Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden 1688-1741

On 6th May 1680 Charles XI King Sweden [aged 24] and [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Frederick III King of Denmark and [her grandmother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 52]. He the son of Charles Gustav X King Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora Queen Consort Sweden [aged 43]. They were third cousin twice removed.

On 23rd January 1688 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden [aged 32] and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg [aged 31].

On 26th July 1693 [her mother] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg [aged 36] died.

On 5th April 1697 Charles XI King Sweden [aged 41] died.

In 1700 Frederick I King Sweden [aged 23] and Louise Dorothea Hohenzollern [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of Frederick I King Prussia [aged 42] and Elisabeth Henriëtte Hesse-Kassel. He the son of [her future father-in-law] Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel [aged 45] and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel [aged 46]. They were first cousins.

In 1702. David von Krafft [aged 47]. Portrait of Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden [aged 13].

In 1715 Frederick I King Sweden [aged 38] and Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of Charles XI King Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg. He the son of Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel [aged 60] and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel. They were third cousin once removed.

On 11th December 1718 [her brother] Charles XII King of Sweden [aged 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 [aged 30] succeeded Queen Sweden. She effectively usurped her nephew Charles Frederick Duke of Holstein Gottorp [aged 18] whose parents were both dead.

On 29th February 1720 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden [aged 32] abdicated King Sweden. On 24th March 1720 her husband Frederick I King Sweden [aged 43] was appointed I King Sweden.

On 24th November 1741 Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden [aged 53] died.

On 5th April 1751 Frederick I King Sweden [aged 74] died. His third cousin once removed Adolph [aged 40] succeeded King Sweden. He the first king of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.