Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg

Karl ( Friedrich Ludwig ), Duke of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ] ( born February 23, 1708 Strelitz, † June 4, 1752 in Mirow, called " Prince of Mirow " ), was a prince of the House of Mecklenburg -Strelitz. Two of his sons, Adolf Friedrich ( IV ) and Karl ( II ), were later regent of Mecklenburg -Strelitz, a daughter became Queen of Great Britain.

Life

Charles was the youngest son of apanagiert since 1701 in Mecklenburg -Strelitz reigning Duke Adolf Friedrich II with Mirow. There he lived with his family first on the castle island, later in the so-called lower or New Castle.

After the death of his father to the throne fell in Mecklenburg -Strelitz Charles 's older half-brother Adolf Friedrich III. about. Once it was known that from his marriage no male successor would emerge, increased the political importance of Mirow branch line that would make all probability, the future heir to the throne on the principle of Sekundogenitur. Whether 1738 was already the choice of name of Charles 's firstborn son Adolf Friedrich ( IV ) under this proviso is not (yet) sure is. It is noteworthy that five of the nine reigning princes of Mecklenburg -Strelitz the name Adolf Friedrich contributed, had thus emerged a house tradition in this naming. The political showdown in Mecklenburg between the reigning Duke and the knights who saw their allies in Karl, before and during the negotiations for the 1755 closed country fundamental statutory Erbvergleichs strain on the relations of the two half-brothers growing.

Since the mid- 1730s gathered Karl Mirow in a greater number of young noblemen and academics around, who scored in the second half of the century to the intellectual elite of the small südostmecklenburgischen Ländchen. He used contacts for later Prussian King Friedrich ( II ) in Rheinberg, as well as with Hanover and lived in a time typical pietistic piety more moderate severity. On Karl's insistence, the early work of Samuel Buchholz, one of the great historians of the late Enlightenment Brandenburg was born.

When Charles died 44 years old in 1752, his first-born Prince of Mecklenburg -Strelitz and was - as well as Charles' brother died six months after him without male descendants - IV under considerable political turmoil as Adolf Friedrich reigning prince of Strelitzer part of the country.

Marriage and issue

Duke Charles married on February 5, 1735 in Princess Elizabeth Albertine ice rink, daughter of Duke Ernst Friedrich I of Saxe- Hildburghausen, the - appointed by the Emperor as guardian of their children - for their older son later temporarily led the regency in Mecklenburg -Strelitz. In guardianship dispute of 1752/53, in the Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg -Schwerin as the next male relative claimed the guardianship at least for the eldest son for themselves, they played a central role.

From this marriage ten children were born, six of whom survived to adulthood:

  • Christiane (1735-1794)
  • Adolf Friedrich IV (1738-1794), ( ruling ) Duke of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ]
  • Charles II (1741-1816), ( ruling ) Duke, later Grand Duke of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ]
  • Ernst (1742-1814)
  • Sophie Charlotte (1744-1818) ∞ 1761 King George III. of Great Britain
  • Georg (August) ( 1748-1785 ), Imperial Major General in Hungary

Prince Georg August

Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Appanage Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Secundogeniture Rheinsberg Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Eisfeld Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg
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