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Frederick William Iii Of Prussia

Frederick William III
King of Prussia

Frederick William III, by Anton Graff

Reign
16 November 1797 - 7 June 1840 &&&&&&&&&& 015 543 42 years, 6 months and 21 days
Dynasty	Hohenzollern
Full track	Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg
Predecessor	Frederick William II
Successor	Frederick William IV

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Biography
Birth	3 August 1770
	Potsdam , Prussia
Deaths	7 June 1840 (69 years)
	Berlin , Prussia
Father	Frederick William II
Mother	Frederica of Hesse-Darmstadt
Spouse (s)	Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Descent	Frederick William (1795-1861), William I said Le Grand , Charlotte Wilhelmine ( one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight - in 1860 ), etc..


Kings of Prussia

Frederick William III (3 August 1770 at Potsdam - June 7, 1840 ) reigned as King of Prussia , 16 November 1797 to his death.

Biography

Son of King Frederick William II and Frederica of Hesse-Darmstadt , he married in 1793 Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( 1776 - 1810 ), daughter of Charles II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Frederica of Hesse-Darmstadt, noted for a princess her beauty that was to exert a strong influence from 1807 until his death in 1810.

Became king, he immediately dismissed the mentor of his father, Johann Christoph von Wllner (1732 - 1800). With his advisors, the Counts von Goltz and von Haugwitz , he tried to maintain a policy of neutrality during the Napoleonic wars , causing discontent of Tsar Alexander I. Although not part of the third coalition in 1805, he joined the allies of the Russians under pressure in October 1806. His army was annihilated at the Battle of Jena and the Battle of Auerstadt. Pursued by the French until East Prussia, he had to then go into exile with the remnants of his army in the Tsar Alexander ^I (who was, according to rumor, fell in love with Queen Louise).

But in 1807, his host Alexander I in turn defeated by the French. The peace was signed at Tilsit on the Niemen , but Prussia must abandon all the territories of Poland and pay for the occupation of French troops in strategic locations in the country.

The king accepted the situation but, at the instigation of the queen (who died in 1810), several ministers, including the Baron Karl vom Stein , Prince Karl August von Hardenberg , Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst , and Count August von Gneisenau , reformed the administration and the army for revenge.

In 1813, after the defeat of the Grand Army in Russia , he signed an alliance with Russia in the Treaty of Kalitsch and left Berlin under French control. Prussian troops played a decisive role in the victories of the allies.

At the Congress of Vienna , his negotiators were granted vast territories except the annexation of the entire Saxony he hoped. He abandoned his promise to give Prussia a constitution. His eldest son, Frederick William , succeeded to the throne.

Marriages and descendants

In 1793 , Frederick William III of Prussia married Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( 1776 - 1810 ), daughter of Charles II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Nine children were born of this union:

Frederick William , King of Prussia (1795-1861) in 1823 married Elizabeth of Bavaria (1801-1873) without issue
William (Wilhelm) , (called The Great), regent (1858) and King of Prussia (1861) and German Emperor (1871) married in 1829 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890) sister of Maria (which follows ...)
Wilhelmine Charlotte (Alexandra Feodorovna in Orthodoxy), ( 1798 - 1860 ), in 1817 , she married Nicolas I of Russia ( 1796 - 1855 )
Frdrique ( 1 799 - eighteen hundred )
Charles Frederick ( 1,801 - 1 883 ) in 1827 , he married Maria ( 1808 - 1877 ), daughter of Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ) whom he had the Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
Alexandria ( 1803 - one thousand eight hundred ninety-two ) in 1822 , she married Grand Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( 1800 - 1842 )
Ferdinand ( in 1804 - in 1806 )
Louise ( 1808 - in 1870 ), in 1825 , she married Frederick of the Netherlands ( 1797 - 1881 ), (son of William I of Netherlands )
Albert Frederick ( in 1809 - one thousand eight hundred seventy-two ) in 1830 , he married Marianne of the Netherlands ( 1810 - 1883 ) (divorced 1849 ) (daughter of William I of the Netherlands ). In 1853 he married morganatically Rosalie von Rauch , Countess titled Hohenau Rosalie ( 1820 - 1879 ), daughter of General von Rauch , Secretary of War, (five children). He was expelled from the house of Hohenzollern because of her marriage morganatic.

Widower, Frederick William III of Prussia married in 1824 Augusta von Harrach, created Countess of Hohenzollern ( 1800 - 1873 ), daughter of Wilhelm von Harrach).

Genealogy

Frederick William III of Prussia belongs to the first branch of the House of Hohenzollern. This line gave electors , kings, emperors in Prussia , the German. Frederick William III of Prussia is the ascendancy of the current head of the Imperial House of Germany, Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia.