Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel
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Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel | |
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Born | Kassel | 11 September 1747
Died | 20 May 1837 Rumpenheim Castle, Kassel | (aged 89)
Spouse | |
Hesse-Cassel | |
Father | Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel |
Mother | Princess Mary of Great Britain |
Religion | Lutheranism |
Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (11 September 1747 – 20 May 1837) was a younger member of the ruling dynasty of the
He was born as the youngest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (the future
Youth
His father, the then hereditary prince (who reigned from 1760 and died in 1785) had in 1747 left the family and soon converted to
Marriage
On 2 December 1786 in Biebrich, he married Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (4 April 1762 Biebrich - 17 August 1823 Offenbach), a remarkable heiress of a family which became extinct in male line. 1781 he bought Rumpenheim Castle, Offenbach, from his brother Carl, and it became the family's seat. He became known as Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim,[2][3][4] and his descendants are known as the Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim branch of the House of Hesse, one of only two branches that survived to the present day.
Children
- Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864) and was the father of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (wife of Christian IX of Denmark).
- Karl Friedrich (9 March 1789 – 10 September 1802)
- Friedrich Wilhelm (24 April 1790 – 25 October 1876)
- Ludwig Karl (12 November 1791 – 12 May 1800)
- Georg Karl (14 January 1793 – 4 March 1881)
- Luise Karoline Marie Friederike (9 April 1794 – 16 March 1881), married Graf Georg von der Decken (1787–1859), King's Hanoverian General of the Cavalry (Germany)
- George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz(1779–1860)
- George V of the United Kingdom).
Ancestry
Ancestors of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz | | ||||||||||||||
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11. Marie Amalie of Brandenburg | |||||||||||||||
1. Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Cassel | |||||||||||||||
12. George I of Great Britain | |||||||||||||||
6. George II of Great Britain | |||||||||||||||
13. Sophia Dorothea of Celle | |||||||||||||||
3. Princess Mary of Great Britain | |||||||||||||||
14. John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach | |||||||||||||||
7. Caroline of Ansbach | |||||||||||||||
15. Eleanor Erdmuthe Louise of Saxe-Eisenach | |||||||||||||||
References
- ^ The last grandchild of George II was Karl August Ludwig (1792-1883), son of Johann Ludwig, who was one of the King's illegitimate offspring.
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- ^ "European Heraldry :: Landgraves and Electors of Hesse-Kassel". www.europeanheraldry.org. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ "The" Illustrated London News. Elm House. 1843. p. 285.
- ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 58.