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Frederick I ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816) was the ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to his death. He was the last Duke of Württemberg from 1797 to 1803, then the first and only Elector of Württemberg from 1803 to 1806, before raising Württemberg to a kingdom in 1806 with the approval of Napoleon I.
In 1806, Württemberg became a kingdom, while Frederick I was its first king. In Frederick's time, the Kingdom of Württemberg encompassed a land area of 1,950,800 hectares. The first king in the history of the German Württemberg dynasty died on this day in 1816. His name was Frederick I, and he belonged to the dynasty which had ruled ...
"Frederick I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816) was the ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to his death. He was the last Duke of Württemberg from 1797 to 1803, then the first and only Elector of Württemberg from 1803 to 1806, before raising Württemberg to a kingdom in 1806 with the approval of Napoleon I.
Oct 30, 2013 · Frederick I William Charles of Württemberg (Friedrich I Wilhelm Karl von Württemberg; Treptow an der Rega, Poland, 6th November 1754 – Stuttgart, Germany, 30th October 1816) Frederick I of Württemberg by Johann Baptist Seele. Not so long ago we met Charlotte, Princess Royal, and briefly encountered her husband, Frederick I of Württemberg.
In return for providing France with a large auxiliary force to be used in the ensuing struggle in the winter of 1805, Napoleon was to recognize the Elector as King of Württemberg on 26 December 1805. Elector Frederick became King when he formally ascended the throne on 1 January and was crowned as such on the same day at Stuttgart, Germany.
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg, later Duke of Württemberg, and Frederick I, King of Württemberg (1805), was the eldest son of Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg and Frederica, daughter of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. He married, firstly, in 1780, Augusta, eldest daughter of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, by whom he had four children, and secondly, in 1797 ...
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Friedrich I of Württemberg was the son of George of Mömpelgard and his wife Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Several references are made to him in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a series of anti-German jokes start with a horse theft, several references are made to German travellers in England and to a German duke who is not expected to come to ...
