Frederica of Baden

Frederica of Baden
Queen of Sweden

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden with his queen consort Frederica of Baden
Reign	1797 (date of marriage) - March 29, 1809 (husband's abdication)
Full name	Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina
Born	March 12, 1781
	Karlsruhe
Died	September 25, 1826
	Lausanne, Switzerland
Consort to	Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden div. 1812
Issue	Gustav, Prince of Vasa Sophie Carl Gustav Amalia Maria Charlotta Cecilia
Royal House	House of Holstein-Gottorp
Father	Karl Ludwig of Baden
Mother	Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden (March 12, 1781 - September 25, 1826) was Queen consort of Sweden from 1797 to 1809. Daughter of Karl Ludwig of Baden and Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, she was the younger sister of Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna (formerly Princess Louise of Baden), wife of Tsar Alexander I of Russia. In 1797, she married King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and became Queen. She was deposed from the throne together with her husband in 1809, after which the family settled in Baden, but her husband was restless and did not want to stay. They were divorced in 1812.

The communities of Fredrika (1799), Dorotea (1799) and Vilhelmina (1804) located in Laponia were named in her honor.

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Crown Prince Gustaf, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa (November 9, 1799–1877)
Princess Sofia Wilhelmina (May 21, 1801–1865), married Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden
Prince Carl Gustaf, Grand Duke of Finland (December 2, 1802–1805)
Princess Amalia Maria Charlotta (February 22, 1805–1853)
Princess Cecilia (June 22, 1807–1844), married August, Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

Gustav would serve as an officer to the Habsburgs of Austria, but would only father one daughter, Carola, the wife of King Albert I of Saxony, but she would died childless.

Sofia Wilhelmina would marry Leopold I of Baden, and their granddaughter, Victoria of Baden, would eventually marry Gustav V of Sweden, thus connecting the House of Bernadotte with the previous Swedish dynasties.