Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt /

Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (June 20, 1754, Prenzlau – June 21, 1832, Bruchsal) was the daughter of Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Henriette Karoline of Palatine-Zweibrücken. Amalie married her first cousin, Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden on July 15, 1775. He was the son of Margrave Charles Frederick (who in 1806, after his father's death, became the 1st Grand Duke of Baden) and Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt, the daughter of Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. Issue: Amalie was brought to Saint Petersburg with her mother in 1772 to visit the Russian court as one of the candidates for a marriage with the Russian Crown Prince Paul; Paul, however, decided upon her sister Wilhelmine. during her marriage, she complained about the coldness of the Margrave Karl Friedrich and the childish behavior of her spouse. She also missed the Prussian and Russian courts. She served ceremoniously as the first lady of the court from the death of her mother in law in 1783 until the marriage of her son in 1806. In 1801, she visited her daughter the Russian Empress in Russia with her family, and thereafter her second daughter, the Swedish Queen, in Sweden in September 1801. During