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Maternal Family Tree: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 1601-1659
On 6th May 1680 [her father] Charles XI King Sweden (age 24) and [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 23) were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Frederick III King Denmark and [her grandmother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark (age 52).
On 23rd January 1688 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden (age 32) and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 31).
On 26th July 1693 [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 36) died.
On 5th April 1697 [her father] Charles XI King Sweden (age 41) died.
In 1700 [her future husband] Frederick I King Sweden (age 23) and Louise Dorothea Hohenzollern (age 19) were married. She the daughter of Frederick I King Prussia (age 42) and Elisabeth Henriëtte Hesse-Kassel. He the son of [her future father-in-law] Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel (age 45) and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel (age 46). They were first cousins.
In 1702. David von Krafft (age 47). Portrait of Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 13).
In 1715 Frederick I King Sweden (age 38) and Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Charles XI King Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg. He the son of Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel (age 60) and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 11th December 1718 [her brother] Charles XII King of Sweden (age 36) was killed whilst in the trenches around Fredriksten which his army was besieging. He was struck in the head by a projectile and killed. The shot struck the left side of his skull and exited from the right. It isn't clear who fired the shot. His sister Ulrika (age 30) succeeded Queen Sweden. She effectively usurped her nephew Charles Frederick Duke of Holstein Gottorp (age 18) whose parents were both dead.
On 29th February 1720 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 32) abdicated King Sweden. On 24th March 1720 her husband [her husband] Frederick I King Sweden (age 43) was appointed I King Sweden.
On 24th November 1741 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 53) died.
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 5th April 1751 [her former husband] Frederick I King Sweden (age 74) died. His fifth cousin twice removed Adolph (age 40) succeeded King Sweden. He the first king of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
GrandFather: Charles Gustav X King Sweden
Father: Charles XI King Sweden
Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark
Great x 3 Grandfather: Christian III King Denmark 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Frederick II King Denmark 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway
Great x 1 Grandfather: Christian IV King Denmark 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Albrecht VII Duke Mecklenburg
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ulrich Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Hohenzollern Duchess Mecklenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophie Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: Frederick III King Denmark 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Mother: Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg
GrandMother: Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Landgrave George I of Hesse Darmstadt 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England