Charles Ier de Bade

See also: Charles Ier de Bade (1425-1475), Charles Ier

Charles 1st Frederic de Bade (Charles-Frederic de Bade), born on November 22nd, 1728 with Karlsruhe, deceased on June 10th, 1811 with Karlsruhe, is Margrave of Bade-Dulach of 1746 with 1771 then in 1803 voter of Bade and in 1806 large-duke of Bade.

Family

It is wire of Frederic de Bade-Durlach and Anne Charlotte of Nassau-Dietz-Orange.

Charles 1st Frederic de Bade marries the Caroline on January 28th, 1751 of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723 - 1783), (girl of Louis {{VIII}})

Four children are born from this union:

Charles Louis de Bade (1755 - 1801), in 1774 it marries Amélie of Hesse-Darmstadt
Frederic de Bade (1756 - 1817), in 1791 it marries Louise de Nassau-Usingen
Louis {{Ier}} of Bade (1763-1830), large-duke of Bade
Louise de Bade (1767 - 1767).

Widower, Charles 1st Frederic de Bade marries morganatiquement Louise Caroline Geyer von Geyersberg (1768 - 1820), countess von Hochberg, (girl of Louis Henri Geyer von Geyersberg).

Five children are born from this union:

Léopold {{Ier}} of Bade
Louis Guillaume (1792 - 1859), in 1830 it marries Elisabeth of Wurtemberg
Frederic de Bade (1793 - 1793)
Amélie de Bade (1795 - 1869), in 1818 she marries Charles de Fürstenberg
Maximilien Frederic de Bade (1796 - 1882), margrave de Bade.

Born from a marriage morganatic, the children of this second bed are declared not dynastes, they carry the name and the title of their mother (Hochberg, count and countess von Hochberg). But into 1817, the line of Bade-Durlach, known as Ernestine line, being likely to die out, the large-duke Charles de Bade, in order to avoid the heritage of the duchy by the king Maximilien {{Ier}} of Bavaria, changes the law of succession relating to the Grand Duchy of Bade. It gives to the children of Louise Geyer Geyesberg the full dynastic rights on the Grand-Duchy of Bade. During the creation of the constitution of 1818 per Charles Frederic de Bade, their rights to the succession are consolidated, they carry the title of princes and princesses with the title of large-ducal highness of Bade. In 1830 with died of the large-duke Louis {{Ier}}, the last of Bade, Léopold de Hochberg becomes the large-duke Léopold 1st of Bade.

Biography

Charles 1st Frederic de Bade is quoted in example for his right control in his States de Bade, it creates universities, it makes develop town planning, it prohibits the use of torture in his duchy in 1763, slavery in 1783.

He inherits in 1746 the States Charles-Guillaume, his grandfather, joined there the fields of Baden-Baden , which fall to him by succession in 1771, and is high in 1803 with the row of voter of the Empire.

Gràce with the policy followed by its minister Sigismund Freiherr von Reitzenstein, it acquires évêché of Constance, évêché of Basle, évêché of Strasbourg, Speyer, Breisgau, Ortenau.

Mixed with the events with the French revolution, it loses its possessions on left bank of the the Rhine, but it is amply compensated for it by Napoleon {{Ier}}, which increases its States, and which in 1806, gives him the title of large-duke and grants to his grandson, the prince Charles-Louis-Frederic, the hand of his/her adopted girl, Stéphanie, girl of Claude Beauharnais. He dies in 1811, after a long reign.

Charles 1st Frederic belongs to the fourth branch of the Maison of Bade, itself resulting from the first branch of the ducal House of Bade. He belongs to the line of Bade-Durlach, known as line Ernestine , founded by Ernest de Bade-Durlach. This always existing line is currently represented by the prince Maximilien de Bade.

See too

House of Bade

Source

Karl Frédérick off Bade

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