Biography of Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden 1688-1741
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 1601-1659
On 13 Feb 1660 [her grandfather] Charles Gustav X King Sweden (age 37) died. His son [her father] Charles XI King Sweden (age 4) succeeded XI King Sweden.
On 06 May 1680 [her father] Charles XI King Sweden (age 24) and [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Frederick III King Denmark and Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark (age 52).
On 23 Jan 1688 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden (age 32) and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 31).
On 26 Jul 1693 [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 36) died.
On 05 Apr 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 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).
On 26 Apr 1709 John William Friso Orange Nassau Prince Nassau Dietz (age 21) and [her future sister-in-law] Marie Louise Hesse-Kassel Princess Nassau Dietz (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel (age 54) and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel (age 55).
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.
On 11 Dec 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 Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 30) succeeded Queen Sweden. She effectively usurped her nephew Charles Frederick Duke of Holstein Gottorp (age 18) whose parents were both dead.
On 29 Feb 1720 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 32) abdicated King Sweden. On 24 Mar 1720 her husband [her husband] Frederick I King Sweden (age 43) was appointed I King Sweden.
On 24 Nov 1741 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden (age 53) died.
On 05 Apr 1751 [her former husband] Frederick I King Sweden (age 74) died. His fifth cousin twice removed Adolph Frederick King Sweden (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 18 Grand Daughter of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Philip "Bold" III King France
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