Karl Friedrich Holstein-Gottorp (1700 - 1739)

Born 30 Apr 1700 in Sweden

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Died 18 Jun 1739 at age 39 in Rolfshagen, Grafschaft Schaumburg, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany

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Charles Frederick Holstein-Gottorp was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

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Duke Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp (German: Karl Friedrich, Herzog zu Holstein-Gottorp) (30 April 1700 – 18 June 1739) was the son of Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp and his consort, Hedvig Sophia, daughter of King Charles XI of Sweden. He became reigning duke in infancy, upon his father's death in 1702, and all his life was a legitimate claimant to the throne of Sweden, as pro forma heir to Charles XII, who was his maternal uncle.

Charles Frederick was born in Sweden, where his parents had been offered safety during the outbreak of the Great Northern war by his maternal uncle, Charles XII of Sweden. He succeeded to the duchy at the age of two after the death of his father. Duke Charles Frederick was under the regency of his mother, with whom he resided in Stockholm. After the death of his mother in 1708, he was placed in the care of his mother's paternal grandmother, Queen Dowager Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.

Before a member of the family of Holstein-Gottorp was to sit on either the Swedish or the Russian throne, Duke Charles Frederick died in 1739 in the Saxon village of Rolfshagen. His grave is in the Cloister Church at Bordesholm.

He is the father of Peter III of Russia, and as such he was a patrilineal ancestor of all Russian emperors after Catherine II.

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Sir William Arbuthnot, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

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