Frederick

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Frederick

king of Sweden

Also known as: Frederick of Hessen

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Born:: April 17, 1676, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]

Died:: March 25, 1751, Stockholm (aged 74)

Title / Office:: king (1720-1751), Sweden

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Frederick (I) (born April 17, 1676, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—died March 25, 1751, Stockholm) was the first Swedish king to reign (1720–51) during the 18th-century Age of Freedom, a period of parliamentary government. Frederick was the eldest surviving son of the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. He fought bravely for England during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14). His marriage in 1700 to Louise of Prussia ended with her death in 1705, and in 1715 he married Ulrika Eleonora, sister of Charles XII of Sweden, after first proposing in 1708. She succeeded to the Swedish throne at the death of Charles XII ...(100 of 166 words)

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