List of Finnish royal consorts

The consorts of Finland were the spouses of the Finnish Monarchs. They used the titles Grand Duchess of Finland, briefly Queen of the Finns, and later Queen consort of Finland:

Duchess of Finland

PictureNameFatherBirthMarriageBecame DuchessCeased to be DuchessDeathSpouse
Christina TorgilsdotterTorkel Knutsson-1302, after 2 December9 December 1305
divorce
-Valdemar
Ingeborg Eriksdottir of NorwayEric II of Norway
(Fairhair)
129729 September 131216 February 1318
husband's death
1353-7
Ingeborg Ulvsdotter of ToftaUlf Abjörnsson
(Sparre)
--1353
husband inherit title
1356-Benedict
Catherine JagellonSigismund I the Old
(Jagellon)
1 November 15264 October 15621563
husband imprisoned and stripped of title
16 September 1583John

Grand Duchess of Finland

House of Vasa

PictureNameFatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Catherine JagiellonSigismund I the Old
(Jagiellon)
1 November 15264 October 15621580s
husband adopted title
16 September 1583Juhana III
Gunilla BielkeJohan Axelsson Bielke
(Bielke)
25 June 156815 February 158517 November 1592
husband's death
19 July 1597
Anna of AustriaCharles II, Archduke of Austria
(Habsburg)
16 August 157331 May 159217 November 1592
husband inherit title
10 February 1598Sigismund
Christina of Holstein-Gottorp
Queen of Finns
Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
(Holstein-Gottorp)
13 April 15738 July 159222 March 1604
husband inherit title
1607
husband adopted title of King of Finns
30 October 1611
husband's death
8 December 1625Kaarle IX
Maria Eleonora of BrandenburgJohn Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg
(Hohenzollern)
11 November 159925 November 16206 November 1632
husband's death
28 March 1655Kustaa II Aadolf

House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken

PictureNameFatherBirthMarriageBecame Grand DuchessCeased to be Grand DuchessDeathSpouse
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-GottorpFrederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
(Holstein-Gottorp)
23 October 163624 October 165413 February 1660
husband's death
24 November 1715Kaarle X Kustaa
Ulrika Eleonora of DenmarkFrederick III of Denmark
(Oldenburg)
11 September 16566 May 168026 July 1693Kaarle XI
Title fell into disuse

House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov

PictureNameFatherBirthMarriageBecame Grand DuchessCeased to be Grand DuchessDeathSpouse
Louise of BadenCharles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
(Zähringen)
24 January 177928 September 179329 March 1809
husband gain title
1 December 1825
husband's death
16 May 1826Aleksanteri I
Charlotte of PrussiaFrederick William III of Prussia
(Hohenzollern)
13 July 179813 July 18171 December 1825
husband's ascension
2 March 1855
husband's death
1 November 1860Nikolai I
Marie of Hesse and by RhineLouis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
8 August 182416 April 18412 March 1855
husband's ascension
8 June 1880Aleksanteri II
Dagmar of DenmarkChristian IX of Denmark
(Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)
26 November 18479 November 186613 March 1881
husband's ascession
1 November 1894
husband's death
13 October 1928Aleksanteri III
Alix of Hesse and by RhineLouis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
6 June 187226 November 18941 November 1894
husband's ascession
15 March 1917
Russian monarchy abolished
17 July 1918Nikolai II

Kingdom of Finland

Queen consort-Elect

House of Hesse-Kassel

PictureNameFatherBirthMarriageBecame QueenCeased to be QueenDeathSpouse
Margaret of PrussiaFrederick III, German Emperor
(Hohenzollern)
22 April 187225 January 18939 October 1918
husband's election
14 December 1918
husband renounced throne
22 January 1954Väinö I

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