Spouse Jerome Bonaparte House Wurttemberg | Name Catharina Wurttemberg | |
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Tenure 22 August 1807 - 26 October 1813 Issue Jerome Napoleon Charles BonaparteMathilde BonapartePrince Napoleon Bonaparte | ||
Princess Catharina Frederica of Württemberg (21 February 1783 – 29 November 1835) was the second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, who reigned as King of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813.
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Early life
Catharina was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, to the later King Frederick I of Württemberg and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. When she was five years old, her mother died and her father married her mother's first cousin Charlotte, Princess Royal.
Marriage and subsequent life
Catharina became Jérôme Bonaparte's second wife when they married on 22 August 1807 at the Royal Palace of Fontainebleau in France. Upon marriage, she became queen consort of the Kingdom of Westphalia. When the kingdom was dissolved after the downfall of the Napoleonic Empire, she followed her husband into exile.
She and her husband had the following children:
In November 1835, Catharina died in Lausanne, Switzerland.