Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)
Cecilia of Sweden ( born June 22, 1807 in Stockholm, † January 27, 1844 in Oldenburg) was Princess of Sweden and Grand Duchess of Oldenburg. She was a daughter of Gustav IV Adolf of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp, King of Sweden, and Princess Friederike Dorothea of Baden.
Life
Her father was dethroned in 1809 as a Swedish king and in 1810 expelled from the country. 1812 divorced her parents. The mother moved Cecilia and her three siblings Sophie Amalie and Gustav on with her mother the Countess Amalie of Baden in Bruchsal. When she was 22 years old, her mother died in agony from chest dropsy. Since then, she used her erblindende grandmother.
In October 1830, Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August of Oldenburg, who was on his way to Stuttgart to guest in Bruchsal. The son of Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Duke of Oldenburg was looking for a 60 - minute interview for her hand. She agreed and then moved to Vienna, where her brother was Major General at the Court of Emperor Francis I of Austria. There she was preparing for her wedding, which took place in the presence of the emperor on May 5, 1831. In June 1831 she finally moved to Oldenburg.
She was a composer of the melody of Oldenburg anthem " Hail to thee, O Oldenburg " and participated financially in 1833 the first theater in Oldenburg, a forerunner of the Oldenburg State Theatre. She was awarded the Russian Katharine North and the Bavarian royals Theresa Order. Cecilia is named after a street, a square, leading over the coastal channel Cecilia Bridge, established in 1867, Cecilia school in Oldenburg, as well as the village Cäciliengroden (Landkreis Friesland) at Wilhelmshaven.
Cecilia was not a populist Duchess. Find contact for Oldenburg population was difficult for her. Your warmth experienced only a narrow circle. On January 28, 1844, five days after the birth of her third child, Cecilia died of Oldenburg at the age of 36 years of puerperal fever.
Progeny
- Alexander Friedrich Gustav ( born June 16, 1834 † June 6, 1835 )
- Nikolaus Friedrich August (* February 15, 1836, † April 30, 1837 )
- Anton Günther Friedrich Elimar (* January 23, 1844, † October 17, 1895 )