FREDERICK

See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUIS (1707-1751)  , prince of Wales, eldest son of George II., was born at Hanover on the loth of January 1707 . After his grandfather, George I., became king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714, Frederick was known as duke of Gloucester 1 and made a knight of the Garter, having previously been betrothed to Wilhelmina Sophia Dorothea (1709-1758), daughter of Frederick William I., king of Prussia, and sister of Frederick the Great . Although he was anxious to marry this lady, the match was rendered impossible by the dislike of George H. and Frederick William for each other . Soon after his father became king in 1727 Frederick took up his residence in England and in 1729 was created prince of Wales; but the relations between George II. and his son were very unfriendly, and there existed between. them the jealousy which Stubbs calls the " incurable bane of royalty." The faults were not all on one side . The prince's character was not attractive, and the king refused to make him an adequate allowance . In 1735 Frederick wrote, or inspired the writing of, the Histoire du prince Titi, a book containing offensive caricatures of both king and queen; and losing no opportunity of irritating his father, " he made," says Lecky, " his court the special centre of opposition to the government, and he exerted all his influence for the ruin of Walpole." After a marriage between the prince and Lady Diana Spencer, afterwards the wife of John, 4th duke of Bedford, had been frustrated by Walpole, Frederick was married in April 1736 to 1 Frederick was never actually created duke of Gloucester, and when he was raised to the peerage in 1736 it was as duke of Edinburgh only . See G . E . C(okayne), Complete Peerage, sub " Gloucester." near Berlin, and was buried at the adjacent church of Nikolskoe . His third daughter, Princess Louise Margareta, was married, in March 1879, to the duke of Connaught .