Carl I Alexander Duke of Württemberg (1684–1737) • FamilySearch

Carl I Alexander Duke of Württemberg

24 January 1684–12 March 1737 (Age 53)
Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Life of Carl I

When Carl I Alexander Duke of Württemberg was born on 24 January 1684, in Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Duke Friedrich Karl von Württemberg-Winnental, was 31 and his mother, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach von Hohenzollern, was 20. He married Prinzessin Maria Augusta Anna von Thurn und Taxis on 1 May 1727, in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 12 March 1737, in Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at the age of 53, and was buried in Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, Germany.

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Family Time Line

Carl I Alexander Duke of Württemberg
1684–1737
Prinzessin Maria Augusta Anna von Thurn und Taxis
1706–1756
Marriage: 1 May 1727
Karl Eugen von Württemberg II
1728–1793
Maria Feodorovna
–
Eugen Ludwig Adam Duke Of Württemberg
1729–1729
Ludwig Eugen Johann von Württemberg Herzog von Württemberg
1731–1795
Duke Friedrich II Eugenius Heinrich von Württemberg
1732–1797
Prinz Alexander Eugen von Württemberg
1733–1734
Herzogin Augusta Marie Elisabeth von Württemberg
1734–1787

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
1 May 1727
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
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Name Meaning

Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great ( 356–323 bc )—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria ( ad c.250–326 ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister . Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 .) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (2)

  • Carl Alexander Herzog in entry for Friederich Eugenius Herzog, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
  • Karl I. Alexander von Württemberg, "Find A Grave Index"

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