Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia

Frederic-Guillaume III (August 3rd 1770 with Potsdam - June 7th 1840) reigned as king of Prussia of November 16th 1797 with its death.

Wire of the king Frederic-Guillaume II and Frederique of Hesse-Darmstadt, it marries Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz, (1752 - 1785) (girl of Charles II of Mecklembourg-Strelitz a princess noticed for her beauty, but which was to prove to be the true Head of the State after 1807.

Become king, him and his advisers tried to maintain a policy of neutrality at the time of the Napoleonean Guerres. Although it does not make to part of the Third coalition in 1805, it joined the allies in October 1806. Its army was immediately destroyed with the Bataille of Iéna. It must then be exiled at the tsar Alexandre Ier (who was, according to the rumor, fallen in love with the Louise queen).

Alexandre is also beaten by the French. The peace is signed with Tilsit on Niemen, but Prussia must give up all its territories Polish and pay the expenses of the occupation of the French troops in strategic points of the country.

The king accepted the situation but, at the instigation of the queen (who dies in 1810), several ministers, of which the baron Karl vom Stein, the prince Karl August von Hardenberg, Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, and the count August von Gneisenau, reformed the administration and the army for revenge.

In 1813, after the defeat of the Large army in Russia, it signed an alliance with this country in the Traité of Kalitsch and left Berlin under control of the French. The Prussian troops played a decisive part in the victories of the allies.

With the Congress of Vienna, its negotiators obtained vast territories except the annexation of all the Saxony which he hoped for. It gave up its promises to equip Prussia with a constitution. Its wire elder succeeded to him on the throne.

Marriages and descent

In 1793, Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia married Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (1752 - 1785), (girl of Charles II of Mecklembourg-Strelitz.

Last nine children were born from this union:

Frederic-Guillaume IV of Prussia, king de Prusse

Guillaume Ier of Prussia, (known as the Large one), king de Prusse

Charlotte Wilhelmine of Prussia (in orthodoxe religion Alexandra Feodorovna), (1798 - 1860), in 1817, it married Nicolas Ier of Russia (1796 - 1855)

Frederique of Prussia (1799 - 1800)

Charles Frederic of Prussia (1801 - 1833), in 1827, it married Maria of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach (1808 - 1877), (girl of the large-duke Frederic-Charles of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach)

Alexandrine of Prussia (1803 - 1892), in 1822, it married the large-duke Paul-Frederic de Mecklembourg-Schwerin (1800 - 1842)

Ferdinand of Prussia (1804 - 1806)

Louise of Prussia (1808 - 1870), in 1825, it married Frederic of the Netherlands (1797 - 1881), (wire of Guillaume Ier of the Netherlands)

Albert Frederic of Prussia (1809 - 1872), in 1830, it married Marianne of the Netherlands (1810 - 1883), (divorced in 1849), (girl Guillaume Ier of the Netherlands). In 1853, it married the countess Rosalie de Hohenau (1820 - 1879), girl of Guillaume von Rauch (five children).

Widower, Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia married in 1824 Augusta von Harrach, countess of Hohenzollern (1800 - 1873), girl of Guillaume von Harrach).

Genealogy

Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia belongs to the first branch of the Maison of Hohenzollern. This line gave voters, kings, emperors with the Prussia, the Germany. Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia is ascending current chief of the imperial House of Germany, the prince Georges Frederic of Prussia.

Anecdotes

Ludwig van Beethoven honoured it in October 1826 with the dedication of its Ninth symphony

Internal bonds

Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt (maternal grandfather)

Sources

Genealogies of the kings and the princes of Jean-Charles Volkmann, Edition: Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)

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