Duchess Frederica of Württemberg was a daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg and Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
Background
Frederica was born on 27 July 1765 in Treptow an der Rega, Farther Pomerania (now Trzebiatów, Poland) as the seventh child and second daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg and his wife Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
Career
Frederica"s paternal grandparents were Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg and Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis. Her maternal grandparents were Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great. At the age of twenty, Frederica died from childbirth in Vienna on 24 November 1785.
Her widowed husband Peter never remarried.
Membership
The marriage was meant to strengthen relations between Russia and Württemberg (Frederica"s sister was married to Paul I of Russia, a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp).