Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine von Baden

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English: Frederica Caroline Wilhelmina of Baden (In Germany more common as Königin Karoline von Bayern) was the eldest daughter and child of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden and his wife, Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was born July 13, 1776, twin sister of Katharina Amalie Christiane Luise. On March 9, 1797 in Karlsruhe, she became the second wife of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, who two years later would inherit the Electorate of Bavaria. In the ensuing years she advanced from Electress to Queen (1806). She bore eight children:

Caroline of Baden died November 13, 1841, outliving her husband by sixteen years and one month.

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