death_place	Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria

Duke Alexander of Württemberg (20 December 1804 – 28 October 1881) was a member of the dynasty which ruled the German Kingdom of Württemberg. To marry a daughter of the French king he agreed that their children would be raised in their mother's faith, thereby becoming ancestor of the Roman Catholic branch of his family.

Biography

He was the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. He was a first cousin of Queen Victoria and of her husband, Prince Albert. As a young man, Alexander was considered a possible marriage candidate for Victoria. In June 1833 he and his brother Ernest visited Kensington Palace. Victoria wrote in her journal, "Alexander is very handsome and Ernest has a very kind expression. They are both extremely amiable."

Marriage

On 17 October 1837 he married Princess Marie of Orléans (1813–1839), daughter of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. They had one child:

Duke Philipp of Württemberg (30 July 1838—11 October 1917) he married Archduchess Marie Thérèse of Teschen on 18 January 1865. They had five children.

Alexander of Württemberg belonged to the fifth branch (called the ducal branch) of the House of Württemberg, descended from the seventh son of Frederick Eugene, ruler of Württemberg from 1795 to 1797. On the extinction of the direct line of kings in 1921, the ducal branch became the senior dynastic line of the deposed royal family. The House of Württemberg's two morganatic branches - the Dukes of Teck (extinct in the male line in 1981) and the Dukes of Urach - were senior by primogeniture to the ducal branch, but were ineligible to inherit the throne.

Duke Alexander is the direct male line ancestor of Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg, the current claimant to the kingdom of Württemberg.

Honours

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Meiningen Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, December 1833
Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 23 December 1841
Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1851

Ancestry

References

Williams, Kate. (2010). "Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch". Ballantine Books.
''Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha'' (1837), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. [https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00244577/Sachsen_Coburg_Gotha_165771801_1837_0030.tif?logicalDiv=jportal_jparticle_00473385 11]
H. Tarlier. (1854). "Almanach royal officiel, publié, exécution d'un arrête du roi".
(1879). "Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1879". Landesamt.

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