Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden


Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden was heir apparent of the Margraviate of Baden.

Early life and family

Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Margrave Charles Frederick and Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, the daughter of Landgrave Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt.
He was an ancestor of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, Lord Mountbatten and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, among others.

Marriage and issue

On 15 July 1774, Charles Louis married his first cousin Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
They had eight children:
Works of history mention that his children succeeded well in marriage market and that the Hereditary Prince was the force behind that. At the time of his death in Arboga, Sweden, two of his other daughters were, respectively, Electress of Bavaria and the newly ascended Empress of Russia.

Ancestry