Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria

Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria
Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine
Tenure	5 March 1848 - 25 May 1862.
Born	(1813-08-30)30 August 1813
Died	25 May 1862(1862-05-25) (aged 48) Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse
Spouse	Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Ludwig I of Bavaria
Mother	Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (Template:Lang-de) (Augsburg, August 30, 1813 – Darmstadt, May 25, 1862) was the second child and eldest daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Marriage

On 26 December 1833 in Munich, Mathilde married The Hereditary Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (1806–1877), eldest son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmine of Baden. Ludwig succeeded his father as Grand Duke Ludwig III in 1848. The marriage was childless.

Honours

• Spain : 567th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa - .

Ancestry

Family of Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria

16. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 8. Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld 17. Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken 4. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria 18. Joseph Karl Emanuel August, Pfalzgraf von Sulzbach 9. Maria Francisca of Sulzbach 19. Elizabeth Augusta Sophie, Pfalzgräfin von Neuburg 2. Ludwig I of Bavaria 20. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt 10. Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt (=30) 21. Charlotte Christine Magdalene Johanna of Hanau-Lichtenberg 5. Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt 22. Christian Karl Reinhard, Count of Leiningen Dachsburg 11. Louise of Leiningen-Heidesheim (=31) 23. Katharine Polyxene, Countess of Solms Rodelheim 1. Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria 24. Ernst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen 12. Ernst Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen 25. Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau 6. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg 26. Ernest August I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar 13. Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar 27. Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth 3. Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen 28. Charles I Ludwig Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 14. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 29. Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen 7. Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 30. Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt (=10) 15. Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt 31. Louise of Leiningen-Heidesheim (=11)