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Died on this day in 1827 aged 63 Prince Frederick(my toy,wikipedia). Child of George III and brother of George IV; he would have been King but died before George IV, so William (IV) his younger brother was King instead. His wife Frederika was his cousin (wikipedia knows this but my database doesn't yet) and the daughter of the King of Prussia (there were more German alliances (I think) after we imported Germans to be King...) I remember having at one point a set of siblings who all married a Frederik or a Frederika (I forget who), it seems to have been a popular name in German parts (indeed Frederick's siblings-in-law include two). He had no legitimate children, probably because he didn't much like his wife.

Born on this day in 1209 to King John of England and Isabella of Angouleme Richard(my toy,wikipedia). Richard was Count of Poitou (England was still holding onto much of France); he got himself elected King of Germany, which seems a bit surprising really. He had three wives (not closely related to any of them) and outlived two of them. 5 living children by two of the wives, only 2 survived to adulthood. This is not an unusually low number of children for the age (I might witter more about that at some other time).