Editing Enlightened absolutism (section)

== Associated rulers ==

<gallery align="center" heights="180" mode="packed" caption="Examples of enlightened absolutist monarchs">
File:Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1794, Hermitage).jpg|[[Catherine the Great|Catherine II of Russia]]
File:Charles III of Spain high resolution.jpg|[[Charles III of Spain]]
File:Friedrich II., König von Preußen (Frisch).jpg|[[Frederick the Great|Frederick II of Prussia]]
File:Gustav III by Alexander Roslin - no frame (Nationalmuseum, 15330).png|[[Gustav III|Gustav III of Sweden]]
File:Portrait of Joseph Emanuel, King of Portugal (1773) - Miguel António do Amaral.png|[[Joseph I of Portugal]]
File:Anton von Maron 006.png|[[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]]
File:François Gerard - Napoleon I in Coronation Robes.jpeg|[[Napoleon|Napoleon I of France]]
File:Prinz Otto von Bayern Koenig von Griechenland 1833.jpg|[[Otto of Greece]]
</gallery>

* [[Peter the Great|Peter the Great of Russia]] (1682–1725)
* [[Catherine the Great|Catherine the Great of Russia]] (1762–1796)<ref>* McKay, ''A History of Western Society'', Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 616–619 
* R. K. Massie, ''Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman'', Random House, 2012</ref>
* [[Frederick the Great|Frederick the Great of Prussia]] (1740–1786)<ref>H. M. Scott, 1990, pp. 265ff.</ref>
* [[Charles III of Spain]] (1759–1788)<ref name="H.M. Scott, 1990, p. 1">H. M. Scott, 1990, p. 1.</ref>
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] as First Consul of French Republic (1799–1804) and as Emperor of [[The First French Empire]] (1804–1814).
* [[Frederick VI of Denmark]] (1808–1839)<ref name="H. Arnold Barton 1986">H. Arnold Barton, ''Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era 1760–1815'', University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 142ff. {{ISBN|0-8166-1392-3}}.</ref>
* [[Gustav III|Gustav III of Sweden]] (1771–1792)<ref name="H. Arnold Barton 1986"/>
* [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (1765–1790)<ref name="H.M. Scott, 1990, p. 1"/>
* [[Joseph I of Portugal]] (through his minister, the [[Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal|Marquis of Pombal]]) (1750–1777)
* [[Maria Theresa]] (1740–1780)
* [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (1765–1790)<ref name="H.M. Scott, 1990, p. 1"/>
* [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|Ferdinand IV of Naples]] (1816–1825)
* [[Maria Carolina of Austria]], [[List of Neapolitan royal consorts|Queen of Naples]]<ref>Bearne, Catherine Mary (1907). ''A Sister of Marie Antoinette: The Life-Story of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples''. London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 142.</ref> [[List of Sicilian royal consorts|and Sicily]] (1768–1814)
* [[Christian VII of Denmark]] (through his minister [[Johann Friedrich Struensee]]) (1770–1772)
* [[Philip, Duke of Parma]] (through his minister [[Guillaume du Tillot]]) (1748–1765)
* [[Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena]] (1737–1780)
* [[Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena]] (1780–1796)
* [[Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia]] (1730–1773)
* [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]] (1773–1796)
* [[Otto of Greece]] (1832-1862)
* [[Mihailo Obrenović|Mihailo Obrenović III of Serbia]]  (1839–1842, 1860–1868)