Friedrich Wilhelm III
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Deutsch: Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Preußen
English: Frederick William III of Prussia, 1770–1840 was king of Prussia (1797–1840)
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Frederick William III (de:Friedrich Wilhelm III., August 3 1770 – June 7 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. The son of King Frederick William II of Prussia married Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a princess noted for her beauty. His eldest son, Frederick William IV of Prussia, succeeded him in 1840.
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[edit] Ancestry
| Frederick William III of Prussia | Father: Frederick William II of Prussia |
Paternal Grandfather: Prince Augustus William of Prussia |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Frederick William I of Prussia |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Sophia Dorothea of Hanover |
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| Paternal Grandmother: Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
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| Paternal Great-grandmother: Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
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| Mother: Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt |
Maternal Grandfather: Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Maternal Great-grandmother: Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Müntzenberg |
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| Maternal Grandmother: en:Caroline of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Christian III of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld |
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| Maternal Great-grandmother: Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken |
[edit] Issue
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Unnamed Princess of Prussia | October 7 1794 | October 7 1794 | |
| King Frederick William IV of Prussia | October 15 1795 | January 2 1861 | Married Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, no issue. |
| William I, German Emperor | March 22 1797 | March 9 1888 | Married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, had issue. |
| Princess Charlotte of Prussia | July 13, 1798 | November 1, 1860 | Married Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, had issue. |
| Princess Friederike of Prussia | October 14, 1799 | March 30, 1800 | |
| Prince Carl of Prussia | June 29, 1801 | January 21, 1883 | Married Marie of Saxe-Weimar, had issue. |
| Princess Alexandrine of Prussia | February 23, 1803 | April 21, 1892 | Married Grand Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, had issue. |
| Prince Ferdinand of Prussia | December 13, 1804 | April 1, 1806 | |
| Princess Louise of Prussia | February 1, 1808 | December 6, 1870 | Married Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, had issue. |
| Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872) | October 4, 1809 | October 14, 1872 | Married Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, had issue. |
[edit] Portraits
 Henriette-Félicité Tassaert: FW III as Crown Prince, ca. 1793, after a lost original by Tischbein |
 with his wife Queen Louise, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, ca. 1794 |
 with Louise, painting by Nikolaus Lauer, 1799 |
 with his family, painting by Heinrich Anton Dähling, 1806 |
 with Louise and Czar Alexander I at the tomb of Friedrich II, vowing to challenge Napoleon |
 miniature portrait by Christian Tangermann, ca. 1815 |
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 Friedrich Wilhelm III., portrait by Ernst Gebauer |
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 equestrian portrait by Franz Krüger |
.jpg) portrait by Ernst Gebauer, 1829 |
 Auguste Gräfin von Harrach aka Fürstin Liegnitz, second wife of Friedrich Wilhelm III |
[edit] Monuments
 statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III, today at Burg Hohenzollern, 1885, sculpted for the former Ruhmeshalle in Berlin by Emil Hundrieser |
 monument to Friedrich Wilhelm III. in Berlin (sculptor: Friedrich Drake) |
 (2) monument in Großer Tiergarten (Berlin) |
 equestrian statue in Cologne (1878) |
 equestrian statue in Cologne (1878) with 16 pedestal figures by Gustav Blaeser |
 "King's Column" in Uckerland-Wolfshagen |
