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Frederick I
Portrait by Georg Engelhard Schröder, c. 1730s
King of Sweden
Reign
24 March 1720 – 5 April 1751
Coronation
3 May 1720
Predecessor
Ulrika Eleonora
Successor
Adolf Frederick
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Reign
23 March 1730 – 5 April 1751
Predecessor
Charles I
Successor
William VIII
Prince consort of Sweden
Tenure
5 December 1718 – 29 February 1720
Born
(1676-04-28)28 April 1676 Kassel, Hesse-Kassel
Died
5 April 1751(1751-04-05) (aged 74) Stockholm, Sweden
Burial
27 September 1751
Riddarholmen Church
Spouses
Luise Dorothea of Prussia
(m. 1700; died 1705)
Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden
(m. 1715; died 1741)
Issue more...
Frederick William von Hessenstein
House
Hesse-Kassel
Father
Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Mother
Maria Amalia of Courland
Religion
Protestant
Signature
Frederick I (Swedish: Fredrik I; 28 April 1676 – 5 April 1751) was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother-in-law absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, and the abdication of his wife, Charles's sister and successor Ulrika Eleonora, after she had to relinquish most powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and thus chose to abdicate. His powerless reign and lack of legitimate heirs of his own saw his family's elimination from the line of succession after the parliamentary government dominated by pro-revanchist Hat Party politicians ventured into a war with Russia, which ended in defeat and the Russian tsarina Elizabeth getting Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp instated following the death of the king. Whilst being the only Swedish monarch called Frederick, he was Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel and thus Frederick I also of Sweden, though other Swedish monarchs with non-repeating names (such as Birger, Sigismund and Frederick's successor: Adolf Frederick) had not been enumerated.
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