Family
In 1797 he married Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden (1781–1826), with whom he had five children:
- Crown Prince Gustav, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson, Prince of Vasa (9 November 1799-1877). He served as an officer in the service of the Habsburgs of Austria, and with his wife Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, fathered a son who died in infancy, and a daughter later Queen Consort Carola of Saxony, the consort of Albert of Saxony. She in turn would die childless.
- Princess Sofia Wilhelmina (21 May 1801-1865). She married Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, and their granddaughter Victoria of Baden would marry the Bernadotte king Gustaf V of Sweden. (The present King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is thus Gustav IV's heir.)
- Prince Carl Gustaf, Grand Duke of Finland, Duke of Småland (Drottningholm, 2 December 1802 – Haga, 10 September 1805)
- Princess Amelia Maria Charlotta (Stockholm, 22 February 1805 – Vienna, 31 August 1853), unmarried and without issue
- Princess Cecilia (22 June 1807-1844), married Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
By 1812, Gustav Adolf divorced his consort and following this he had several mistresses, among them Maria Schlegel who gave him the son Adolf Gustafsson.
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