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{{Infobox royalty
| consort = yes
| name = Mathilde Caroline
| succession = [[list of Hessian consorts|Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine]]
| reign = 5 March 1848 – 25 May 1862
| image = Mathilde, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1813-62) 1861.jpg
| caption = Mathilde Caroline in 1861
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1813|8|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Augsburg]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[Confederation of the Rhine]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1862|5|25|1813|8|30|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Darmstadt]], [[Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine]], [[German Confederation]]
| house = [[House of Wittelsbach|Wittelsbach]]
| father = [[Ludwig I, King of Bavaria|Ludwig I of Bavaria]]
| mother = [[Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse]]|26 December 1833}}
}}
'''Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria''' ({{langx|de| Mathilde Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte von Bayern}}) ([[Augsburg]], 
30 August 1813 &ndash; [[Darmstadt]], 25 May 1862) was the second child and eldest daughter of [[Ludwig I, King of Bavaria|Ludwig I of Bavaria]] and [[Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen]].

==Marriage==

[[file:Mathilde von BayernStieler.png|thumb|Portrait by [[Joseph Karl Stieler]], 1830]]

On 26 December 1833 in [[Munich]], Mathilde married [[Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse|Louis of Hesse]] (1806–1877), eldest son and heir of [[Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse]] and [[Wilhelmine of Baden]].  Ludwig succeeded his father as Grand Duke Ludwig III in 1848. The marriage was childless.

==Honours==
* {{flagcountry|Restoration (Spain)}}: [[List of the Dames of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa|Dame]] of the [[Order of Queen Maria Luisa]]

==Ancestry==
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| 1 = 1. '''Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria'''
| 2 = 2. [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]]
| 3 = 3. [[Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen|Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
| 4 = 4. [[Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria]]
| 5 = 5. [[Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
| 6 = 6. [[Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]
| 7 = 7. [[Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]
| 8 = 8. [[Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]]
| 9 = 9. [[Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach]]
| 10 = 10. [[Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
| 11 = 11. [[Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg]]
| 12 = 12. [[Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]]
| 13 = 13. [[Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar|Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
| 14 = 14. [[Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]
| 15 = 15. [[Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
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==Bibliography==
* Barbara Beck: ''Mathilde,  Großherzogin von Hessen und bei Rhein, geb. Prinzessin von Bayern (1813–1862)'' (Arbeiten der Hessischen Historischen Kommission, Neue Folge, Band 7). Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-7929-0204-4

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[[Category:People from Augsburg]]
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[[Category:Daughters of kings]]
[[Category:Children of Ludwig I of Bavaria]]

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