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| title       = Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| name = Princess Caroline Louise
| full name =Karoline Luise
| image       = Karoline Mecklenburg-Schwerin.jpg
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| spouse      =[[Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]
| issue       =Duke Albert<br/> [[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Hélène, Duchess of Orléans]] <br/>Duke Magnus
| house    =[[House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach|Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
| father      =[[Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
| mother      =[[Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757–1830)|Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
| birth_date  ={{birth date|1786|7|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Stadtschloss, [[Weimar]]
| death_date  ={{death date and age|1816|1|20|1786|7|18|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Schloss Ludwigslust]], [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Mecklenburg]]
}}
'''Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach''' (Karoline Luise; 18 July 1786 &ndash; 20 January 1816) was a princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by virtue of her marriage. She was the daughter of [[Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] and his wife [[Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757–1830)|Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt]].
==Infancy==
[[File:Tischbein, Kinder Carl August@Weimar Schlossmuseum.JPG|thumb|250px|upright|Karoline with her brothers Karl Friedrich (right) and Bernhard, painting by [[Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein]] 1795]]
Caroline was born at the Stadtschloss in [[Weimar]]. She was a [[Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach|princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] by birth. The second of three children to reach adulthood, her older brother [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach|Charles Frederick]] succeeded their father as Grand Duke in 1828. One of Caroline's nieces was [[Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach|Empress Augusta of Germany]], wife of [[William I, German Emperor]].
==Hereditary Grand Duchess==
On 1 July 1810 she became the second wife of [[Frederick Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Frederick Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]. The Hereditary Grand Duke had lost his first wife [[Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia|Elena Pavlovna of Russia]] in September 1804 having died of [[influenza]]. Caroline Louise gave her husband three children. Her only daughter married [[Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans|son of Louis Philippe I of the French]]. She had a loving relationship with her husband.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
After the birth of her youngest child, Prince Magnus, her health never recovered and she died aged twenty nine at the [[Schloss Ludwigslust]]. In her deathbed, she suggested her husband should remarry, to her cousin [[Landgravine Auguste of Hesse-Homburg|Auguste Fredericka]], daughter of [[Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg|Frederick V of Hesse-Homburg]]; they married in April 1818.
==Issue==
#Albert of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1812–1834) died unmarried.
#[[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Hélène of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] (1814–1858) married [[Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans]] and had issue.
#Magnus of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1815–1816) died in infancy.
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. ''' Princess Caroline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach'''
|2= 2. [[Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|3= 3. [[Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757–1830)|Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|4= 4. [[Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|5= 5. [[Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|6= 6. [[Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|7= 7. [[Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken]]
|8= 8. [[Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|9= 9. [[Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]]
|10= 10. [[Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|11= 11. [[Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia]]
|12= 12. [[Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|13= 13. [[Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg]]
|14= 14. [[Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]]
|15= 15. Countess [[Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken]]
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==Bibliography==
* {{in lang|fr}} Hélène de Mecklembourg-Schwerin; ''Madame la duchesse d'Orléans''; Nouvelle édition. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1859. DC 269 .O7 M34 1859
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